The Tweed Daily was a daily English language newspaper published in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia from 1914 to 1949.[1] It was also published as the Tweed and Brunswick Advocate and Southern Queensland Record,[2]Tweed and Brunswick Advocate,[3]Tweed Times and Brunswick Advocate,[4]Tweed Herald and Brunswick Chronicle,[5]Tweed and South Coast Daily,[6]The Daily News,[7][8]Tweed and Gold Coast Daily News,[9] and the Tweed Daily News.[10][11]
History
The first edition of the Tweed and Brunswick Advocate and Southern Queensland Record was published by William Robert Baker on 31 October 1888.[2] On 13 May 1903, it was renamed the Tweed and Brunswick Advocate, published by John William Kilner.[3] On 26 July 1905, publisher P.W. Tarlinton renamed it the Tweed Times and Brunswick Advocate, also known as the Tweed Times.[4] In July 1893 George Niklin started publishing the Tweed Herald and Brunswick Chronicle, also known as the Tweed Herald.[12] On 1 January 1914, the first edition of The Tweed Daily was published; this incorporated the Tweed Herald and the Tweed Times.[12]
The Tweed Daily was replaced by the Tweed and South Coast Daily on 18 April 1949,[6] which was then continued by The Daily News, on 1 July 1957, with W.T.K Baird as publisher.[7] On 1 November 1986, the Tweed Newspaper Company commenced publication of the Tweed and Gold Coast Daily News, which split into the Tweed Daily News and the Gold Coast News in 1989.[9] The Tweed Daily News changed its name to the Daily News in 1993,[8] then to the Tweed Daily News in 2007.[13] In 2011 it changed back to the Daily News, also published as the Daily News: Tweed, Murwillumbah and Southern Gold Coast.[14] In 2014, the name changed to the Tweed Daily News and it became available online.[11]