- The Northern Star
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The Northern Star 
Type newspaper Format Tabloid Owner APN News & Media Editor Sue Short Founded 1876 Language English Headquarters 
Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
Media Centre, Ballina Road
Goonellabah NSW 2480Circulation 14,737 Monday-Friday
22,653 SaturdayOfficial website northernstar.com.au The Northern Star is a daily newspaper serving Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. The newspaper is owned by APN News & Media.
The Northern Star is circulated to Lismore and surrounding communities, from Billinudgel to the north, to Kyogle and Casino to the west and Evans Head to the south and includes the seaside towns of Byron Bay and Ballina.
The circulation of The Northern Star is 14,737 Monday to Friday and 22,653 on Saturday.[1] The Northern Star website is part of the APN Regional News Network.
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History
The two page first issue of The Northern Star was brought out on 13 May 1876, on the tiny Albion hand press that today holds pride of place in the foyer of the Goonellabah Media Centre. In 1955 building started on the media centre in Goonellabah, and in 1957 the move was made from the Molesworth St office.
In 1981 The Northern Star commissioned a 7unit Gross Urbanite Web Offset press capable of printing 40,000 fifty six page copies – 2.24 million pages an hour.
In 2004 the press was upgraded to twelve units with six Enkel auto reel stands, increasing the capability to 3.2 million pages an hour or 53,333 pages a minute. Colour capacity also increased from 16 to 48 pages of processed colour in one pass.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). Average Net Paid Sales for October–December 2008 (metro and larger regional titles)/January–June 2008 (other regional titles). The Northern Star also publishes The Byron Shire News, The North Coast Advocate, The Richmond River Express Examiner, The River Town Times and The Farmer Bulletin. In addition, The Northern Star runs a commercial printing business.
- ^ About us, The Northern Star. Accessed 21 March 2009.
External links
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