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'The National Times features the best in analysis, commentary and opinion from Fairfax Media's established print and online mastheads, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, brisbanetimes.com.au, watoday.com.au - and more than 160 of our rural and regional titles across Australia. The website is also home to an expert team of contributors and bloggers - breaking views on matters ranging from arts to politics, religion to sport, cinema and philosophy as and when news happens.

'The site is dedicated to promoting the best in Australian journalism: words, images and art. It also seeks out opinions and articles from our readers and encourages debate and discussion.'

The online news service is a re-launch of the 1970s-1980s newspaper, the National Times.

Source: Age, 13/06/2009, National Times, 14/09/2009
Sighted: 15/06/2009, 14/09/2009

'The Age's subscriber newsletter, The Age Extra is a quarterly publication for Age readers that provides information about our leading journalists, products and subscriber benefits. It also provides news about developments at The Age, goes behind the scenes for a look at how we operate, and offers an insight into how we contribute to the Victorian community through our association with key events.'

Source: Age website, http://about.theage.com.au/
Sighted: 16/03/2010

The Bombala Times has been published by various companies since the 1860s. Details of the paper's owenership up until the late-1930s is yet to be ascertained.

In 1938 it was acquired by Reg Johnson, formerly the owner of a newspaper in nearby Candelo. His sons, Wilbur ('Jock') and Reginald ('Jerry') were involved in the paper's operations from the early days (apart from the time they spent in active service during World War II) and made partners in 1959. Following Reg Johnson's death in 1966 Wilbur took over the position of editor, and continued in that capacity until the newspaper was sold to Jeff and Janine Bradley in 1985.

The Bradley's operated the Bombala Times only brielfy, selling it to Macquarie Publications in 1987. It became part of the Rural Press stable when that company boght out Macquarie Publications in 1995. It has been published by Fairfax Media since 2007.

A supplement to the Age newspaper, the Melbourne Magazine was originally published on the last Friday of each month in hardcopy form. The magazine was later published in digital format but with the same frequency.

The Newcastle Herald is a regional newspaper published in Newcastle, New South Wales (the largest non-capital city in Australia). The only local newspaper to serve the greater Hunter Region and Central Coast region six days a week, it was published as a broadsheet until 1998. In making its move to the tabloid format the paper played a key role in pioneering the trend by Australian newspapers to reduce their size.

The Newcastle Herald was first published under that title on 6 October 1980 when the words 'Morning' and 'Miners Advocate' were removed from its former title, the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (1876-1980). That paper was itself the result of a merger in 1876 between the Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News (1858-1876) and the Miners' Advocate and Northumberland Recorder (1873-1876).

Although the Herald's publisher between 1980 and 2003 is recorded as being Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate Pty. Ltd, that company was established in 1980 by Sydney-based John Fairfax Holdings (presumably to maintain the paper's 'local' integrity). The Fairfax company had actually acquired the paper (as The Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate) from John Miller Sweet's company in 1977. The Newcastle Herald has since been published by John Fairfax Holdings (2003-2007) and Fairfax Media (2007-).