 The Rhondda Leader one of the more familiar local papers of the region , was first published in 1899 and nine years later became the Rhondda Leader , Maesteg , <unk> and Ogmore Telegraph . The Porth Gazette was published from 1900 to 1944 and during that period there was a newspaper called the Rhondda Socialist . Rhondda Gazette was in circulation from 1913 to 1919 while the Rhondda Clarion was available in the late 1930s . 
