The Northern Territory News is a morning tabloid newspaper

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 based in Darwin

Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...

, Australia

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. It is a subsidiary of News Limited

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, owned by Rupert Murdoch

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's News Corporation

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. It primarily serves Darwin and the rest of the Northern Territory. It covers local, national, and world news as well as sports and business.

The paper currently has a Monday to Friday readership average of 47,000, reaching an average of 55,000 on Saturdays.

News Limited also publishes its local counterpart, The Sunday Territorian, which is also available throughout Darwin and the Northern Territory.

History

The first edition of the Northern Territory News was published on February 8, 1952, as a weekly tabloid, then twice weekly, building up to five days a week in 1964. In February 1975 publication reverted to five afternoons a week. The Saturday edition started again in 1979 and now all six papers are morning dailies. The paper was founded as a counter-balance to perceived pro-communist bias from the territories only newspaper at the time the trade union

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 owned Northern Standard which soon folded. Originally the paper was quite politically active being a noted advocate of greater self-governance powers for the Northern Territory

Northern Territory

The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...

as well as being vocal on a number of other local issues. However the paper gradually lapsed into the current a-political stance it maintains presently with its most noted feature being its often colorful headlines and front pages.

External links

• Official website
• medianet sections and liftouts
• http://newsmedianet.com.au/home/titles/title/index.jsp?titleid=14 News medianet]