Herald-Sun
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 Herald Sun front page 12 December 2005, reporting on the 2005 Cronulla riots |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | The Herald and Weekly Times (News Corp Australia) |
| Editor | Damon Johnston |
| Founded |
The Port Phillip Herald (3 January 1840) The Melbourne Morning Herald (1 January 1849) The Melbourne Herald (1 January 1855) The Herald (8 September 1855) The Sun News-Pictorial (11 September 1922) The Herald Sun (8 October 1990) |
| Political alignment | Right |
| Headquarters | The Herald and Weekly Times Tower, 40 City Road, Southbank, Victoria, Australia |
| Website | Official website (Note: Some services may only be available via pre-billed subscription |
The Herald Sun is a morning newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia published by The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and NSW South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In March 2009, the paper had a daily circulation of 530,000 from Monday to Friday.
The Herald Sun newspaper is the product of a merger in 1990 of two newspapers owned by The Herald and Weekly Times Limited: the morning paper The Sun News-Pictorial (printed in tabloid format) and the afternoon broadsheet paper The Herald. It was first published on 8 October 1990 as the Herald-Sun. The hyphen in its title was dropped after 1 May 1993 as part of an effort to drop the overt reminder of the paper's two predecessors that the hyphen implied and also by the fact that by 1993 most of the columns and features inherited from The Herald and The Sun News-Pictorial had either been discontinued or subsumed completely in new sections.
The Herald was founded on 3 January 1840 by George Cavenagh as the Port Phillip Herald. In 1849, it became The Melbourne Morning Herald. At the beginning of 1855, it became The Melbourne Herald before settling on The Herald from 8 September 1855 - the name it would hold for the next 135 years. From 1869, it was an evening newspaper. Colonel William Thomas Reay was sometime literary editor and later associate editor, before becoming managing editor in 1904. When The Argus newspaper closed in 1957, The Herald and Weekly Times bought out and continued various Argus media assets. In 1986, The Herald's Saturday edition - The Weekend Herald - which had adopted a tabloid format, in order to distinguish it from the Monday to Friday editions' broadsheet format - was closed.
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