The Northern Territory News (also known and branded as the NT News) is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Owned by News Corp Australia, it is published every week from Monday to Saturday. It primarily serves Darwin and the rest of the Northern Territory and it covers local, national, and world news as well as sports and business. The paper currently has a Monday to Friday readership average of 44,000, reaching an average of 32,000 on Saturdays. News Corp Australia also publishes its local Sunday counterpart, The Sunday Territorian, which is also available throughout Darwin and the Northern Territory, its online regional NT newspaper, the Centralian Advocate, as well as free weekly community newspapers (since December 2008) under the banner of Sun Newspapers (delivered in Darwin, Palmerston, and Litchfield). The paper has become well known around Australia for its front-page headlines, with then-Deputy Editor Paul Dyer winning a Walkley Award for his contributions in 2012. History Prior to the formation of the Northern Territory News, the Federal Government was concerned about the perceived 'pro-communist' bias from The Northern Standard, a newspaper which was owned by the North Australian Workers' Union. In 1949, they approached a Canberra-based journalist, Don Whitington, to establish a rival newspaper, to act as a counterbalance from the bias perceived by the Federal Government from The Northern Standard. Whitington formed Northern Territory News Services Pty Ltd, aided by Eric White and local printer John Coleman. The first edition of the Northern Territory News was published on 8 February 1952 as a weekly newspaper, later being published on a bi-weekly basis. Its office and print room were originally located from the former site of the English, Scottish and Australian Bank in Smith Street, nicknamed the 'Tin Bank'. Originally, the paper was quite politically active being a noted advocate of greater self-governance powers for the Northern Territory as well as being vocal on a number of other local issues. However, the paper gradually lapsed into the current apolitical stance it maintains presently with its most noted feature being its unique headlines and front pages. In 1960, News Limited bought the Northern Territory News, and it became a weekday newspaper in 1964. The Saturday edition was introduced in 1966, increasing its publishing schedule to six days a week, reverting to five days a week in 1975, before restarting its Saturday edition in 1979. In 1967, its