The Northern Miner (Queensland)

The Northern Miner is an online newspaper published in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia.

The Northern Miner was first established in 1872 by James Smith Reid.

[1] Reid established the paper only eight months after the discovery of gold in the regional Queensland town Charters Towers.

[3] Of the five newspapers published in the goldfields, The Northern Miner was the only one to survive the downturn in gold mining.[when?

][citation needed] The paper was published in hard copy – from the same Gill Street address as in 1878 – until June 2020, when News Corp, its then owner, announced that more than 125 newspapers would be closed or become digital only.