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Newspapers in Australia
There are two national and 10 state/territory daily newspapers, 35 regional dailies and 470 other regional and suburban newspapers in Australia. Each state and territory has one or two dominant daily newspapers which focus upon the major national news while also containing news of importance for the state that it is sold in. These include: the Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Age (Melbourne), Herald Sun (Melbourne) and Canberra Times. The two national daily newspapers are The Australian and the Australian Financial Review, which are owned by different companies. Nearly all major metropolitan newspapers are owned either by News Corp Australia, or Nine Entertainment, with notable exceptions including The West Australian and The Sunday Times in Perth, and The Canberra Times in the nation's capital city.
Other notable newspapers and news websites are: news.com.au, ABC News Online, Seven News Online, SBS News Online, Nine News, the Guardian Australia, The New Daily and The Saturday Paper. Increasingly, news material is published online in Australia, sometimes exclusively.
Australia's first newspaper was the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, which began in 1803. In 1810, the second newspaper in Australia, the Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer was founded in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), but it was short-lived and ceased publication the same year.
These early newspapers were subject to government censorship. The first to be free of this restriction was the Sydney newspaper The Australian (1824). The governor of New South Wales realised there was little point continuing to censor the Sydney Gazette when its rival was free of censorship and so the freedom of the press began in Australia.
Victoria's first paper was the Melbourne Advertiser, which began in 1838. By the mid-1850s, there were 11 papers in Tasmania alone. The Tasmanian and Port Dalrymple Advertiser founded in Launceston in 1825 was the first provincial newspaper in Australia.
Early newspapers tended to consist of four pages and generally appeared one or two days a week. They were hindered by occasional shortages of suitable paper, ink, compositors and printers. Publication sometimes had to be suspended due to such shortages.[citation needed]
Australia's longest-running newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald, was first published as the Sydney Herald in 1831. The Herald's rival, The Daily Telegraph, was first published in July 1879. Weekly newspapers were an important feature of the Australian newspaper scene in the nineteenth century. Illustrated newspapers became increasingly important from 1850 onwards. They initially featured wood-engravings and toward the end of the nineteenth century black and white photographs began to appear.
Australia's first foreign-language newspaper, Die Deutsche Post für die australischen Kolonien, was published in Adelaide from 1848 to 1850.
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Newspapers in Australia
There are two national and 10 state/territory daily newspapers, 35 regional dailies and 470 other regional and suburban newspapers in Australia. Each state and territory has one or two dominant daily newspapers which focus upon the major national news while also containing news of importance for the state that it is sold in. These include: the Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Age (Melbourne), Herald Sun (Melbourne) and Canberra Times. The two national daily newspapers are The Australian and the Australian Financial Review, which are owned by different companies. Nearly all major metropolitan newspapers are owned either by News Corp Australia, or Nine Entertainment, with notable exceptions including The West Australian and The Sunday Times in Perth, and The Canberra Times in the nation's capital city.
Other notable newspapers and news websites are: news.com.au, ABC News Online, Seven News Online, SBS News Online, Nine News, the Guardian Australia, The New Daily and The Saturday Paper. Increasingly, news material is published online in Australia, sometimes exclusively.
Australia's first newspaper was the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, which began in 1803. In 1810, the second newspaper in Australia, the Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer was founded in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), but it was short-lived and ceased publication the same year.
These early newspapers were subject to government censorship. The first to be free of this restriction was the Sydney newspaper The Australian (1824). The governor of New South Wales realised there was little point continuing to censor the Sydney Gazette when its rival was free of censorship and so the freedom of the press began in Australia.
Victoria's first paper was the Melbourne Advertiser, which began in 1838. By the mid-1850s, there were 11 papers in Tasmania alone. The Tasmanian and Port Dalrymple Advertiser founded in Launceston in 1825 was the first provincial newspaper in Australia.
Early newspapers tended to consist of four pages and generally appeared one or two days a week. They were hindered by occasional shortages of suitable paper, ink, compositors and printers. Publication sometimes had to be suspended due to such shortages.[citation needed]
Australia's longest-running newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald, was first published as the Sydney Herald in 1831. The Herald's rival, The Daily Telegraph, was first published in July 1879. Weekly newspapers were an important feature of the Australian newspaper scene in the nineteenth century. Illustrated newspapers became increasingly important from 1850 onwards. They initially featured wood-engravings and toward the end of the nineteenth century black and white photographs began to appear.
Australia's first foreign-language newspaper, Die Deutsche Post für die australischen Kolonien, was published in Adelaide from 1848 to 1850.
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