We founded the Alice Springs News 1994 as the largest circulation independent newspaper in the Northern Territory of Australia.Alice Springs News Online was founded in 1997 and was one of the world’s first newspapers on the web. Our online edition steadily grew in popularity, partly because of its archive of now six million words, a sought-after resource about the region for tourists, business and researchers.In March 2011 we judged that the online readership had well and truly surpassed the print edition readership, in a clear trend of the news reading public inexorably drifting to the web: We mothballed the paper edition.The Alice Springs News Online is still free, and offers outstanding advertising opportunities.