I’ve been capturing weekly snapshots of the Trove newspaper corpus for the last couple of years. You can see the latest results in the Trove Newspaper Data Dashboard. Using this data I’ve compiled a quick summary of changes over the last year.

7,518,764 digitised newspaper articles were added to Trove in 2023. The total number of articles increased from 236,530,127 to 244,048,891. The chart below shows how the number of articles varied across the year. You’ll notice that the rate of digitisation increased about the same time the government announced new funding for Trove. Were more articles digitised because of the funding, or were articles in the digitisation pipeline held back until the funding was announced? Or both?

Most of the new articles were published in either Victoria or NSW – both these states had an increase of more than 3 million articles each! There were smaller increases for WA and SA. This chart shows the distribution of articles by state.

Fifty-seven new newspaper titles were added to Trove in 2023:

• Bairnsdale Advertiser and East Gippsland Stock and Station Journal (Vic. : 1946 - 1954)
• Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative (NSW : 1905 - 1910; 1925 - 1928)
• Coolamon Echo (NSW : 1898 - 1905)
• Coolamon Farmers' Review (NSW : 1910 - 1917)
• Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review (NSW : 1906 - 1910)
• Daily Commercial News and Shipping List (Perth, WA : 1927 - 1934)
• Daily Mirror (Sydney, NSW : 1941 - 1955)
• Direct Action (Adelaide, SA : 1928 - 1930)
• Dubbo Dispatch (NSW : 1942)
• Essendon Gazette (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1900 - 1905)
• Essendon and Flemington Chronicle (Vic. : 1882; 1884 - 1894)
• Hills Gazette (Port Adelaide, SA: 1973 - 1984)
• Kyabram Free Press (Vic. : 1892 - 1894)
• Lawloit Times (Kaniva, Vic. : 1910 - 1929)
• Myrtleford Times and Ovens Valley Advertiser (Vic. : 1930 - 1955)
• Northern Planter (Ingham, Qld. : 1907 - 1908)
• Omeo Standard (Vic. : 1928)
• Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Echuca Chronicle (NSW : 1862)
• Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle (Deniliquin, NSW : 1863 - 1866)
• Rutherglen Miner and Howlong and Wahgunyah Times (Vic. : 1903 - 1912)
• South Sydney News (NSW : 1940)
• South Sydney Sentinel (NSW : 1932 - 1935)
• Sportsman (Perth, WA : 1903)
• The Araluen Star and Miners' Right (NSW : 1863 - 1864)
• The Bairnsdale Liberal News and North Gippsland District Advertiser (Vic. : 1879 - 1880)
• The Braidwood Express and People’s Advocate (NSW : 1904 - 1907)
• The Braidwood and Araluen Express (NSW : 1899 - 1907)
• The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People’s Advocate (NSW : 1899 - 1904)
• The Corryong Courier and Walwa District News (Vic. : 1946 - 1952)
• The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1888 - 1900)
• The Gippsland Daily News (Bairnsdale, Vic. : 1890 - 1894)
• The Gippsland Farmers' and Glengarry, Toongabbie and Cowwarr Journal (Traralgon, Vic. : 1922 - 1923)
• The Hampden Guardian and Western Province Advertiser (Camperdown, Vic. : 1871 - 1872 ; 1874 - 1877)
• The Irishman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1872 - 1873)
• The Journal : Glengarry, Toongabbie and Cowwarr Journal (Traralgon, Vic. : 1923 - 1929)
• The Manning River Chronicle (Wingham, NSW : 1886 - 1888)
• The North Eastern Despatch (Wangaratta, Vic. : 1907 - 1913)
• The Pastoral Times (South Deniliquin, NSW : 1866 - 1950
• The Pastoral Times : incorporated with the Southern Courier (South Deniliquin, NSW : 1861)
• The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph (Deniliquin, NSW : 1859 - 1861)
• The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter (NSW : 1863)
• The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier (Deniliquin, N.S.W : 1861 - 1862)
• The People’s Weekly (Moonta, SA: 1890 - 1926)
• The Rutherglen Sun (Vic. : 1885)
• The Rutherglen Sun and Murray Valley Advertiser (Vic. : 1886)
• The Shepparton Advertiser and Moira and Rodney Farmers' Chronicle (Vic. : 1886 - 1887)
• The Skipton Standard and Streatham Gazette (Vic. : 1914 - 1928)
• The Sportsman (Perth, WA : 1904)
• The Standard (Port Adelaide, SA : 1959 - 1965)
• The Tatura Guardian (Vic. : 1895 - 1903)
• The Wingham Chronicle and Manning Advertiser (NSW : 1888)
• The Yarrawonga Mercury and Lake Rowan, Tungamah and Mulwala (N.S.W.) News (Vic. : 1882)
• The Yarrawonga Mercury and Mulwala (N.S.W.) News (Vic. : 1882 - 1897)
• The Yarrawonga Mercury and Southern Riverina Advertiser (Vic. : 1897 - 1905; 1913 - 1920)
• Tungamah and Lake Rowan Express (Vic. : 1882 - 1883)
• Western Press and Camperdown, Colac, Mortlake and Terang Representative (Vic. : 1866-1867 ; 1870)
• Woodend Star and Macedon Advocate (Vic. : 1942 - 1955)