The Rural City of Murray Bridge is a local government area in the Murraylands of South Australia. Its namesake and seat of local government is about 75km east-south-east from Adelaide.

One print newspaper, one independent digital publication, four radio stations and three television stations serve Murray Bridge. The Murray Valley Standard is a weekly Australian Community Media newspaper first published in 1934. In the early months of COVID-19 the newspaper suspended production, during which time the Murray Bridge News to fill the vacuum for local news.

The region is part of the ABC Adelaide coverage area, though on the outer edge of it. ABC Riverland is based more than 200km to the north-east in Renmark, but searching the Murray Bridge story tag on the ABC website suggests some previous coverage by this newsroom. We have included it in the sample on this basis.