Herald Sun

This article is about the newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia. For the newspaper published in Durham, North Carolina, USA, see The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina).
Not to be confused with The Sun-Herald newspaper published in Sydney, Australia or the Sun Herald published in Biloxi, Mississippi.
"The Sunday Herald-Sun" redirects here. Not to be confused with Sunday Herald or The Sunday Sun.

Herald Sun
Herald Sun front page 12 December 2005, reporting on the 2005 Cronulla riots
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)The Herald and Weekly Times (News Corp Australia)
EditorSam Weir
FoundedThe 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 alignmentRight-wing[1]
HeadquartersThe Herald and Weekly Times Tower, 40 City Road,
Southbank, Victoria, Australia (formerly The Herald and Weekly Times Building, 44-74 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from 1990 to 1995)
WebsiteOfficial website (Note: Some services may only be available via pre-billed subscription[2]
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The Herald Sun is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Melbourne and the state of 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 the South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In 2017, the paper had a daily circulation of 350,000 from Monday to Friday.[3]

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.

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