The newspaper is now in website form only and is owned by News Corp Australia.

The paper was started by William Robert Baker who had worked on newspapers in the Grafton District.

Mr Baker and his two apprentices Norman MacKinon and James McLeod set about producing the paper that was the forerunner to today's Tweed Daily News.

After the early days of patiently setting every letter by hand, The Tweed Daily took a major step forward in 1970 when it became the second daily newspaper in Australia to install an offset printing press.

Nowadays publishing is done on a computer system and the company's papers are printed at sister sites in Ballina and Yandina.