Type Weekly newspaper Owner(s) Navoc Pty. Limited Editor Michael Keenan | Format Tabloid Publisher Navoc Pty. Limited Founded 1887 | |
The Western Herald is a print newspaper, published in Bourke, New South Wales, Australia. It services the town of Bourke and surrounding districts. The current cover price is $1.70.
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History
The Western Herald was first published in 1887. The founding editor of the newspaper was Edward Davis Millen. Philip Chapman was taken into partnership around 1889, and was editor until 1918, when the newspaper was purchased by brothers Archibald and Samuel Carmichael. In the 1930s the partnership became Carmichael & Son, with Archibald and his son Lester. Lester's son Dal took over in the early 1970s. The Carmichael and Son partnership ended in 1997. The newspaper is now owned by Navoc Pty. Limited.
The paper was originally printed on broadsheet, changing to the tabloid format with the issue of 1 February 1974, due to "stress created by the Darling River flood, lack of the usual amount of advertising and, once again, that inevitable staff shortage".
The Western Herald currently occupies the building that was originally the Good Templars' Temperance Hall, one of the oldest surviving buildings in Bourke.
Digitisation
The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.