{{Short description|20th-century Australian newspaper}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2015}} {{Italic title}} thumb|Front page of ''The Newcastle Sun'' on 23 March 1918. '''''The Newcastle Sun''''' was a newspaper published in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It had previously been published as ''The Northern Times''.
==History== ''The Northern Times'' was first published in 1916.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kirkpatrick|first=Rod|title=Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press|year=2000|publisher=Infinite Harvest Publishing|location=Canberra|isbn=0646402706|page=204}}</ref> In 1918 the ''Times'' was purchased by Sir Hugh Denison, publisher of ''The Sun'' who changed the name to ''The Newcastle Sun''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kirkpatrick|first=Rod|title=Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press|year=2000|publisher=Infinite Harvest Publishing|location=Canberra|isbn=0646402706|page=204}}</ref> ''The Newcastle Sun'' was acquired by ''Newcastle Morning Herald'' in 1936 and continued until 1980 when it ceased publication.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kirkpatrick|first=Rod|title=Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press|year=2000|publisher=Infinite Harvest Publishing|location=Canberra|isbn=0646402706|page=340}}</ref>
A newspaper named ''The Northern Times'' (with the alternative title ''Northern Times and Newcastle Telegraph'') had previously been published in Maitland from 1857-1860.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kirkpatrick|first=Rod|title=Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press|year=2000|publisher=Infinite Harvest Publishing|location=Canberra|isbn=0646402706|page=14}}</ref><ref name="northern times">{{cite web|title=Northern times (Newcastle, N.S.W.)|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1163155~S2|website=Catalogue|publisher=State Library of NSW|access-date=4 June 2015}}</ref> The ''Northern Telegraph'' resumed publication in 1916, before being absorbed by the ''Northern Times'' in 1918.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kirkpatrick|first1=Rod|title=Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press, 1841-1995|date=2000|publisher=Infinite Harvest Publishing Pty Ltd|location=Canberra|page=339}}</ref><ref name="northern times"/>
==Digitisation== The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.<ref>{{cite web|title=Newspaper and magazine titles|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/about|work=Trove |publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=5 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Newspaper Digitisation Program|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=5 June 2013}}</ref>
==See also== * List of newspapers in Australia * List of newspapers in New South Wales
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Trove newspaper|496|Northern Times|Newcastle, NSW : 1857 - 1918}} * {{Trove newspaper|651|The Newcastle Sun|NSW : 1918 - 1954}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Newcastle Sun, The}} Category:Defunct newspapers published in New South Wales Category:1916 establishments in Australia Category:Newspapers on Trove