Horace Burgess Harvey is the third part of the Burgess story that has been unfolding through this column and the fourth generation of the Burgess printing dynasty that was starting newspapers in New South Wales in the 1860s. Part 1 was told in May and Part 2 in June

“But wait, there’s more.” This could have been the qualification when a Rockhampton sub-editor wrote the headline for the retirement in 1991 of long-time printer, Horace Burgess Harvey: ‘Ink runs dry on four generations of news’

This story has been waiting nearly six years to be written. It is a story that should be told because hot-metal and letterpress printers such as Horace Burgess Harvey will soon be extinct – especially printers who can claim a printing ancestry like this

The Australian Newspaper History Group, which emerged from a conference on local newspapers and local identities at Chiltern in north-eastern Victoria in October 1999, is an example of whatindividuals rather than committees can achieve

The Adelaide Advertiser celebrated its 150th anniversary in July and changed its old masthead in September

I flew out of Madrid ten days before that disastrous Spanair takeoff late in August when more than 150 people died. Spain was the last port of call on a 26-day overseas trip that took in Scotland, France, Belgium and Spain. From a newspaper perspective, I saw few publications bigger than tabloid format, and many in a smaller format (generally about 260mm by 185mm)

The approach of an anniversary at the SMH and the Age triggered special efforts to recall times past, and to unearth artefacts that speak powerfully of those times

Trust The Bulletin to get it right, and in only four words! “Golden pills for lawyers” – that was its comment when two south coast papers were sued for libel in 1884

Rod Kirkpatrick recounts some of the more interesting ways newspapers sued to drum up readers, and each other out of business.

Meet Connie Ellis, three of whose children became journalists. Connie Ellis, born in London in 1860, migrated to Queensland in 1889 because she wanted a job in a new land. Her first job in Australia was as a ladies’ companion at Kyabra, an isolated town more than 1100km west of Brisbane.