Type Newspaper Owner(s) APN News & Media Founded 1867 | Format Tabloid Editor Rowan Hunnam Language English | |
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The Daily Mercury is the only daily newspaper serving the Mackay region in Queensland, Australia and is published Monday to Saturday. The newspaper is printed by Mackay Printing and Publishing, part of APN News & Media.
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The circulation of the Daily Mercury is 16,045 Monday to Friday and 19,839 on Saturday.
History
The Daily Mercury ran from 1867 to 1905 as the Mackay Mercury and South Kennedy Advertiser. From 1887 the paper was issued under the name Mackay Mercury until 1906 when the Daily Chronicle was absorbed by the paper and it was renamed the Daily Mercury.
Digitisation
The papers have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.
References
Daily Mercury Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA