Every Sunday I harvest information about the number of digitised newspaper articles in Trove. You can view the current results in the Trove Data Dashboard. By compiling all the data from 2024, you can find out what changed last year.

6,241,739 digitised newspaper articles were added to Trove in 2024. The rate of digitisation was pretty quick until the end of March when the processing of the Melbourne Sun ended, then things flattened out a bit.

While the number of articles with corrections, tags, and comments all increased steadily across 2024, there seems to have been a bit of glitch indexing tags and comments causing some jumps in the totals.

Most of the digitised newspaper articles were published in NSW (3,190,972), Victoria (2,680,855), and South Australia (363,483).

About 83% (5,211,532) of the digitised articles added to Trove in 2024 were published between 1930 and 1954. The publication years with the biggest changes were:

• 1953 (722,765 articles added)
• 1954 (695,104 articles added)
• 1952 (586,890 articles added)

About 7% of articles (450,712) were published after 1954 (the copyright cliff of death). Most of these were from South Australia.

Thirty-eight newspapers were added to Trove in 2024:

• Australijos Lietuvis = The Australian Lithuanian (SA : 1948 - 1956)
• Belfast Gazette (Port Fairy, Vic. : 1876 - 1890)
• Braidwood News and Goldfields General Advertiser (NSW : 1862)
• Braidwood Observer and Miner’s Advocate (NSW : 1859 - 1862)
• Broughton Creek Mail (Berry, NSW : 1880 - 1881; 1891 - 1893; 1899 - 1907)
• Brunswick and Coburg Courier (Moreland, Vic. 1933 - 1934)
• Bunyip and Garfield Express : Nar-Nar-Goon, Tynong, Pakenham and Bunyip South representative (Vic. : 1938 - 1948)
• Central Western Daily (Orange, NSW : 1945 - 1954)
• Coburg and Moreland Courier (Vic. : 1932)
• Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review (NSW : 1917 - 1942)
• Coolamon-Ganmain Review (NSW : 1942 - 1947)
• Hanho Tʻaimzŭ = Hanho Times (Sydney, NSW : 1985 - 1995)
• Hill End and Tambaroora Times and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1871 - 1872; 1875)
• Hills Messenger (Port Adelaide, SA : 1984 - 2011)
• Moruya Examiner (NSW : 1881 - 1902)
• Portland Gazette and Belfast Advertiser (Vic. : 1844 - 1849)
• The Ararat and Mount Pleasant Creek Advertiser and Chronicle for the District of the Wimmera (Vic. : 1861 - 1873)
• The Ardlethan-Beckom Times (Temora, NSW : 1924; 1936 - 1937)
• The Banner of Belfast (Vic. : 1855; 1857 - 1876)
• The Bega District News (NSW : 1923 - 1955)
• The Belfast Gazette and Portland and Warnambool Advertiser (Vic. 1849 - 1876)
• The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer (NSW : 1894; 1898 - 1905)
• The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser (NSW : 1864)
• The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer (Berry, NSW : 1886 - 1890)
• The Brunswick and Coburg Gazette (Moonee Ponds, Vic. 1928 - 1933)
• The Captain’s Flat Mining Record (NSW : 1898)
• The Courier (Moreland, Vic. : 1932 - 1933)
• The Footscray Advertiser (Vic. : 1884 - 1887)
• The Kangaroo Valley Times (NSW : 1898 - 1904)
• The Mount Ararat Advertiser (Vic. : 1857)
• The Mount Ararat Advertiser and Chronicle for the District of the Wimmera (Vic. : 1857 - 1861)
• The Orroroo Enterprise and Great Northern Advertiser (SA : 1892 - 1906)
• The Portland Mercury and Normanby Advertiser (Vic. : 1842 - 1843)
• The Portland Mercury and Port Fairy Register (Vic. : 1843 - 1844)
• The Queenslander Illustrated Weekly (Brisbane, Qld. : 1927 - 1939)
• The Seasider (Christies Beach, SA : 1956 - 1963)
• The South-East Kingston Leader (SA : 1962 - 1987)
• The Sunny Corner Silver Press and Miners' Advocate (Mitchell, NSW : 1886)
• The Warrnambool Examiner and Western and Western District Advertiser (Vic. : 1856)

Newly digitised articles were added to 67 newspapers (including the new titles). The newspapers that had the largest increase in articles were:

• The Sun News-Pictorial (Vic), 2,089,635 articles added
• Daily Mirror (NSW), 1,533,759 articles added
• Maitland Mercury (NSW), 658,331 articles added
• Central Western Daily (NSW), 253,575 articles added
• The Pastoral Times (NSW), 221,982 articles added
• Sunraysia Daily (Vic), 210,759 articles added

If you want to drill down into the changes, have a look at the Trove Data Dashboard archive that has weekly snapshots. Or get the raw data for each weekly harvest from this repository.