Record (magazine)

RECORD

Record issue 115:9 (17 April 2010) featuring Dr. Ben Carson
Editor	Jarrod Stackelroth
Categories	Christian – Seventh-day Adventist
Frequency	Fortnightly
Circulation	26,000
First issue	January–February 1898
Company	Adventist Media Network / Signs Publishing Company?
Country	Australia
Based in	Sydney, New South Wales
Language	English
Website	Record.net.au
ISSN	0819-5633

The Record is the fortnightly (biweekly) news magazine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific region of the church. Its office is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and connected with the Adventist Media Network. The magazine is printed by Signs Publishing Company, located outside of Melbourne, in Victoria.

Record was first published in 1898 in Victoria, replacing an earlier title known as the Gleaner. It currently has a circulation of 26,000, mainly to Seventh-day Adventists in Australia and New Zealand. Jarrod Stackelroth is the current senior editor. In April 2010, distribution also commenced in urban areas of the Fiji Islands and Papua New Guinea. Adventists receive it free of charge at church.

The first issue of the Record was published in 1898; however, it stemmed from an earlier publication, the Gleaner. The Australasian Union Gleaner began earlier in a type-written form, and reported on the church's evangelistic progress. A new version of the Gleaner was first published in 1896. It was published monthly by the Australian Tract Society, and printed by the Echo Publishing Company (now Signs Publishing Company) in the Melbourne suburb of North Fitzroy which (today, at least) is an inner suburb. The last issue was published the following year.

The Tract Society divided, and responsibility for the publication passed to the Australasian Union Conference (now South Pacific Division), and it was renamed the Union Conference Record, or Record for short. The first issue was published in early 1898. It was published monthly, until mid-1902, when it was published twice a month. Starting in early 1907, the paper was published weekly.

Meanwhile, in 1906 the Signs Publishing Company had moved to the small town of Warburton, situated 85 km east of Melbourne's center. Also, some issues were printed by the Avondale Press in Cooranbong in the Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales.