The Gazette's influence in the British Empire
Although unsurprisingly the Sydney Gazette had the largest influence within its own sphere of New South Wales, writings from the paper were regularly reproduced in publications all over the empire. In one scholarly essay it is reported that "From [starting the paper] until his untimely death in 1821, rumours and reportage from his Sydney Gazette trudged steadily along the empire’s labyrinthine news networks, becoming the primary source of Australian intelligence in the Scottish press" (Beals). For both people with connections living in New South Wales and many others with a vested interest in the colony, for two decades The Sydney Gazette served as the only news source coming directly out of the colony. Along with the economic growth of the colony and increased relevance to the British empire, the blossoming print industry of the 1820s and 30s continued to spread stories, opinions, economic data, governmental announcements and more to the rest of the world.