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Newfoundland Newspapers
| | Although the Evening Telegram was not the country's first daily newspaper, it was by far the most successful. The end of the 19th century saw the last of the Newfoundland newspapers which had started between 1827 and 1833 -- the Newfoundlander, the Public Ledger, the Patriot, and the Times. The Evening Telegram was the first of the three major daily newspapers which replaced the old guard and continued into the 20th century.During the First World War, the Evening Telegram was read throughout Newfoundland for all manner of home front and war news. |
| | The Western Star, western Newfoundland's only daily
newspaper was founded April 4, 1900.
Becoming a daily in 1954 the Western Star
has a weekly circulation of about 52,500,
half within Corner Brook and the rest
distributed over a wide area, from Labrador
and the Northern Peninsula in the north to
Port aux Basques on the southwest corner and
east to Springdale and Baie Verte. In 1910,
it became the first paper to be printed on
Newfoundland newsprint. With the closing of
the Daily News in 1984, the Western Star
became one of the two remaining dailies in
the province. Becoming a daily in 1954, as
of 2013, the Western Star has a weekly
circulation of about 52,500, half within
Corner Brook and the rest distributed. |
| | The Daily Star contained domestic and foreign news, sports,
poetry, fiction, advertisements and other typical
features. It was started by H. M. Mosdell and
R. Dowden, both of whom were formerly connected
with the Fishermen's Advocate. The Advocate
claimed it was funded by a few Water Street merchants
"in the hope of using it as an anti-Confederate
paper in the event of the matter becoming a live
issue". The sole purpose of the Daily Star
for the first few years appeared to be to assail
W. F. Coaker and the Fishermen's Advocate.
The Advocate retaliated by publishing a column
called "Mosdell's Boomerangs" which
quoted Mosdell's earlier statements of praise
for the man and his cause. The Star supported
the Squires government and stopped attacking Coaker in about 1919, lashing out instead at A. B. Morine and C. J. Fox. |
| | Interested in how Newfoundland newspapers covered the war? Check out some of the top news stories , as they were covered at the time. |
