Angus Mackay Angus Mackay i(A93035 works by)
Born: Established: 26 Jan 1824 Aberdeen,
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Scotland,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
; Died: Ceased: 5 Jul 1886 Sandhurst, Bendigo area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1827
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1 y separately published work icon The Bendigo Advertiser Bendigo Advertiser and Sandhurst Commerical Courier Robert Ross Haverfield (editor), Angus Mackay (editor), 1853 Sandhurst : R. R. Haverfield Arthur Moore Lloyd , 1853-1855 Z915970 1853 newspaper (23 issues) 'The Bendigo Advertiser has delivered trusted news to the people of central Victoria since 1853. Arthur Moore Lloyd and Robert Ross Haverfield founded the newspaper on the goldfields with Haverfield the founding editor. The first issue of the Bendigo Advertiser and Sandhurst Commerical Courier appeared as a single sheet, 17 inches by 11 inches, on December 9, 1953. The production cost of the 500-copy print run for the first edition was 18 pounds and the newspaper cover price was equal to five cents in today's value.

'Four months after that first edition, the Bendigo Advertiser grew to four pages. In 1855, the Bendigo Advertiser was acquired by young Sydney reporter Angus Mackay in partnership with Irish barristers John Henderson and James Joseph Casey. The trio rapidly developed the newspaper into what one writer described as ''the most powerful organ of public opinion in the provinces''.

'A significant element of the Bendigo Advertiser's history would be set in motion when John Andrew Michelsen joined the Bendigo Advertiser as mining reporter in 1892. His son Cyril would later join the newspaper as a cadet in 1922 and go on to play a major role in the development of the newspaper, retiring as editor in 1972.

'Another significant moment in the Bendigo Advertiser's history occurred on July 29, 1962, when fire destroyed the "ultra modern structure" that was its home leaving a damage bill of 250,000 pounds. One of the most unfortunate results of the fire was the complete loss of the newspaper's files dating back to the first edition in 1853 and an historically significant photographic library. Production of the newspaper for its next issue proceeded despite the fire. For the next week Bendigo radio station 3BO offered space for a news room for Bendigo Advertiser staff to work while the production was carried out at the Riverine Herald offices in Echuca.

The Bendigo Advertiser changed from a broadsheet publication to its present tabloid form in June 1998 and published its first full-colour edition on June 15, 1998. Today [2013], under the ownership of Fairfax Media, the Bendigo Advertiser continues to deliver trusted news to central Victoria, but the format is changing. As well as the printed version which now sells around 80,000 copies each week, the Bendigo Advertiser has an extensive website and on June 12 steps into a new horizon with an iPhone app.

'The Bendigo Advertiser is committed to delivering real news everyday.'

Source: 'About Us', Bendigo Advertiser website, http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/about-us/
Sighted: 25/03/2013
1 23 y separately published work icon The Atlas The Atlas : The Sydney Weekly Journal of Politics, Commerce and Literature Angus Mackay (editor), Richard Thompson (editor), James Martin (editor), Robert Lowe (editor), 1844 Sydney : D. L. Welch , 1844-1848 Z1121897 1844 newspaper (212 issues)

The Atlas, a weekly newspaper published in Sydney, was largely devoted to reporting and commenting on the political activities of the New South Wales colony, and advancing the political agenda of its editors. Detailed reports were included on the debates and decisions of the Legislative Council and opinion pieces criticised and satirised the main political protagonists. (The Atlas was particularly strident in its denunciation of Governor George Gipps's administration.) In the issue of 23 August 1845, the editors declared: 'All along it has been our aim to speak of public measures and of public men with an honest, fearless independence, and to show the people of this colony what a free press really is ... our independent tone may have given offence to some parties, but ... we shall have no cause to regret the line of conduct which we have adopted.' (1.39 (1845): 466)

The activities of the courts and the conflicts within the Anglican Church (largely over Puseyism) were covered extensively. Columns announcing 'Births, Deaths and Marriages' and shipping movements were regular features, together with occasional sections on theatricals and musical entertainments. Advertising columns were included and featured promotions for drapers, tailors, wine merchants, stock and station agencies, and other small businesses.

In an editorial column headed 'Literature', in the first issue of the Atlas, the editors declared their resolve 'to reserve one green and pleasant spot, where the turbulence, the virulence, the personality of politics shall not come; where the mind shall be able, without toil or labour, to turn from the converse of factious controversy, and saunter through the instructive paths of science, and over the widespread and flower-spangled fields of literature! Here we will elevate our readers above the vapours and the storms which deform and disturb the political hemisphere.' The column notes that, 'in looking about us for the materials to begin our course', little has yet been found of a suitable nature from Australian sources. Because of this, 'we must for the present content ourselves with looking to Europe for the materials for the main department of the Literary Atlas, and with proffering a quiet niche for the offerings of such of our colonial friends as may occasionally wander from the cold realms of utilitarianism to the warm regions of the emotional and the imaginative.'

Early in the Atlas's publication life, sales agents outside Sydney were established in Bathurst, Melbourne and London. Additional agents were soon found in Berrima, Wollongong, the Clarence River, Singleton, Maitland, Gundagai, Jerry's Plains, Parramatta, Windsor and Yass. In early 1846, an agent for Hobart and Launceston (the bookseller U. B. Barfoot) was added.

The Atlas ceased publication in December 1848. The proprietors announced the decision in the 16 December issue, stating: 'we now find it impossible to obtain from our subscribers that measure of justice so long withheld from us, the payment of their accounts, amounting now nearly to the sum of [pounds]1,000, much of it very long standing'. Rather than 'throw away our time and labour for such an unworthy return', they decided to 'withdraw the publication altogether' (4.212 (16 December 1848): 613) and 'suspend our labours at the end of the present year'. (4.214 (30 December 1848: 629)

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