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Quest Community Newspapers is a newspaper company in Stafford, Queensland, Australia. It is owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
It currently publishes weekly tabloids, and one bi-weekly, providing news coverage predominately for the greater Brisbane area. In total, there are 20 free suburban newspapers, one news magazine (City News) and one gloss lifestyle magazine based on the Sunshine Coast, The Weekender distributed to households and businesses throughout South East Queensland.
Its head office is at the corner of Shand and Byth Streets, Stafford, Queensland.
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Collectively Quest Community Newspapers cover an area stretching from the Noosa in the north to the borders of the Gold Coast in the south, providing coverage of key suburbs in Brisbane for more than 1,000,000 readers weekly.
The full list of titles are:
- Albert and Logan News - the only bi-weekly newspaper in the group, it publishes every Wednesday and Friday
- Caboolture Shire Herald
- City News
- City North News
- City South News
- Ipswich News
- Logan West Leader
- Noosa Journal
- North-West News
- Northern Times
- Northside Chronicle
- Pine River Press
- Redcliffe & Bayside Herald
- South-East Advertiser
- Southern Star
- South-West News
- Springfield News
- Westside News
- Wynnum Herald
- Maroochy Journal
- Caloundra Journal
All Quest titles feature regular sections such as Motoring, Sport, Property and Entertainment as well as local news and issues. In 2003 and again in 2010 the group undertook a major redesign of all the newspapers to improve the ease with which its newspapers can be read.
The Quest Newspaper Group was formed in July 1985 through an amalgamation of established weekly free-distribution newspapers across Brisbane.
External links
Quest News website
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See also List of assets owned by News CorporationCategories:- Newspapers published in Queensland
- Weekly newspapers published in Australia
- Companies of Queensland
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