{{Use Australian English|date=March 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Armidale Express | owner = <!-- or |owners= --> | founder = <!-- or |founders= --> | publisher = | president = | editor = | chief_editor = | deputy_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = | general_manager = | news_editor = | founded = 1856 | headquarters = 115 Faulkner Street, Armidale NSW<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.armidaleexpress.com.au/contact/|title=Contact Us|publisher=the Armidale Express|access-date=28 December 2016}}</ref> | circulation = | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = | readership = | website = {{URL|armidaleexpress.com.au}} }}
The '''''Armidale Express''''' is a newspaper published in Armidale, a city in the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales.
Its frequency is weekly. The Express is read by approximately 5,000 readers in Armidale, Uralla, Guyra and Walcha areas.<ref name=AboutUs/>
== History == It began publication as ''The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser'' from 1856 to 1929<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1157557~S2|title = The Armidale express and New England general advertiser.|access-date = 6 February 2015|website = State Library of NSW Catalogue}}</ref> and its frequency at the time was bi-weekly.<ref name=kirkpatrick>{{Cite book|title = Country conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press, 1841-1995|last = Kirkpatrick|first = Rod|publisher = Infinite Harvest Publishing|year = 2000|isbn = 0646402706|location = Canberra, ACT.}}</ref> William Hipgrave and Walter Craigie established the newspaper and were the first editors, using the ''Express'' to promote their political views. They briefly sold the paper to Owen Gorman in 1858, but regained ownership in 1859. Editorials for the ''Express'' in the 1890s initially opposed moves towards Federation.<ref name="kirkpatrick"/>
In 1929, the title was changed to ''The Armidale Express'' in 1929 and it remains in publication under that masthead.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Armidale Express|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1562843~S2|website=Catalogue|publisher=State Library of NSW|access-date=11 March 2015}}</ref> Its circulation increased from 2,673 in 1950 to 4,394 in 1970.<ref name="kirkpatrick"/> It has absorbed three other local newspapers since 1929: the ''Armidale Chronicle'' in 1929,<ref>{{cite web|title=The Armidale Chronicle|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1170561~S2|website=Catalogue|publisher=State Library of NSW|access-date=11 March 2015}}</ref> the ''Uralla Times'' in 1983,<ref>{{cite web|title=Uralla Times|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1162329~S2|website=Catalogue|publisher=State Library of NSW|access-date=11 March 2015}}</ref> and the ''New Englander'' in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|title=New Englander|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1562734~S2|website=Catalogue|publisher=State Library of NSW|access-date=11 March 2015}}</ref>
An arm, ''The Armidale Express Extra'', was established in 1999 and won the top prize for journalism at the 2000 Country Press Association NSW Awards.<ref name=AboutUs>{{Cite web|url = http://www.armidaleexpress.com.au/about-us/|title = About us - The Armidale Express|access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref>
== Digitisation == Some editions of ''The Armidale Chronicle'' and ''The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser'' have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.
== See also == * List of newspapers in New South Wales * List of newspapers in Australia
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.armidaleexpress.com.au/ Armidale Express online] * {{Trove newspaper|983|The Armidale Chronicle|NSW : 1894 - 1929}} * {{Trove newspaper|985|The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser|NSW : 1856 - 1861; 1863 - 1889; 1891 - 1954}}
Category:Newspapers published in New South Wales Category:New England (New South Wales) Category:Newspapers on Trove