- The Examiner (Tasmania)
"The Examiner" is the daily newspaper of the city of Launceston and north-eastern
Tasmania ,Australia .Overview
"The Examiner" was first published on
12 March 1842 , founded byJames Aikenhead . Its first editor was theReverend John West . At first it was a weekly publication (Saturdays). The Examiner expanded to Wednesdays six months later. In 1853, the paper was changed to tri-weekly (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays), and first began daily publication on21 December 1877 . "The Sunday Examiner" began publication in 1984.Once owned by
ENT Limited , "The Examiner" is now owned by theRural Press group.In 2005, it won the "Media Watch" (
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ) prize entitled, theCampbell Reid Perpetual Trophy for the Brazen Recycling of Other People's Work, for its four pages, including the front page, of completely copied material from a joint Gunn's and Tasmanian Government advertising feature put together to promote the proposed pulp mill at Longreach. The paper also failed to mention any alternative view points in its four page special. The award is more commonly known as "The Barra".The newspaper is warmly referred to as "The Exaggerator" by local readership.
Famous former staff include respected TV and radio journalist Charles Woolley, cross-media sport aficionado Mark Wilton and ZOO Weekly sub-editor and political satirist Luke Edmunds.
The current editor is Fiona Reynolds, who was appointed in May 2008.
See also
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List of newspapers in Australia External links
* [http://www.examiner.com.au The Examiner online]
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