6-575: The Byron Shire Echo is a weekly independent compact newspaper published every Wednesday in Mullumbimby , New South Wales , Australia . The newspaper was founded in 1986 as The Brunswick Valley Echo by Nicholas Shand and David Lovejoy. The newspaper published its first issue on 11 June 1986 largely in response to marijuana raids made by the New South Wales Police Force in valleys surrounding Mullumbimby. Shand and Lovejoy founded
12-520: Is a broadsheet -quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format, especially one in the United Kingdom . The term as used for this size came into use after The Independent began producing a smaller format edition in 2003 for London's commuters , designed to be easier to read when using mass transit . Readers from other parts of the country liked the new format, and The Independent introduced it nationally. The Times and The Scotsman copied
18-476: The format as The Independent increased in sales. The Times and The Scotsman are now printed exclusively in compact format following trial periods during which both broadsheet and compact version were produced simultaneously. The Independent published its last paper edition on 20 March 2016 and now appears online only. This journalism -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This United Kingdom newspaper–related article
24-636: The newspaper as a civil rights watchdog due to news media refusing to report on aggressive and illegal actions made by police. In 1991, Shand, Lovejoy and photographer Jeff Dawson established the Lismore Echo which would later be sold to the employees of the newspaper and renamed the Northern Rivers Echo . The "Northern Rivers Echo" would change hands again with Australian Provincial Newspapers purchasing it in December 2008 and once more in 2016 when
30-495: The newspaper dating back to 2005. A documentary of the newspaper titled The Echo Doco – Born To Be Trouble was released in 2011. Since 2010, the newspaper has been edited by Hans Lovejoy. He is only the third editor in the newspaper's history, after founder Nicholas Shand and long-serving editor Michael McDonald. The general manager of the company is Simon Haslam, columnists of the newspaper include Mungo MacCallum and Mandy Nolan. Compact (newspaper) A compact newspaper
36-703: The newspaper was sold to News Corp Australia . before being totally closed by News Corp Australia in June 2020 A third newspaper named the Tweed Shire Echo began publication in August 2008, but ceased publication in 2012 as a result of low income. Echonetdaily was launched in August 2011 as an online newspaper covering news and events in the Northern Rivers region. The newspaper's website, through Issuu ; an electronic publishing platform, provides archived PDF versions of
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