The News was an afternoon daily tabloid
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in the city of
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,
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.
The newspaper was established in 1869 as the
Evening Journal. In 1933, a controlling stake was taken by
The Advertiser, controlled by the Herald and Weekly Times. HWT sold off
The News in 1949, and
Sir Keith MurdochSir Keith Arthur Murdoch was an Australian journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch, the CEO and Chairman of News Corp.-Life and career:Murdoch was born in Melbourne in 1885, the son of Annie and the Rev...
took control of the paper two years later. It was the main asset passed to his son
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upon his death. It was the latter's first media interest and commenced the foundation of what was to become
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and subsequently the international media conglomerate,
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.
Later Murdoch acquired the city's other local newspaper, the morning daily broadsheet,
The Advertiser in 1987. Rupert Murdoch sold
The News that year and many of its journalists moved to
The Advertiser.
The News closed in 1992.
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