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52-627: The Sunshine Coast Daily is an online newspaper specifically serving the Sunshine Coast region of Queensland , Australia . It is owned by News Corp Australia . It was originally founded as a print newspaper, however since 2020 the publication is only available in digital forms. In 2008, the circulation of the Sunshine Coast Daily was 21,604 Monday to Friday and 34,716 on Saturday. In 2015, those figures were down to 12,200 Monday to Friday and just under 18,000 on Saturday. There were also

104-532: A digital one as well. There are some newspapers which are predominantly online, but also provide limited hard copy publishing An example is annarbor.com, which replaced the Ann Arbor News in the summer of 2009. It is primarily an online newspaper, but publishes a hard copy twice a week. Other trends indicate that this business model is being adopted by many newspapers with the growth of digital media. The turn to hybrid publishing models has been commensurate with

156-1006: A fast summary to inform people what happened, but does not give a solution or fixation to the problem. Very few newspapers in 2006 claimed to have made money from their websites, which were mostly free to all viewers. Declining profit margins and declining circulation in daily newspapers forced executives to contemplate new methods of obtaining revenue from websites, without charging for the subscription. This has been difficult. Newspapers with specialized audiences such as The Wall Street Journal and The Chronicle of Higher Education successfully charge subscription fees. Most newspapers have an online edition, including The Los Angeles Times , The Washington Post , USA Today , Mid-Day , and The New York Times . Many European countries also have their own English-language online news, such as The Daily Slovak News ( Slovakia ), Helsinki Times ( Finland ) and The Moscow Times ( Russia ). The Guardian experimented with new media in 2005, offering

208-479: A free twelve-part weekly podcast series by Ricky Gervais . Another UK daily to go online is The Daily Telegraph . In Australia , most major newspapers offer an online version, with or without a paywalled subscription option. In Algeria , the number of daily visitors of news websites and online editions of newspapers surpasses the number of daily readers of print newspapers since the end of 2016. An online-only paper has no print-media connections. An example

260-548: A new railway line that would extend from the current Gympie North line . The proposed line would connect Caloundra , Kawana Waters and Maroochydore with Brisbane and would terminate at the Sunshine Coast Airport. A light rail system has also been proposed, which would leave from the Maroochydore CBD and connect the local regional hubs before terminating at Caloundra. Sunshine Coast Regional Council operates

312-533: A number of community publications attached to the newspaper, the Caloundra Weekly , Maroochy Weekly , Nambour Weekly , and Buderim Chronicle . The Sunshine Coast Daily was also responsible for producing the Caboolture News , Noosa News , and Bribie Weekly . These had all been closed by News Limited by mid-2020. On 7 July 1980, Provincial Newspapers Queensland used the presence it had been building up on

364-763: A public library at 44 Sixth Avenue, Cotton Tree. The Maroochydore branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at 104 Memorial Avenue. The main state secondary school in the town is Maroochydore State High School (1964). Other schools in the area include: Along with a number of other regional Australian newspapers owned by NewsCorp , the Kawana/Maroochy Weekly newspaper ceased publication in June 2020. All four football codes are popular in Maroochydore. The Maroochydore Multi Sports Complex

416-468: A sale. On 28 May 2020, NewsCorp announced that there were to be significant job cuts to restructure the company towards the digitisation of regional newspapers. On 27 June 2020, the final print Sunshine Coast Daily was published. Many long-time local residents were disappointed in the action saying that the paper had been a “source of community connection for generations, documenting both small and large events in [people’s] lives”. Local publications including

468-566: A week. The website was the first online-only newspaper in Atlantic Canada and has been behind a paywall since starting in 2001. Even print media is turning to online-only publication. As of 2009, the decrease of the traditional business model of print newspapers has led to various attempts to establish local, regional or national online-only newspapers - publications that do original reporting, rather than just commentary or summaries of reporting from other publications. An early major example in

520-410: Is Britain's Weekend City Press Review , which provided a weekly news summary online beginning in 1995. Today, online news has become a huge part of society which leads people to argue whether or not it is good for society. Austra Taylor, author of the popular book, The Peoples Platform, argues that online news does not provide the detail needed to fully understand what actually happened. It is more just

572-686: Is Nadja Fleet. She has been the Editor in Chief at the Sunshine Coast Daily since 2017 and currently resides on the Sunshine Coast. The Sunshine Coast Daily Headquarters were located in Maroochydore , Queensland on Newspaper Place and Dalton Drive. As of June 2020, due to the significant decline in revenue due to COVID-19 , employees of the Sunshine Coast Daily were being moved out of the headquarters as it

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624-557: Is accessible via train and connecting bus via Nambour , Woombye and Landsborough stations on the Nambour & Gympie North Line has regular services to Brisbane , operated by Queensland Rail . There are also coach services from Sunshine Plaza to Brisbane Airport . Sunshine Coast Airport is located just north of the urban centre in Marcoola . It offers domestic flights to state capital cities around Australia. There are plans to create

676-458: Is available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play. It is compatible with ioS and Android. There have been multiple updates to the app since its production in 2016 which have allowed users to access the major articles of the day from their smart device. The Digital Edition of the Sunshine Coast Daily is an online flip book. It was launched in 2016 and aims to replicate the print version of

728-528: Is home to both the AFL and soccer and has hosted AFL Women's premiership matches and AFL pre-season matches. The Maroochydore Australian Football Club (Roos) (founded 1969) competes in the Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL) competition, the state's premier semi-professional level and also fields women's and junior sides. The Maroochydore Football Club (Swans) (founded 1968) play in

780-579: Is in line with the Pew Research Center's finding in a survey of U.S. Americans that the Internet is a leading source of news for people younger than 50. Not all articles published online receive the same amount of attention; there are factors that determine their popularity. The number of times an article gets shared on social media is relevant for activists, politicians, authors, online-publishers and advertisers. They thus have an interest in knowing

832-646: Is the UK Southport Reporter , introduced in 2000—a weekly regional newspaper that is not produced or run in any format than 'soft-copy' on the Internet by its publishers, PCBT Photography. Another early example is "Bangla2000", also introduced in 2000, which was uploaded twice daily from Bangladesh and Edited by Tukun Mahmud Nurul Momen. Unlike the UK Southport Reporter, it was not a regional newspaper. Bangla2000.com ran international, economic, and sports news as well, simultaneously. The largest library of

884-407: The 2016 census , the urban area of Maroochydore had a population of 56,308 people. In the 2021 census , the urban area of Maroochydore had a population of 63,673 people. The 2016 and 2021 statistics include the following suburbs from north to south: coastal strip of Coolum Beach , Point Arkwright , Yaroomba , coastal part of Mount Coolum , Marcoola , Mudjimba (including Mudjima Island ),

936-401: The Caloundra Weekly and Nambour Weekly ceased as part of this restructure. As of 2020, The Sunshine Coast Daily has three major online platforms: website, app and digital edition. The website follows the same format as the former print version. All members of the public can access the titles and blurbs of the major news articles of the day on the website however access to the articles on

988-516: The Cotton Tree reserve by Surveyor Thomas O'Connor in 1903. The land was acquired from William Pettigrew who had a timber depot at what is now Wharf Street. Its name comes from the Yuggera language word Muru-kutchi , meaning red-bill and referring to the black swan , which is commonly seen in the area. Maroochydore is a major commercial area of the Sunshine Coast with most shopping precincts located in

1040-630: The Football Queensland Premier League 2 and also fields women's and junior sides. The Maroochydore Rugby League Club (Swans) (founded 1972) competes in the Sunshine Coast Gympie Rugby League and also fields women's and junior sides. The Maroochydore Rugby Union (Swans) (founded 1974) competes in the Sunshine Coast Rugby Union competition and also fields junior sides. Cricket is also popular and

1092-507: The PCC ruled in the UK, but there was no clear distinction between authentic online newspapers and forums or blogs. In 2007, a ruling was passed to formally regulate UK-based online newspapers, news audio, and news video websites covering the responsibilities expected of them and to clear up what is, and what is not an online news publication. News reporters are being taught to shoot video and to write in

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1144-449: The Sea (Stella Maris) Catholic Church was officially opened by Archbishop James Duhig on Sunday 15 October 1950. It replaced an earlier church which had become inadequate for the growing congregation. The 1950 church could seat 170 people in the nave and a further 150 people on the verandahs on either side of the church. Timber from the recently demolished St Joseph's Catholic Church in Nambour

1196-501: The Sunshine Coast through the purchase of various weeklies in the 1970s, combined with the 1964 purchase of the Nambour Chronicle (another local Sunshine Coast newspaper) to launch a new publication, published from Maroochydore, the Sunshine Coast Daily. The Sunshine Coast Daily steadily became a strong performer, building its circulation to 21,052 by September 1992 in a region with a population of 125,000. It gave fierce competition to

1248-557: The U.S. is the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , which stopped publishing after 149 years in March 2009 and went online only. In Scotland, in 2010, Caledonian Mercury became Scotland's first online-only newspaper, with the same aims as Southport Reporter in the UK, with The Yorkshire Times the following suit and becoming Yorkshire's first online-only paper in 2011. The Independent ceased print publications in 2016, becoming

1300-761: The United States, and the United Kingdom. All samples within each country were nationally representative. Half of the sample reportedly paid for a print newspaper in the past 7 days, and only one-twentieth of the sample paid for online news in the past 7 days. That only 5% of the sample had recently paid for online newspaper access is likely because most people access news that is free. People with portable devices, like tablets or smartphones, were significantly more likely to subscribe to digital news content. Additionally, people aged between 25 and 34 are more willing to pay for digital news than older people across all countries. This

1352-686: The area is located on Horton Parade, Maroochydore . Maroochy Waters is a waterfront, residential estate located in Maroochydore adjacent to the Maroochy River in Queensland , Australia. It is one of the last canal projects to be built in Queensland with direct access to the river system and the Coral Sea . Sunshine Coast Region Council has an annual dredging program to replenish the sand beaches. The canals plus all infrastructure were built in three stages in

1404-542: The central business district. It is home to the Sunshine Plaza shopping centre and the Sunshine Coast's major bus interchange for Translink services operated by Kinetic Group . Maroochydore is also a venue of major surf sport carnivals, and is a popular holiday point from which to travel the rest of Queensland. The boundaries of the Maroochydore as a locality are well-defined. As a town, Maroochydore does not have strict boundaries. The central business district (CBD) for

1456-467: The day of publication is less important when it comes to predicting the popularity of the article. Maroochydore Maroochydore ( / m ə ˈ r uː tʃ i d ɔːr / mə- ROO -chee-dor ) is a coastal town in the Sunshine Coast Region , Queensland , Australia. In the 2021 census , the urban area of Maroochydore had a population of 63,673 people. The city was subdivided from

1508-476: The decline in readership. A controversy faced by the Sunshine Coast Daily was the front-page sniper shot depiction targeted at Anastasia Palaszczuk in 2019. This dispute was taken to the Australian Press Council that concluded that the Sunshine Coast Daily apology and the fact that the publication removed the image from its digital platforms and published letters to the editor that were critical of

1560-551: The eastern part of Bli Bli , Pacific Paradise , Twin Waters , Maroochydore (suburb) , Kuluin , Alexandra Headland , and Mooloolaba . Cotton Tree has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Maroochydore's suburbs are served by Kinetic Group , who operate from outside the Sunshine Plaza in the CBD. Various bus routes connect Maroochydore to Buderim , Coolum , Kawana Waters , Caloundra , Nambour and Noosa . Maroochydore

1612-629: The first British national newspaper to move to an online only format. In the US, technology news websites such as CNET , TechCrunch , and ZDNet started as web publications and enjoy comparable readership to the conventional newspapers. Also, with the ever-rising popularity of online media, veteran publications like the U.S. News & World Report are abandoning print and going online-only. In October 2020, 11 online only news portals formed DIGIPUB News India foundation to encourage an ecosystem of Digital Only press. In 2015, 65% of people reported that print

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1664-466: The increasing importance of social media platforms to disseminate news, especially amongst 18-24 demographic. In 2013, the Reuters Institute commissioned a cross-country survey on news consumption, and gathered data related to online newspaper use that emphasizes the lack of use of paid online newspaper services. The countries surveyed were France, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Japan, Brazil,

1716-481: The late 1970s, mid 1980s, and the early 1990s. The deep water canal plays a role in flood relief and the land is higher than Maroochydore CBD which has recorded floods in the last 30 years. The canal's main reach, which extends for more than one km, was the training ground for 1992 Olympic K–1 1000 m gold medalist Clint Robinson . Maroochydore Post Office opened on 4 October 1922 (a receiving office had been open from 1891 until 1898, and from 1916). Our Lady Star of

1768-552: The long-established Brisbane daily, the Courier Mail. The success of the Sunshine Coast Daily acquisition was reflective in Provincial Newspaper Queensland's annual net profit. In 1985 its annual net profit increased from $ 1,919,000 in 1980 to $ 4,510,000. In 1987–88, its final year of operation as Provincial Newspaper's Queensland, profit was $ 4million. In June 2016, the sale of Australian Regional Media to News Corp

1820-479: The newspaper industry as strengthening their chances of survival. The movement away from the printing process can also help decrease costs. Online newspapers, like printed newspapers, have legal restrictions regarding libel, privacy, and copyright, also apply to online publications in most countries as in the UK. Also, the UK Data Protection Act applies to online newspapers and news pages. Up to 2014,

1872-407: The number of article shares. With the dataset being publicly available, a fair amount of data analysis has been conducted. Some can be found on the website "Kaggle" . One "classification analysis" . GitHub . 30 November 2020. used machine learning methods, namely, logistic regression , linear discriminant analysis , artificial neural networks and random forests to predict

1924-691: The number of shares, preferably even predicting it before the article is being published. With new methods of Natural Language Processing such as Latent Dirichlet allocation it is possible to gain insights into the core characteristics of an article. A team of Portuguese scientists retrieved data from the website Mashable and made the dataset publicly available. Said "dataset about online news popularity" . consists of 39,644 observations and 60 possible features, that have been collected over two years from 2013 to 2015. The features consist of variables describing words, links, digital media, time, keywords, insights from Natural Language Processing and

1976-485: The old golf course into a new city centre for the region known as Sunshine Central. The redevelopment is next to Sunshine Cove, a new sustainable residential and commercial development that has revitalized the general town centre and the development won the award from the Urban Development Institute of Australia for the best residential property Development at its annual Australian awards night in 2016. In

2028-442: The page resolved the issue. The Sunshine Coast Daily has won the following awards: Finalist Online newspaper Going online created more opportunities for newspapers, such as competing with broadcast journalism in presenting breaking news in a more timely manner. The credibility and strong brand recognition of well established newspapers, and the close relationships they have with advertisers, are also seen by many in

2080-415: The pandemic, NewsCorp Australia to enter discussions to sell their regional newspaper publication. NewsCorp was in discussion with Australian Community Media to reach an agreement on the sale of the portfolio of more than 100 regional and community newspapers. However, on 12 May 2020, News Corp Australasia executive chairman Michael Miller said the talks with Australian Community Media had failed to result in

2132-403: The publication. When the digital edition was initially launched it was a four-page interactive digital edition highlighting major stories as they would have appeared in paper. As of July 2020, due to positive feedback from locals, the digital edition is sixteen pages and also features nation and world news, puzzles, horoscopes, shares, TV guides and cartoons. The editor of the Sunshine Coast Daily

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2184-428: The remaining 75%. Contrastingly, ad revenue for digital methods was 5% in 2006. Hybrid newspapers are predominantly focused on online content, but also produce a print form. Trends in online newspapers indicate publications may switch to digital methods, especially online newspapers in the future. The New York Times is an example of this model of the newspaper as it provides both a home delivery print subscription and

2236-420: The succinct manner necessary for Internet news pages. Some newspapers have attempted to integrate the Internet into every aspect of their operations, e.g., the writing of stories for both print and online, and classified advertisements appearing in both media, while other newspaper websites may be quite different from the corresponding printed newspaper. An early example of an "online-only" newspaper or magazine

2288-404: The top ten percent most frequently shared articles. The conclusion is, that the average keywords within an article and the average popularity of said keywords have the greatest impact on the amount of shares an article receives. Moreover, the amount of links to other articles and the closeness to the most relevant current topics are influencing the popularity of an article heavily. On the other hand,

2340-483: The website are only accessible to people who purchase the unlimited digital access Sunshine Coast Daily subscription. The subscription rate is $ 1 a week for the first four weeks and $ 7 a week thereafter. This subscription allows users unlimited digital access on any device, access to apps and unrestricted digital access to the Courier Mail. In September 2016, the Sunshine Coast Daily launched an app for readers to access major news stories online rather than in print. The app

2392-418: The weekend (Saturday) print Sunshine Coast Daily decreased from 46,000 to 37,000 from March 2014 to March 2015 The reasons for this decline in circulation is because of competition from other media and because newspapers represent a “mature” industry approaching its end. Furthermore, population declines, closure of major industries in regional areas and reductions in editorial space may have also contributed to

2444-575: The world Library of Congress archived it subsequently. Unlike blog sites and other news websites, it is run as a newspaper and is recognized by media groups such as the NUJ and/or the IFJ . They fall under relevant press regulations and are signed up to the official UK press regulator IMPRESS . allNovaScotia is an online newspaper based in Halifax, Nova Scotia , Canada that publishes business and political news six days

2496-635: Was (PLATO) News Report , an online newspaper created by Bruce Parrello in 1974 on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois. The first newspaper to go online was The Columbus Dispatch on July 1, 1980. Beginning in 1987, the Brazilian newspaper Jornaldodia ran on the state-owned Embratel network , moving to the Internet in the 1990s. By the late 1990s, hundreds of U.S. newspapers were publishing online versions, but did not yet offer much interactivity. One example

2548-407: Was announced that NewsCorp Australia were to lease the space. The readership of the print Sunshine Coast Daily increased in the early 2000s to 2014. From 2014 to the introduction of the online-only paper, the news publication had seen a steady decline in readership. The weekly Monday-Friday print Sunshine Coast Daily decreased from 45,000 to 42,000 from March 2014 to March 2015 and the readership of

2600-479: Was approved by 99.94% of shareholders who voted, not including News Limited and its associated shareholders. In June 2016, Australian Regional Media was sold to News Corp Australia for $ 36.6 million. In May 2020, due to the already challenged regional newspaper sector suffering from significant declines in advertising spend before the COVID-19 crisis and even more significant advertising booking cancellations caused by

2652-404: Was their preferred method for reading a newspaper, down 4% from 2014. The methods people use to get their news from digital means was at 28%, as opposed to 20% of people attaining the news through print newspapers. These trends indicate an increase in digital consumption of newspapers, as opposed to print. Today, ad revenue for digital forms of newspapers is nearly 25%, while print is constituting

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2704-516: Was used to construct the Maroochydore church to reduce the costs. The architect was Frank Cullen and the contractor was K. D. Morris. The Maroochydore Library opened in 1975. Horton Park Golf Club is in Maroochydore. The club relocated to Bli Bli in May 2015 and changed names to Maroochy River Golf Club. The relocation of the golf course allowed the Sunshine Regional Council to develop

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