The Northern Star is a daily newspaper

Newspaper

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 serving Lismore, New South Wales

Lismore, New South Wales

Lismore is a subtropical town in northeastern New South Wales, Australia. Lismore is the main population centre in the City of Lismore local government area. Lismore is a regional centre in the Northern Rivers region of the State.-History:...

, Australia

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. The newspaper

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 is owned by APN News & Media

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The Northern Star is circulated to Lismore

Lismore, New South Wales

Lismore is a subtropical town in northeastern New South Wales, Australia. Lismore is the main population centre in the City of Lismore local government area. Lismore is a regional centre in the Northern Rivers region of the State.-History:...

 and surrounding communities, from Billinudgel to the north, to Kyogle and Casino

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 to the west and Evans Head to the south and includes the seaside towns of Byron Bay and Ballina

Ballina, New South Wales

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The circulation of The Northern Star is 14,737 Monday to Friday and 22,653 on Saturday.

The Northern Star website is part of the APN Regional News Network

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History

The two page first issue of The Northern Star was brought out on 13 May 1876, on the tiny Albion hand press that today holds pride of place in the foyer of the Goonellabah Media Centre. In 1955 building started on the media centre in Goonellabah, and in 1957 the move was made from the Molesworth St office.

In 1981 The Northern Star commissioned a 7unit Gross Urbanite Web Offset press capable of printing 40,000 fifty six page copies – 2.24 million pages an hour.

In 2004 the press was upgraded to twelve units with six Enkel auto reel stands, increasing the capability to 3.2 million pages an hour or 53,333 pages a minute. Colour capacity also increased from 16 to 48 pages of processed colour in one pass.

External links

• The Northern Star