AS we celebrate out 400th edition on July 27, meet the crew at Coast Community News (CCN), which brings you the latest local news in print and online every week.
David Abrahams, who currently manages CCN’s operations, has been supplying digital and management services to Central Coast Newspapers for 10 years.
He has taken the company’s digital news services to a national audience by distributing the publication of local stories across services such as Google’s News Showcase, Apple News, Twitter, Facebook and numerous syndicated news services as well as two local radio stations.
CCN maintains an archive of over 17,000 local stories and each month our news articles are listed in over two million search results around the country, leading to more than 150,000 full articles bring read on coastcommunitynews.com.au
Abrahams is set to lead the next stage of the organisation’s evolution with bold plans to reshape and expand services, offering unrivalled local communications opportunities to local readers and participating advertisers.
Bringing you the news each week is our journalistic team, comprising Terry Collins, Sue Murray and Denice Barnes.
Head journalist Collins has been with the company for four years, following a career spanning almost 40 years with News Limited and a brief 18-month “retirement”, during which time she realised she wasn’t really ready to retire at all.
A Coastie since 1976, Collins has been covering regional news for decades and has a deep knowledge of ongoing issues and the things that matter most to readers.
Sue Murray’s career has always been devoted to community news. She formerly worked for various mastheads of Cumberland Newspapers (now a part of News Limited) and was editor of two, as well as working for Messenger Newspapers in Adelaide, Community Newspapers in Perth, and the Broome Advertiser and Kimberley Times when she was travelling for six years in a caravan around Australia.
She joined the CCN team in February, 2019, working originally on the former Wyong Regional Chronicle and Peninsula News.
Murray retired in November 2021, but soon realised she really wasn’t ready to hang up her hat and missed her journo mates so she came back to CCN on a part-time basis in April, 2022, just before the Chronicle published its last edition and was incorporated into CCN.
Collins and Murray have had a long working association spanning almost 40 years.
The latest addition to our new team is Denice Barnes.
She has more than 35 years’ experience as a print journalist, covering a number of positions as both an editor and senior reporter.
Barnes has specialised in several fields including health, council reporting, feature writing and politics.
More recently she has worked as a volunteer for several not-for-profit Central Coast organisations.
And who makes the paper look so good every week?
That would be Brad Yee, who has been a graphic designer for more than 10 years.
Before moving to the Coast, he lived on a 650-acre sheep and cattle farm running an 1830s cottage as a bed and breakfast while freelancing in graphic design.
He moved with his young family to the Coast in January, 2022, and came on board with CCN as a graphic designer in April of that year.
Six months later, he also took over advertising sales.
Ross Barry has been the publisher of CCN since 2019 when he took over from founding publisher Cec Bucello.
CCN is supported by a dedicated team of back office and distribution staff.
As we celebrate our 400th edition, we look forward to bringing you the latest regional news – both in print and online – for the next 400.
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why does the ccn seem to only report on Gosford area and not wyong.
Thank you Jean, it may seem that way some days as we report from across the vast region. A quick check today found of the 9 lead stories published today, 4 were related coast wide, 2 were specifically from the former Wyong Shire and 3 from former Gosford City.