List of newspapers in Tasmania

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This is a list of newspapers published in Tasmania in Australia through its history. From the founding as Van Dieman's Land, through the establishment of the Colony of Tasmania to the creation of a state of Australia as Tasmania in 1901 to the present day.

NewspaperTown / suburbYears of publication
Advertiser [1] Hobart1837–1840
Advertiser: incorporating "Kingborough news"Kingston1964
Advocate [2] Burnie1919–current
Auction Mart Advertiser and Commercial RegisterLaunceston1863
Australasian Friend [3] Hobart1887–?
Bagdad NewsBagdad1899–?
Bagdad NewsBagdad1997–1999
Bayside Village NewsSandy Bay2002–2006
Bell's life in Tasmania a sporting chronicle, agricultural gazette, and country journal [4] Hobart1859
Bent's News and Tasmanian Three-penny RegisterHobart1836–1837
Binalong Bay BulletinBinalong Bay1986–1989
Bothwell BannerBothwell1994
Bothwell BitsBothwell1983–1986
Bowen GazetteRisdon Vale1983–1984
Brighton Community News [5] Brighton1999-current
Britannia and Trades AdvocateHobart1846–1851
Bruny News [6] Bruny Island1980-current
BugleLaunceston2007
Burnie City NewsBurnie1994–1997
Campbell Town ChronicleCampbell Town1993–1996
Cape Country CourierSmithton1991–1993
Cape Country IndependentWynyard2007–2008
Catholic MagazineHobart1916–1918
Catholic Standard [7] Hobart1878–1894
Catholic Standard [8] Hobart1921–1937
Central Coast CourierOrford1991–current
Central Coast TimesBurnie2005–2007
Chigwell Claremont Free PressBerridale1986–1987
Church NewsHobart1960–1995
Church News for the Diocese of TasmaniaHobart1862–1959
Circular Head Chronicle [9] Smithton1906-2024 [10]
Clipper Hobart1893–1909
Coal River NewsRichmond1988–1995
Coastal IndependentWynyard2008
Coastal News and North Western AdvertiserUlverstone1890–1893
Coastal TimesBurnie2008–2009
Collinsvale CrierCollinsvale1981–1996, 2002–2003
Colonial Advocate and Tasmanian Monthly Review and RegisterHobart1828
Colonial Morning Advertiser and Colonial Maritime JournalHobart1841–?
Colonial Times and Tasmanian AdvertiserHobart1825–1827
Colonial Times Hobart1828–1857
ColonistLaunceston1888–1891
Colonist and the Van Diemen's Land Commercial and Agricultural AdvertiserHobart1832–1834
Cornwall AdvertiserLaunceston1855?–1877
Cornwall Chronicle Launceston1869–1871
Cornwall Chronicle: commercial, agricultural, and naval registerLaunceston1835–1880
Cornwell Press and Commercial AdvertiserLaunceston1829
Country CourierLongford1998–current
CourierHobart1840–1859
CourierGeorge Town1961–1964
Cove ClarionHobart1998–2000
CriticHobart1904–1929
CriticHobart1892–1893
Cygnet, Huon & Channel ClassifiedsCygnet1986-current
Daily Post [11] Hobart1908–1918
Daily Telegraph Launceston1883–1928
Day StarHobart1886–1893?
Derby EchoDerby1978–2000
Derwent ClipperHobart1977–1978
Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land IntelligencerHobart1810–1812
Derwent Valley Gazette (titled The Gazette from 2000 to 2017) [12] [13] New Norfolk1953–2024
Derwent Valley and Moonah NewsMoonah and New Norfolk1954
Devon Country TimesDevonport1985–1990
Devon Herald, a bi-weekly journal of agriculture, politics and commerceLatrobe1877–1889
Devon NewsDevonport1962–1965
Devonport TimesDevonport1998–2012
East Coast BulletinSt. Helens1989–1990
Eastern NewsBridport1970–1972
Eastern Shore SpotlightRosny Park1984
Eastern Shore Sun [14] Rosny1988-current
Emu Bay Times and North West & West Coast AdvocateBurnie1897–1899
Evening MailHobart1869
Evening NewsLaunceston1894
Evening StarHobart1845–1846
Examiner [15] Launceston1842-current
ExpressLaunceston1962–1966
FederalistHobart1898–1899
FeralHobart1973–1980
Flinders Island Chronicle Flinders Island1836–1837
Glenorchy City GazetteGlenorchy1990–1992
Glenorchy Gazette [16] Glenorchy1993-current
Glenorchy Independent News: incorporating "Northern Suburbs News"Glenorchy1964–1966
Guardian, or, True Friend of TasmaniaHobart1847
Herald of TasmaniaHobart1827–1839
Highlands DigestBothwell1994–current
Highland HeraldBothwell1994
Hobart Town AdvertiserHobart1839–1861
Hobart Town Advertiser (Weekly)Hobart1859–1865
Hobart Town CourierHobart1827–1839
Hobart Town CourierHobart1840–1859
Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemen's Land GazetteHobart1839–1840
Hobart Town Daily MercuryHobart1858–1860
Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser Hobart1821–1825
Hobart Town Gazette, and Southern Reporter Hobart1816–1821
Hobart Town HeraldHobart1845–1846
Hobart Town HeraldHobart1880–1881
Hobart Town Herald and Total Abstinence AdvocateHobart1846–1847
Hobart Town Herald, or, Southern reporterHobart1846
Hobart Town PunchHobart1867–1868
Hobart Town PunchHobart1878
Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of TasmaniaHobart1847–1854
Hobarton Mercury Hobart1854–1857
Hub NewspaperPenguin and Burnie2005–2008
Huon & Derwent Times Franklin1933–1942
Huon NewsFranklin1964–1993
Huon Times Franklin1910–1933
Huon Valley News [17] Franklin1993–current
Horton Herald [18] Hobart1835–1838
Illustrated Tasmanian MailHobart1921–1935
Independent Launceston1831–1835
Irish Exile and Freedom AdvocateHobart1850–1851
Island NewsWhitemark1954–current
Jordan River JournalGagebrook1982–1993
Journalists' ClarionHobart1980
Kentish ChronicleSheffield1994–2013
Kentish TimesSheffield1978–1994
Kentish Voice [19] Railton and Sheffield2013–current
King Island Courier [20] Currie1984–current
King Island NewsCurrie1912–1986
Kingborough Chronicle: connecting our community and business [21] Kingston2009–current
Kingston & Channel MailSandy Bay2003
Kingston ClassifiedsCygnetCurrent
Land incorporating "The Critic"Hobart1924–1925
Launceston AdvertiserLaunceston1829–1846
Launceston AdvertiserLaunceston1986–1987
Launceston Courier Launceston1840–1843
Launceston Examiner: commercial and agricultural advertiserLaunceston1842–1899
Launceston SunLaunceston1972
Launceston Times and Auction Mart AdvertiserLaunceston1864–1869
Leven Leader: the weekly news for the district of UlverstoneUlverstone1992
Leven Lever Ulverstone1919–1920
Lilydale Progressive [22] Lilydale1980–current
Luina NewsLuina1976–1984
Meander Valley GazetteDeloraine2014–current
Mercury [23] Hobart1860–current
Mersey Valley ObserverDevonport1992–1993
MidlanderOatlands1987–2001
Midlands MonthlyOatlands1979–1987
MonitorLaunceston1895–1920
Monotone Sporting RecordHobart1914–1931
Morning Star and Commercial AdvertiserHobart1834–1835
Mount Lyell Standard & Strahan Gazette: a record of the mining fields of the West coast of Tasmania [24] Queenstown1896–1902
New Norfolk and Derwent Valley News [25] New Norfolk2020-current
New StandardHobart1977–1994
NewsHobart1924–1925
Norfolk Plains Gazette: serving the Longford, Perth and Cressy districtsLongford1992–1996
North Coast Standard, a newspaper for the north-west coastLatrobe1891–1892
North Coast Post [26] Launceston2023–current
North West PostFormby1887–1916
North West Post : your independent weeklyUlverstone1999
North Western AdvocateDevonport1899
North Western Advocate (Devonport) and the Emu Bay Times (Burnie) TasmaniaWest Devonport and Burnie1899–1919
North Western ChronicleLatrobe1887–1888
North-eastern Advertiser [27] Scottsdale1909-current
Northern Midlands GazetteLongford1997–1998
Northern SceneLaunceston1978–1983
Northern StandardUlverstone1921–1923
Northern Suburbs News: the voice of the northern suburbsMoonah1961–1963
Oatlands NewsOatlands1992–1993
Observer and Van Diemen's Land Journal of Politics, Agriculture, Commercial and General IntelligenceHobart1845–1846
Omnibus: a merchant's, tradesman's, auctioneer's, and general advertiser and shipping gazetteHobart1842–1864
People's Advocate, or, True friend of TasmaniaLaunceston1855–1856
People's Friend: official organ of the Tasmanian Temperance Alliance and the temperance societies of TasmaniaHobart1886–1936?
Peoples' Horn BoyHobart1834
Progress: the popular advertiserLaunceston1937
Quamby Whisper : informing the Westbury MunicipalityWestbury1990–1995
ReporterHobart1864
Rossarden Mountain Re-echoRossarden1991–2013
Saturday Evening ExpressLaunceston1924–1962
Saturday Evening MercuryHobart1954–1984
South Briton and Tasmanian Literary JournalHobart1843
Southern StarHobart1882–1883
Southern StarHobart1985–1998
Southern TimesBellerive1999–2000
Spec NewsCarlton River1980–2000
Spectator and V.D.L. GazetteHobart1844–1847?
Sporting News and Axemen's JournalLaunceston1901–1902
StandardSandy Bay1995–2005
Standard: Tasmania's Catholic newspaperHobart1937–1971
Standard of TasmaniaHobart1851
StarHobart1933
StarHobart1997–1998
Sun Coast NewsSt. Helens1980–1989
SunbeamsHobart1896–1899
Suncoast News and BulletinSt. Helens1990–1992
SunCoast NewsSt. Helens1993–2005
Sunday Examiner Launceston1984–current
Sunday Examiner ExpressLaunceston1966–1984
Sunday Tasmanian Hobart1984–current
Tamar CourierGeorge Town1964
Tamar TimesLaunceston1972
Tasman Gazette: Tasman Peninsula Community Newspaper [28] Tarrana1979–current
Tasmania Free PressHobart1975–1977
Tasmanian Launceston1871–1895
Tasmanian Automobile Trade JournalHobart1930–1951
Tasmanian Catholic StandardHobart1867–1872
Tasmanian Catholic StandardHobart1876–1888
Tasmanian ColonistHobart1851–1855
Tasmanian CountryHobart1980–current
Tasmanian Country LifeLaunceston1976
Tasmanian CountrywomanHobart1947–1972
Tasmanian Daily NewsHobart1855–1858
Tasmanian DemocratLaunceston1891–1898
Tasmanian FarmerLaunceston1937–1976
Tasmanian Farmer and GrazierLaunceston1976–1979
Tasmanian FarmerLaunceston1998–current
Tasmanian Leader [29] Hobart1855–?
Tasmanian Licensed Victuallers GazetteHobart1905–1910
Tasmanian Mail [30] Hobart1877–1921
Tasmanian MailLaunceston1978–1979
Tasmanian Morning Herald : with which is incorporated 'The Advertiser'Hobart1865–1867
Tasmanian Motor News [31] Launceston1953–1985
Tasmanian News [32] Hobart1883–1911
Tasmanian Punch [33] Hobart1866–?
Tasmanian Punch [34] Hobart1869–1870
Tasmanian PunchHobart1877
Tasmanian Punch [35] Launceston1877–1879
Tasmanian Telegraph a weekly journal of agriculture and commerce, of municipal, social, and colonial progressHobart1858–1859
Tasmanian Times [36] Hobart1867–1870
Tasmanian Tribune [37] [38] Hobart1872–1879
Tasmanian, and Port Dalrymple AdvertiserLaunceston1825
Tasmanian Weekly DictatorHobart1839
Tasmanian Weekly News [39] Hobart1858
Tassie Digger [40] Hobart1919–1921?
Tassie Times [41] Western Front1916–1918
Teetotal AdvocateLaunceston1843
TelegraphLaunceston1881–1883
Togatus Hobart1931-current
Town and country postDunalley2005
TribuneHobart18??–1879
True Catholic. Tasmanian Evangelical MiscellanyHobart1843–?
True Colonist: Van Diemen's Land Political Dispatch And Agricultural And Commercial Advertiser Hobart1834–1844
TrumpeterHobart1833–1850
Ulverstone HeraldUlverstone1974
Ulverstone PostUlverstone1998–1999
Valley and East Coast Voice [42] St. Marys1971–current
Valley VoiceSt. Marys1968–1969
Van Diemen's Land Gazette and General AdvertiserHobart1814
Van Diemen's Land ChronicleHobart1841
Van Diemen's Land Monthly MagazineHobart1835
VoiceHobart1927–1953
Waratah WhispersWaratah1981–1989
WeekenderBurnie1968–1976, 1987–1992
Weekly CourierLaunceston1901–1935
Weekly NewsHobart1868–1869
Weekly TimesHobart1863
Wellington Times and Agricultural and Mining GazetteBurnie1890–1897
West Coast Chronicle: the people's paper [43] Zeehan2008–2009
West Coast Miner Queenstown1975–1978
West Coaster: serving Western Tasmania [44] Queenstown1964–1968
Western Echo [45] Queenstown2021–current
Western Herald [46] Rosebery1992–2013
Western TiersMole Creek1980–2004
Westerner [47] Queenstown1979–1995
The World [48] [49] Hobart1918–1924
Zeehan and Dundas Herald Zeehan1890–1922

See also

References

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