About Us

If there is one word that sums up both the philosophy and the achievements of Fairfax Community Newspapers Victoria it is tradition. For, in all that it does today, the group draws on the heritage of one of its 18 mastheads - - The Dandenong Journal - which has been publishing continuously for more than 135 years. Launched as the South Bourke and Mornington Journal in 1865, just 30 years after the founding of Melbourne, the modern-day version of The Journal is a highly-regarded flagship publication for FCN Victoria whose newspapers, at the start of the third millennium, are read by more than 1.2 million** people throughout most of metropolitan Melbourne. (** Source: Roy Morgan Suburban Readership Survey Oct 98 - Sept 00). It is The Journal's unbroken tradition of true community service that underscores FCN's overall approach and which has helped establish it as one of Australia's foremost suburban newspaper publishers. FCN Victoria's mastheads have a vast reach, as is evidenced by their titles - viz. The (Dandenong) Journal, The (Footscray) Mail, the Altona-Laverton Mail, the Williamstown Advertiser, The (Brimbank/Sunshine) Advocate, The Werribee Banner, the Melton-Bacchus Marsh Express Telegraph, the Sunbury-Macedon Ranges Telegraph, the Knox Journal, the Whitehorse Journal, the Maroondah Journal, the Yarra Ranges Journal, the Monash Journal, the Community News (Moreland Edition), the Community News (Moonee Valley Edition), The Frankston Journal, and House and Land (south-eastern region). While the entity known today as Fairfax Community Newspapers Victoria has operated under other several other names over the years, the desire to be of genuine service to local communities has always been the driving force. As far as FCN is concerned, it is not what's in a