Quest Community Newspapers
Encyclopedia
Quest Community Newspapers is a newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 company in Stafford
Stafford, Queensland
Stafford is a northern suburb of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia.A predominantly residential suburb, including some original Queenslander-style homes and a significant number of post-war Queensland Housing Commission homes on quarter-acre blocks built around the 1940s and...

, Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It is owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch's
Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate....

 News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...

.

It currently publishes weekly tabloids, and one bi-weekly, providing news coverage predominately 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.

Its head office is at the corner of Shand and Byth Streets, Stafford, Queensland.

Mastheads

Collectively Quest Community Newspapers cover an area stretching from the Noosa in the north to the borders of the Gold Coast in the south, providing coverage of key suburbs in Brisbane for more than 1,000,000 readers weekly.

The full list of titles are:
  • Albert and Logan News - the only bi-weekly newspaper in the group, it publishes every Wednesday and Friday
  • Caboolture Shire Herald
  • City News
  • City North News
  • City South News
  • Ipswich News
  • Logan West Leader
  • Noosa Journal
  • North-West News
  • Northern Times
  • Northside Chronicle
  • Pine River Press
  • Redcliffe & Bayside Herald
  • South-East Advertiser
  • Southern Star
  • South-West News
  • Springfield News
  • Westside News
  • Wynnum Herald
  • Maroochy Journal
  • Caloundra Journal


All Quest titles feature regular sections such as Motoring, Sport, Property and Entertainment as well as local news and issues. In 2003 and again in 2010 the group undertook a major redesign of all the newspapers to improve the ease with which its newspapers can be read.

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

External links

Quest News website

Local Newspaper Links
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK