Herald

by Miroslava Jurcik

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Herald

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Miroslava Jurcik

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Photograph - Photograph

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The Herald was a broadsheet newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia from 1840 to 1990.
The Port Phillip Herald was first published as a semi-weekly newspaper on 3 January 1840 from a weatherboard shack in Collins Street. It was the fourth newspaper to start in Melbourne.
The paper opened with the adopted motto "impartial – but not neutral", which was to run under its masthead for 50 years.
It was founded and published by George Cavenagh (1808–1869). He was born in India, as the youngest son of a Major. He came to Sydney in March 1825 where he worked as a magistrates’ clerk and farmer, before eventually taking on the role editor of the Sydney Gazette in 1836.
Bringing his wife (Jemima Caroline née Smith) and eight children, his staff and machinery to Melbourne, Cavenagh first produced the Port Phillip Herald as free editions. Later copies were to sell for sixpence.
In February 1987 the company publishing The Herald, The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, was purchased by Rupert Murdoch through his company News Ltd (the Australian arm of international media conglomerate News Corp).
This picture was taken at Spirit of Anzac exhibition in Sydney, Australia from an old silent film.

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