Daily Mercury

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Daily Mercury
Mackay-daily-mercury.svg
Type Newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) News Corp Australia
EditorHeidi Petith
Founded1866
Political alignment Centre-Left
Language English
Headquarters Mackay, Queensland, Australia
Level 1, 47 Gordon Street
Mackay QLD 4740
Circulation 16,045 Monday-Friday
19,839 Saturday
Website www.dailymercury.com.au OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Front page of the Daily Mercury, 31 January 1906 Daily.Mercury.31.01.1906.jpg
Front page of the Daily Mercury, 31 January 1906

The Daily Mercury is an online newspaper which serves the Mackay region in Queensland, Australia. [1] Print edition was later revived with a publication on Friday only.

Contents

The newspaper is printed by Mackay Printing and Publishing and is owned by News Corp Australia. [2]

History

The Daily Mercury ran from 1866 to 1905 as the Mackay Mercury and South Kennedy Advertiser. From 1887 the paper was issued under the name Mackay Mercury until 1906 when the Daily Chronicle was absorbed by the paper and it was renamed the Daily Mercury. [3]

Along with many other regional Australian newspapers owned by NewsCorp, the Daily Mercury ceased print editions in June 2020 and became online-only publication. [4] The print edition was revived in late August, 2021 as a weekly, Friday-only edition.

Editors

Digitisation

The papers have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia. [8] [9]

See also

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