Quest Community Newspapers

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Quest Community Newspapers
IndustryMedia
FoundedJuly 1985 (1985-07)
Headquarters,
Area served
South East Queensland
ProductsNewspapers
Parent News Corp Australia
Website questnews.com.au

Quest Community Newspapers is a newspaper company in Bowen Hills, Queensland, Australia. It is a subsidiary of News Corp Australia.

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It publishes weekly tabloids and one bi-weekly, providing news coverage primarily for the greater Brisbane area. In total, there are 20 free suburban newspapers, one news magazine (City News) and one gloss lifestyle magazine based on the Sunshine Coast, The Weekender, distributed to households and businesses throughout South East Queensland.

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Collectively, Quest Community Newspapers cover an area stretching from Caboolture in the north to Logan in the south, providing coverage of key suburbs in Brisbane for more than 1,000,000 readers in print and online weekly.[ citation needed ]

The full list of titles are: [1]

All Quest titles feature regular sections such as Motoring, Sport, Street-Watch and Lifestyle as well as local news and issues.

The Quest Newspaper Group was formed in July 1985 through an amalgamation of established weekly free-distribution newspapers across Brisbane.

Along with many other regional Australian newspapers owned by News Corp Australia, the newspaper ceased print editions of a number of Quest Newspapers in June 2020 and made them online-only publications from 26 June 2020. Other Quest newspapers ceased publication entirely. [3]

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References

  1. Quest Community Newspapers Map News Corp Australia
  2. "Northern Exposure". City North News (Brisbane, Australia) (1 ed.). 5 May 2005. p. 002. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  3. "Future is digital: News announces major changes". Gatton Star. 28 May 2020. Archived from the original on 22 December 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2020.