{{Short description|Newspaper in Grafton, New South Wales}} {{for|the newspaper published in Yorkshire, England|Huddersfield Daily Examiner}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Daily Examiner | logo = GraftonDailyExaminer.svg | type = Newspaper | format = Tabloid | founded = 1859 | owners = News Corp | publisher = | headquarters = Grafton, New South Wales, Australia<BR/>55 Fitzroy St | editor = Bill North | language = English | circulation = 5,571 Monday–Friday<br/>6,446 Saturday | ISSN = | website = [https://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/ dailyexaminer.com.au] }}
'''''The Daily Examiner''''' is a daily newspaper serving Grafton, New South Wales, Australia. The newspaper is owned by News Corp Australia. At various times the newspaper was known as ''The Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser'' (1859–1889) and ''Clarence and Richmond Examiner'' (1889–1915).
''The Daily Examiner'' is circulated to Grafton, the Clarence Valley and surrounding areas from Woody Head in the north to Red Rock in the south.
The circulation of ''The Daily Examiner'' is 5,571 Monday to Friday and 6,446 on Saturday.<ref>[http://www.auditbureau.org.au/ Audit Bureau of Circulations] (ABC). Average Net Paid Sales for October–December 2008 (metro and larger regional titles)/January–June 2008 (other regional titles).</ref>
A major redesign of ''The Daily Examiner'' was highly commended in the PANPA 2002 Newspaper of the Year Awards for dailies and Sundays up to 20,000.<ref name="About us">[http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/aboutus/ About us], ''The Daily Examiner''. Accessed 22 March 2009.</ref> ''The Daily Examiner'' was also awarded PANPA Newspaper of the Year 0 to 20,000 copies in 2009 for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific and 2010 APN Newspaper of the year<ref name=contact>[http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/contactus/ Contact us], ''The Daily Examiner''. Accessed 22 March 2009.</ref>
''The Daily Examiner'' website is part of the APN Regional News Network.
==History== thumb|''Clarence & Richmond Examiner'' title page, 26 July 1859 ''The Clarence and Richmond Examiner'' was ostensibly launched in 1859 by William Edward Vincent.<ref>{{DNZB|Coleridge|Kathleen A.|1v2|William Edward Vincent|13 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=''Clarence and Richmond Examiner''|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title104|publisher=Trove newspaper digitisation project|access-date=28 November 2012}}</ref> However, the power behind the throne was wealthy politician Clark Irving, an opponent of the separation of the Northern Rivers from the colony of New South Wales.<ref>Louise Tiffany Daley, ''Men and a River: Richmond River District 1828–1895'', 2nd ed. (Lismore: Richmond River Historical Society, 2011 [1966]), 78–79.</ref> In 1861 it was purchased by Richard Stevenson for £600.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article236147851 |title=Mr. Richard Stevenson |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=28 July 1894 |access-date=17 May 2021 |page=5 |via=Trove}}</ref> In 1875 it was purchased by James Gray and James McNaughton.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18793669 |title=The Clarence and Richmond Examiner |newspaper=The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser |date=13 April 1875 |accessdate=17 May 2021 |page=3 |via=Trove}}</ref>
Grafton generally had three or more newspapers from 1874 into the new century when the tri-weekly ''Clarence and Richmond Examiner'' was converted into a daily on 1 July 1915, "to keep public issues constantly before the minds of the people".
Grafton has had a succession of long-serving editors who won renown for their editorial leadership in community affairs, most notably Cecil Bush Bailey (1886–1944), William Bailey-Tart (1944–1960) and John Irvine Moorhead (1960–1977).
Grafton surgeon Earle Page, later a caretaker Prime Minister, was a major boardroom influence on ''The Examiner'' as it continued to champion the New England New State proposal, a hydro-electric scheme on the Nymboida River, and a deep-sea port plan for Iluka.
Editors who have had the stewardship of the paper in the era of modern technological advancement include Geoff Orchison, Robert Milne and Peter Ellem, who has campaigned for a second Grafton bridge crossing, an ambulance station/health clinic in Yamba, and improvements to the Pacific Highway.<ref name="About us"/>
''The Examiner'' continued its groundbreaking role in 1981, by appointing Lauretta Godbee as the first female editor of an Australian daily newspaper.{{Citation needed|date=February 2018}} The current editor is Bill North.<ref name=contact />
Along with many other regional Australian newspapers owned by NewsCorp, the newspaper ceased print editions in June 2020 and became online-only publication.<ref>{{Cite web|date=28 May 2020|title=Future is digital: News announces major changes|url=https://www.gattonstar.com.au/news/future-digital-news-announces-major-changes/4025188/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222032551/https://www.gattonstar.com.au/news/future-digital-news-announces-major-changes/4025188/|archive-date=2020-12-22|access-date=2020-12-22|website=Gatton Star|language=en}}</ref>
==Digitisation== The various versions of the paper have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project hosted by the National Library of Australia.<ref>{{cite web|title=Newspaper Digitisation Program|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=17 May 2013|archive-date=2 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702090621/http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Brown>{{cite journal|last=Brown|first=Jerelynn|title=Tabloids in the State Library of NSW collection: A reflection of life in Australia|journal=Australian Journal of Communication|year=2011|volume=38|issue=2|pages=107–121<!-- |access-date=4 July 2013 -->}}</ref>
== See also == * List of newspapers in Australia * List of newspapers in New South Wales
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{official website|https://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/}} * {{trove newspaper|104|Clarence and Richmond Examiner|Grafton, NSW : 1859}} * {{trove newspaper|65|Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser|Grafton, NSW : 1859–1889}} * {{trove newspaper|64|Clarence and Richmond Examiner|Grafton, NSW : 1889–1915}} * [http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/1005 ''Daily Examiner'' (Grafton, NSW : 1915–1954)] at Trove
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