The Age

The Age

The front page of The Age on 4 March 2013
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Compact
Owner(s)	Fairfax Media
Editor	Alex Lavelle (Acting)
Founded	1854
Political alignment	Centre
Headquarters	Melbourne, Australia
Circulation	Weekday 131,000 Saturday 196,000 Sunday 164,000
ISSN	0312-6307
OCLC number	224060909
Website	theage.com.au

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered in both hardcopy and online formats. The newspaper shares many articles with other Fairfax Media metropolitan daily newspapers, such as The Sydney Morning Herald.

As at December 2013, The Age had an average weekday circulation of 131,000, increasing to 196,000 on Saturdays (in a city of 4.2 million).The Sunday Age had a circulation of 164,000. These represented year-on-year declines of 14% to 17%. The Age's website, according to third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, is the 44th and 58th most visited website in Australia respectively, as of July 2015. SimilarWeb rates the site as the seventh most visited news website in Australia, attracting more than 7 million visitors per month.

The management board announced on 18 June 2012, that during the following three years, 1,900 positions were expected to be terminated from Fairfax Media, including many from The Age, that the broadsheet format would be changed to a compact format and that the online version would no longer have free access after the introduction of a paywall to protect content with an expectation of increased revenue. The newspaper went compact in March 2013, with the Saturday and Sunday editions retaining the broadsheet format. On 22/23 February 2014, the final weekend edition were produced in broadsheet format with these too converted to compact format on 1/2 March 2014.