Yea Chronicle Explained

The Yea Chronicle is a weekly newspaper that circulates on Wednesdays throughout the western region of the Murrindindi Shire in Victoria, Australia.

The newspaper started as The Yea Telegraph in October 1885. The name changed to The Yea Chronicle in 1890. An early owner was Frederick G. Purcell.^[1] It was later owned by Tom Dignam and who sold the paper to Ash and Fleur Long in 1984 and they in turn sold it to Geoff Heyes and Jenny Smith of Alexandra newspapers in May 1993.^[2] it has a circulation of 524.^[3]

See also

• List of newspapers in Australia

References

1. The bold type: a history of Victoria's country newspapers, 1840-2010 by Rod Kirpatrick, published in Ascot Vale for the Victorian country press association in 2010 page 92
2. Margarets Gee's Australian media guide 97th edition July 2011, published in Melbourne by Crown Content in 2011, pp 93
3. Web site: Yea Chronicle. The Victorian Country Press Association. 2016. 1 January 2017.

External links

• • Digitised World War I Victorian newspapers from the State Library of Victoria