The Flinders News


The Flinders News is a weekly newspaper published in Port Pirie, South Australia, formed from the historic mergers of multiple Mid-North publications and representing a combined ancestry of 12 former publications. Its earliest constituent publication, the Northern Mail, was first issued on 30 June 1876, and the newspaper has been published under its current title since 1989. Like many rural Australian publications, it is now part of the Fairfax Media group.

History

The Flinders News originated with the historical mergers of several struggling mid-northern newspapers in 1948, 1970, and 1977:

Northern Review

The Northern Review was created in 1948 by the merger of:
The Review-Times was created in 1970 by the merger of:
The Review-Times-Record was created in 1977 by the merger of:
In 1989, the title of the Review-Times-Record was changed to its current title, The Flinders News. It is now part of the Fairfax Media group.

Distribution

The Flinders News is distributed throughout the mid-north region of South Australia, northern Yorke Peninsula, the Far North, Port Pirie, and Port Augusta, and had a claimed readership of 24,000. Like other Farfax Media, the newspaper is also available online.

Awards

Recently, the Flinders News won an award at the nationwide Fairfax Regional Media Awards for best co-op as well as placing runner-up in best feature and sales team of the year.

Digitisation

carries images and text versions of the newspaper from 1911 to 1950, accessible using Trove, the on-line newspaper retrieval service.