Daily Telegraph (Australia)

The Daily Telegraph

Cover of The Daily Telegraph (May 26, 2016), occupied by a hit piece on David Feeney, during the 2016 federal election campaign.
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	News Corp Australia
Editor	Chris Dore
Founded	The Daily Telegraph 1879 The Daily Telegraph-Mirror 1990 (merger with The Daily Mirror) The Daily Telegraph 1996
Political alignment	conservative, populist
Headquarters	2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
Circulation	280,731 (Weekdays) 265,711 (Saturday) (as of 2013-14 financial year)
Readership	1,191,000 (Weekdays) 909,000 (Saturday)
Website	www.dailytelegraph.com.au

The Daily Telegraph is a Australian daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales by Nationwide News, a subdivision of News Corp.

The Daily Telegraph is published Monday through Saturday and is available throughout Sydney, across most of regional and remote New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. On 19 November 2010, The Daily Telegraph released their iPad application enabling users to view a custom version of the website.

The Tele, as it is also known, was founded in 1879. From 1936 to 1972, it was owned by Sir Frank Packer's Australian Consolidated Press. That year it was sold to News Limited (now News Corp Australia).

The paper ran as a Broadsheet until 1927, when it switched to a tabloid format. The paper returned to a broadsheet format in 1931, but wartime paper restrictions saw it return to tabloid format in 1942.

In October 1990, it merged with its afternoon sister paper The Daily Mirror to form The Daily Telegraph-Mirror with morning and afternoon editions.The new paper continued in this vein until January 1996 when reader pressure for a shorter title caused the name of the paper to revert to The Daily Telegraph, despite staff concerns that former Mirror readers would now feel disenfranchised. The paper continued morning and afternoon editions until January 2002, when the afternoon edition was discontinued.

The circulation of the newspaper during the June quarter 2013 was 310,724 on weekdays, the largest of a Sydney newspaper. In the 2013-14 financial year it decreased 9.65% to 280,731.