In 1946 the title was shortened to The Royal Gazette . For the better part of two decades, starting the next year, the Gazette also published a Sunday edition, but in 1963 that was discontinued. Today it is published every day except Sunday. Letters to the editor provide intimate glimpses into community concerns, debates and arguments. Just under 16,000 papers are printed daily and circulated island-wide.
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Readers picked up the first edition of the Mid-Ocean on August 16, 1911. S. S. Toddings, who since 1869 had been the successful editor and owner of The Colonist , founded the new paper. Published in Hamilton, it began as a four-page paper issued on Wednesday and Saturday. Mid-Ocean News had various production schedules and incarnations from the early 1900s to the late '60s. It was a biweekly, then a triweekly, briefly a daily, then the government paper from 1951 to 1959.