Peter Isaacson. Proprietor 1977-1989
Friday, July 1, 1977
Victorian publisher Peter Isaacson purchased the Sunday Observer newspaper in 1977. At the start of the newspaper’s life in September 1969, Isaacson (along with Progress Press and Waverley Offset Printers) had been a contract printer of the Observer under the proprietorships of Gordon Barton and Maxwell Newton, until each of them took possession of their own presses.