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Greymouth Star

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Format
  
Broadsheet

Founded
  
1866

Circulation
  
4,333

Owner(s)
  
Allied Press

Headquarters
  
Greymouth, New Zealand

Type
  
Daily (except Sunday) newspaper

The Greymouth Star, formerly the Greymouth Evening Star is a daily newspaper published in Greymouth and circulated in Westland, New Zealand from Westport to Haast. It is New Zealand's sixth oldest daily newspaper and was founded by James Snyder Browne as a four-page daily on March 18, 1866. The newspaper celebrated 125 years in 1991 and in the same year Dunedin media company Allied Press purchased a majority shareholding.

Sister publications

  • West Coast Times: Monday to Friday morning newspaper in Hokitika, first published in 1865.
  • The West Coast Messenger: a free newspaper printed every Wednesday and distributed throughout Westland between Karamea, Haast and Murchison.

    • References

    Greymouth Star Wikipedia
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