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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Nine Entertainment Co. (since 2018) |
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| Publisher | Nine Entertainment Co. |
| Editor | Bevan Shields[1] |
| Deputy editor | Liam Phelan |
| Associate editor | Deborah Snow |
| Managing editor | Monique Farmer |
| Sports editor | Ben Coady |
| Photo editor | Mags King |
| Staff writers | 700+[citation needed] |
| Founded | April 1831 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 1 Denison Street, North Sydney, Australia |
| Circulation | 231,232 (2018)[a][2] |
| Readership | 808,000 (weekly)[3] |
| Sister newspapers | |
| ISSN | 0312-6315 |
| OCLC number | 226369741 |
| Website | smh.com.au |
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the Herald is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country.[3] The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as The Sydney Morning Herald and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, The Sun-Herald and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week.[4] It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia.[5][6] The print edition of The Sydney Morning Herald is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland.
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- ^ a b "The Sydney Morning Herald is the country's largest masthead". Sydney Morning Herald. 21 November 2022. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "The Sydney Morning Herald digital editions". S Media. 28 September 2020. Archived from the original on 11 February 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ Simons, Margaret; Buller, Bradley (December 2013). "Journals of Record – Measure of Quality, or Dead Concept?" (PDF). Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
- ^ "What We're Reading". The New York Times. 14 October 2011. Archived from the original on 18 February 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
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