Community Newspaper Group

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The Community Newspaper Group was a community newspaper business in Perth, Western Australia. It was owned by Seven West Media and formerly published 23 community newspapers within the metropolitan region of Perth, ranging from Yanchep and Two Rocks in the city's north to Mandurah in the south.

In June 2021 Seven West Media decided to retire most of its Community Newspaper Group-branded newspapers and replace them with 10 localised editions under the PerthNow brand.[1]

Publications[]

The Community Newspaper Group's papers included:[2]

City and western suburbs[]

  • Eastern Reporter
  • Guardian Express
  • Stirling Times
  • Western Suburbs Weekly

Hills and eastern suburbs[]

  • Avon Valley Gazette
  • Comment News
  • Hills Gazette
  • Kalamunda Reporter
  • Midland Reporter
  • The Advocate

Northern suburbs[]

  • Joondalup Times
  • North Coast Times
  • Wanneroo Times
  • Weekender

Southern suburbs[]

  • Canning Times
  • Cockburn Gazette
  • Fremantle Gazette
  • Melville Times
  • Southern Gazette

South coastal suburbs[]

  • Kwinana Courier
  • Pinjarra Murray Times
  • Weekend Courier

The Mandurah Coastal Times and the Sound Telegraph, covering Rockingham and the Peel region respectively, continue to be published under those names without the PerthNow branding.[1]

Digital editions[]

In 2018 the Community Newspaper Group closed a number of newspapers and shifted their publication online, claiming that "publishing these printed publications is not sustainable".[3] These digital mastheads were made available on communitynews.com.au and included:

  • Comment News
  • Guardian Express
  • Ellenbrook/Swan Valley Advocate
  • Hills/Avon Valley Gazette
  • Midland/Kalamunda Reporter
  • North Coast Times
  • Weekend/Kwinana Courier

In April 2020 Community Newspaper Group transferred all its newspaper websites to the PerthNow website.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Seven West Media to retire Community Newspaper Group brand, relaunching as free PerthNow newspapers". PerthNow. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  2. ^ "CommunityNews". CommunityNews. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  3. ^ Emma Young & Hamish Hastie. "Perth media diversity takes next hit as five community newspapers shut". WAToday. Retrieved 30 November 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

Further reading[]

  • (2001) Community Newspapers ride high on PANPA success. (Executives at Community Newspaper Group give reasons for the company's success, after one of its free newspapers, Weekend Courier Community was voted the best free non-daily newspaper for the Australian and Pacific Region). Campaign brief (1999), Oct. 2001, p. 20-21

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