- Portside Messenger
Infobox Newspaper
name =
type = Weekly suburbannewspaper
format =Tabloid
foundation = 1951
owners =News Limited
headquarters = flagicon|AUS 1 Baynes Place,Port Adelaide , SA,Australia
editor = Megan Lloyd
staff = Adam Todd
website = [http://www.messengerwest.com.au www.messengerwest.com.au]"Portside Messenger" is a weekly suburban
newspaper inAdelaide , part of theMessenger Newspapers group. The "Portside" covers the entire Le Fevre Peninsula, taking in Adelaide's northern metropolitan beach suburbs, and all of Port Adelaide. [News Limited Community Newspapers [http://www.community.newsmedianet.com.au/home/groups/group/title.jsp?titleid=76] ]The newspaper generally reports on events of interest in its distribution area, including the suburbs of
Port Adelaide , Semaphore,Outer Harbor andWest Lakes . It also covers theCity of Port Adelaide Enfield andCity of Charles Sturt councils.It has a circulation of 32,562 and a readership of 53,000. [Roy Morgan March 2007 [http://www.community.newsmedianet.com.au/home/groups/group/title.jsp?titleid=76] ]
History
In 1951, Port Adelaide courier Roger Baynes, in partnership with Len Croker, took over the Largs North Progressive Association's "Progressive Times". In March 1951, the "Progressive Times" was relaunched as the "Messenger".
The "Messenger" originally operated out of a small room above a Port Adelaide bicycle shop. The business later moved to an old butcher's shop on Commercial Road, Port Adelaide.
Baynes acquired more suburban titles across Adelaide during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and rebranded them under the "Messenger" name. The original "Messenger" was renamed the "Portside Messenger" in 1984. [State Library of uth Australia [http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=2702] ] [Adelaide 20th Century newspapers [http://www.jaunay.com/newspapersadelaide2.html] ]
ee also
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Messenger Newspapers References
External links
* [http://www.messengernews.com.au/ Messenger Newspapers]
* [http://www.messengerwest.com.au/ Portside Messenger]
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