page_title: The Advocate (Tasmania)
section_title: Later developments
hierarchical_section_title: The Advocate (Tasmania) / Later developments
caption_attribution_description: English: The Advocate building in Burnie. See also File:The-Advocate-Burnie-20150218-001.jpg. The Advocate moved out of the building in July 2016.[1]
context_page_description: The Advocate is a local newspaper of North-West and Western Tasmania, Australia.
  Its readership covers the North West Coast and West Coast of Tasmania, including towns such as Devonport, Burnie, Ulverstone, Penguin, Wynyard, Latrobe and Smithton.
  It is currently published by Australian Community Media, from the Harris Building, Burnie.
context_section_description: In 2004, The Advocate became the third largest regional daily of Rural Press thereby ending the involvement of the Harris family for the first time since inception. In 2008, Rural Press became part of Fairfax Media, Australia’s largest integrated metropolitan, regional and rural print, online and digital media business in Australasia with The Advocate the only daily newspaper covering all areas of North West and Western Tasmania.
  In 2009 all printing was centralised in Launceston, at a print facility run by The Examiner, a former rival publication that was owned by Fairfax Media, the then-owner of The Advocate. The press was dismantled and shipped off to a newspaper in New Zealand, where it was deployed at another newspaper owned by the Fairfax Media group.
  The Advocate anniversary and celebratory editions regularly draw on the historical photographs of the newspaper.
  Nine Entertainment briefly owned the newspaper after its $4 billion merger with Fairfax Media in July, 2018 . However, that changed when The Advocate along with 160 regional mastheads owned by Fairfax were purchased by media entrepreneur Anthony Catalano for $115 million .
  The newspaper is currently owned and published by Catalano's company Australian Community Media.
caption: The former headquarters of The Advocate on Mount Street.
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