The Age

The Age
Front page of The Age (11 May 2020)
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact
Owner(s)Nine Entertainment
EditorPatrick Elligett
Founded17 October 1854; 169 years ago (1854-10-17)
Political alignmentCentre
HeadquartersMelbourne, Australia
ReadershipTotal 5.321 million, Digital 4.849 million, Print 1.198 million (EMMA, March 2020)
ISSN0312-6307
Websitetheage.com.au

The Age is a daily tabloid newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald.

The Age is considered a newspaper of record for Australia,[1] and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. As of March 2020, The Age had a monthly readership of 5.4 million.

  1. ^ Corey Frost; Karen Weingarten; Doug Babington; Don LePan; Maureen Okun (30 May 2017). The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students (6th ed.). Broadview Press. pp. 27–. ISBN 978-1-55481-313-1. Archived from the original on 29 June 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2020.