January 2010                                  Issue No 100

The relationship between News Angle and the Community House has been essential to the life of the paper. Published by the House, it was very costly until it became funded by local advertising. Every local organisation has advertised in the paper, its first adverts including APEX and the Anglesea’s Hardware and Building Suppliers.

News Angle now mutually supports the House, raising funds for local community projects and advertising its courses. Its format changed to its current A4 under Editor Trish Bodman in 2001. Jan Morris took over in 2008 from Fred Flynn who edited the paper for five years.

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NewsAngle: Community Voice

for 20 years

By Jessica Morris

From local fundraisers and Nippers Carnivals to the O’Donohue debate, NewsAngle has covered it all. It has been 100 issues and 20 years since the paper began, and it is still the voice of the Anglesea community. Beginning as an A5 bimonthly on a typewriter, the NewsAngle we read today now reaches from Bellbrae to Fairhaven informing over 4,000 locals.
People can get things published in NewsAngle" says editor Jan Morris, "but have difficulty getting them published in the weekly local papers. [It] fills a hole." Perhaps this is why some have thought of it as a community living treasure. It has noted births and deaths and celebrated some of our most prestigious locals, many including Dr.McKenna's farewell in 1993, Mr. P’s (Ian Poulton’s) resignation and Pauline Reilly’s Order of Australia award. NewsAngle has become the face of a passionate, close knit community.

NewsAngle began in August 1989 as a committee project of the newly developed Community House. Editor Lynne Hume was at the helm for 12 years. She shared her hope that NewsAngle would “become a forum of the community voice” in the first issue. Today, Jan describes it as, "a discussion platform for local issues." She highlights the focus on local identities, issues and the environment as significant to the paper in the past two decades.