The Tweed Daily News is a daily newspaper

Newspaper

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 serving Tweed Heads, New South Wales

Tweed Heads, New South Wales

Tweed Heads is a town located on the Tweed River in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia in Tweed Shire. Tweed Heads is located next to the border with Queensland, adjacent to the "Twin Town" of Coolangatta, a suburb of the Gold Coast...

 area of Australia. The newspaper is part of the Tweed Newspaper Company Pty Ltd and is owned by APN News & Media

APN News & Media

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The Tweed Daily News is circulated to the Tweed Shire community stretching from Palm Beach, Queensland

Palm Beach, Queensland

Palm Beach is a suburb on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, between Tallebudgera Creek and Currumbin Creek. At the 2006 Census, Palm Beach had a population of 13,494....

, south to Pottsville, New South Wales

Pottsville, New South Wales

Pottsville is a town in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia in Tweed Shire. At the 2006 census, Pottsville had a population of 3,298.Bill Potts owned the first house in Pottsville around 1930 and the location was initially named Potts Point...

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The circulation of the Tweed Daily News is 4,572 Monday to Friday and 5,144 on Saturday.

The Tweed Daily News website is part of the APN Regional News Network

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History

The Tweed Daily News started life in 1888 as the Tweed and Brunswick Advocate and the South Queensland Record made its appearance at the end of October 1888.

The paper was started by William Robert Baker who had worked on newspapers in the Grafton District. Mr Baker and his two apprentices Norman MacKinon and James McLeod set about producing the paper that was the forerunner to today's Tweed Daily News.

The paper started as a weekly paper, then a bi-weekly, and over the years changed names, owners and formats several times. However, on the first day of January in 1914, the bi-weekly papers were combined to introduce the district's first daily newspaper - The Tweed Daily.

After the early days of patiently setting every letter by hand, The Tweed Daily took a major step forward in 1970 when it became the second daily newspaper in Australia to install an offset printing

Offset printing

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 press. Nowadays publishing is done on a computer system and the company's papers are printed at sister sites in Ballina

Ballina, New South Wales

Ballina is a town on the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia, and the seat of the Ballina Shire Local Government Area. It had a population of 16,477 in the 2006 Census.-Location:...

 and Yandina

Yandina, Queensland

Yandina is a Sunshine Coast hinterland town just off the Bruce Highway. Its name comes from 'yan', meaning "to go", and 'dinna', meaning "feet". At the 2006 census, Yandina had a population of 1,075....

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