Alice Springs Newspaper Australia 1994 as the largest circulation independent newspaper in the Northern Territory of Australia.
It appeared each Thursday in Alice Springs, with a circulation of 11,500, and covering an area of one million square kilometers of Central Australia.
Alice Springs News Online was founded in 1997 and was one of the world’s first newspapers on the web. Our online edition steadily grew in popularity, partly because of its five million word archive which became a sought-after resource about the region for tourists, business and researchers.
In March 2011 we judged that the online readership had well and truly surpassed the print edition readership, in a clear trend of the news reading public inexorably drifting to the web: We mothballed the paper edition.