{{Short description|Defunct Adelaide, South Australian afternoon tabloid newspaper}} {{Italic title|''The News'' (Adelaide)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2015}}
'''''The News''''' was an afternoon daily tabloid newspaper in the city of Adelaide, South Australia, that had its origins in 1869, and ceased circulation in 1992. Through much of the 20th century, ''The Advertiser'' was Adelaide's morning broadsheet, ''The News'' the afternoon tabloid, with ''The Sunday Mail'' covering weekend sport, and ''Messenger Newspapers'' community news.
Its former names were '''''The Evening Journal''''' (1869–1912) and '''''The Journal''''' (1912–1923), with the Saturday edition called '''''The Saturday Journal''''' until 1929.
== History == === ''The Evening Journal'' === ''The News'' began as ''The Evening Journal'', with [http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/22386632 Vol. I No. I] issued on 2 January 1869. From 11 September 1912 ([http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/22427901 Vol. XLVI No. 12,906]), it was renamed ''The Journal.''
News Limited was established in 1923 by James Edward Davidson, when he purchased the Broken Hill ''Barrier Miner'' and the Port Pirie ''Recorder''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90061205|title=Prominent Journalist|date=5 June 1930|newspaper=The Chronicle|access-date=7 June 2013|publisher=National Library of Australia|location=Adelaide|page=18}}</ref> He then went on to purchase ''The Journal'' and Adelaide's weekly sports-focussed ''Mail'' in May 1923.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63775540|title=The Mail|date=24 March 1923|newspaper=The Mail|access-date=7 June 2013|publisher=National Library of Australia|location=Adelaide|page=2}}</ref>
===''The News''=== On 24 July 1923, ''The Journal'' was renamed ''The News'' (restarting at Volume 1, Issue 1),<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/boland/eventOz1923.htm|title=Australian Events in the News|website=www.slsa.sa.gov.au|access-date=2018-02-15}}</ref> with the Saturday edition being retained as ''The Saturday Journal'' (which continued to be published until 1929). In 1923, the new newspaper had a circulation of 30,000, and by 1953, it had a daily readership of 106,000.<ref name=":1" /> In early 1948, the regular format was changed from broadsheet to tabloid.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=2627|title=SA Memory|website=www.samemory.sa.gov.au|access-date=2018-02-15}}</ref>
In 1933, a controlling stake was taken by ''The Advertiser'' and managed by ''The Herald and Weekly Times''. ''HWT'' sold off its stake in 1949, allowing Sir Keith Murdoch to acquire a major interest in the company<ref>{{cite book|title=The Transnational Media Corporation: Global Messages and Free Market Competition|author=Gershon, Richard A.|publisher=Routledge|year=1996|isbn=0-8058-2425-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/transnationalmed0000gers/page/226 226]|type=paperback|url=https://archive.org/details/transnationalmed0000gers/page/226}}</ref> and to assume control of the paper in 1951. ''The News'' became the main asset passed upon his death in 1952 to his son Rupert Murdoch. It was the latter's first media interest and commenced the foundation of what was to become the international media conglomerate, News Corporation. On 6 February 1954, ''The Mail'' was renamed ''SA Sunday Mail'' and then ''Sunday Mail'' in 1955. On 28 August 1976, the final Saturday issue of ''The News'' was published.<ref name=":1" />
Murdoch later acquired the city's other local newspaper, the morning daily broadsheet, ''The Advertiser,'' in 1987.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122119582|title=News Corp moves to 'tie up a few loose ends'|date=1987-09-02|work=Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995)|access-date=2018-02-15|pages=30}}</ref> Murdoch sold ''The News'' that year to Northern Star Holdings,<ref name=":1" /> and many of its journalists moved to ''The Advertiser''. However, in the face of continuing losses brought about by the competition of television and the decline of use of public transport and given the more prominent existence of ''The Advertiser,'' ''The News'' (then Australia’s last evening newspaper) was stopped on 27 March 1992.<ref name=":0" />
==See also== * List of newspapers in Australia
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=2627 History of ''The News'' newspaper from State Library of South Australia] * {{trove newspaper|461|The News|Adelaide, SA : 1923-1954}}
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