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 Johnson |
Founded | The Port Phillip Herald (3 January 1840) The Melbourne Morning Herald (1 January 1849) The Melbourne Herald (beginning of 1855) The Herald: 8 September 1855 The Sun News-Pictorial: 11 September 1922 The Herald Sun: 8 October 1990 |
Political alignment | Centre-right |
Headquarters | The HWT Tower, 40 City Road, Southbank, Victoria, Australia |
Website | www.heraldsun.com.au (note:some services may only be available via pre-billed subscription |
The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in the suburb of Southbank 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 tabloid paper The Sun News-Pictorial 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.