Sydney Morning Herald
The front page of The Sydney Morning Herald (May 9, 2016), occupied with a report on the start of the 2016 federal election campaign.
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Compact |
| Owner(s) | Fairfax Media |
| Founder(s) | Ward Stephens, Frederick Stokes and William McGarvie |
| Editor | Lisa Davies |
| Founded | 18 April 1831 |
| Political alignment | Centre |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 1 Darling Island Road, Pyrmont, New South Wales |
| Circulation | 104,000 (February 2016) |
| Sister newspapers |
The Sun-Herald (Sunday edition) The Age (Melbourne) |
| ISSN | 0312-6315 |
| OCLC number | 226369741 |
| Website | www |
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and a national online news brand. The newspaper is published six days a week. It is available at outlets in Sydney, regional New South Wales, Canberra, and South East Queensland (Brisbane, Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast).
The Sydney Morning Herald includes a variety of supplements, including the magazines Good Weekend (which is included in the Saturday edition of The Sydney Morning Herald); and Sunday Life. There are a variety of lift-outs, some of them co-branded with Fairfax Media's online classified advertising sites:
According to Roy Morgan Research Readship Surveys, in the twelve months to March 2011, the paper was read 766,000 times on Monday to Friday, and read 1,014,000 times on Saturdays. The Audit Bureau of Circulations's audit on newspaper circulation states that in December 2013 an average of 132,000 copies were sold, Monday to Friday, and 228,000 copies on Saturday, both having declined 16% in 12 months. By February 2016, average circulation had fallen to 104,000.
Concerning the newspaper's website smh.com.au, third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb rate the site as the 17th and 32nd most visited website in Australia respectively, as of July 2015. SimilarWeb rates the site as the fifth most visited news website in Australia and as the 42nd newspaper's website globally, attracting more than 15 million visitors per month.
The editor is Lisa Davies. Former editors include Darren Goodsir, Judith Whelan, Sean Aylmer, Peter Fray, Amanda Wilson (the first female editor, appointed in 2011),William Curnow,Andrew Garran, Frederick William Ward, Charles Brunsdon Fletcher, Colin Bingham, Max Prisk, John Alexander, Paul McGeough, Alan Revell and Alan Oakley
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