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This article is about a newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia. For the newspaper published in Durham, North Carolina, USA, see The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina). The Herald-Sun is a daily Newspaper in Durham North Carolina, published by the Paxton Media Group of Paducah Kentucky.
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Herald Sun front page 12 December 2005
Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner Herald and Weekly Times Ltd (News Corporation)
Editor Bruce Guthrie
Founded 8 October 1990
(The Herald – 1840,
The Sun News-Pictorial – 1922)
Political allegiance Centre-right
Headquarters 40 City Road,
Southbank, Victoria, Australia
Website: www.heraldsun.com.au

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The Herald Sun is the highest daily circulating newspaper in Australia, with a weekday circulation of 551,100 and readership of 1,500,000.

Contents

Origins

The Herald Sun newspaper was formed in 1990 from a merger of the morning tabloid paper The Sun News-Pictorial with its afternoon broadsheet sister paper The Herald. A tabloid is a Newspaper industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest The Sun News-Pictorial, commonly known as The Sun, was a morning daily tabloid newspaper in Melbourne Australia established in 1922 and closed in 1990 Broadsheet is the largest of the various Newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically 22 inches or more The Herald was a Broadsheet Newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia from 1840 to 1990 It was first published on 8 October 1990 as The Herald-Sun. Events 314 - Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) The hyphen in its title was later dropped; the last hyphenated masthead appeared on May 1, 1993. Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar)

History

The Herald

The old Herald and Weekly Times building in Flinders Street.
The old Herald and Weekly Times building in Flinders Street.

The Herald was founded on January 3, 1840, by George Cavanaugh as The Port Phillip Herald. Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year George Andrew Cavanaugh was born to Lucas Cavanaugh and Alison Pinkston In 1855 it became The Melbourne Herald for all of one week before settling on The Herald. Year 1855 ( MDCCCLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year From 1869, it was an evening newspaper.

The Sun News-Pictorial

The Sun News-Pictorial was founded on 11 September 1922, and bought by the HWT in 1925. The Sun News-Pictorial, commonly known as The Sun, was a morning daily tabloid newspaper in Melbourne Australia established in 1922 and closed in 1990 Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

The merger

In its heyday, The Herald had a circulation of almost 600,000, but by the time of its 150th anniversary in 1990, with the impact of evening television news and a higher proportion of people using cars to get home from work, The Herald's circulation had fallen below 200,000. An anniversary (from the Latin anniversarius, from the words for year and to turn meaning (returning yearly known in English since c. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic This was much less than that of the morning Sun.

As a result, the HWT decided to merge the two, and so after one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days of publication, The Herald was published for the last time as a separate newspaper on 5 October 1990. Events 869 - The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) The next day, The Sun News-Pictorial published its last edition. Shortly before this, the Sunday editions of the two newspapers had been merged.

The resulting newspaper had both the size and style of The Sun.

Print editions

Like most morning newspapers, Herald Sun was released as a number of editions throughout the day. However after mX became established in the early 2000s, a give-away afternoon newspaper also by the HWT, the afternoon edition was scrapped. mX is an Australian free afternoon daily newspaper in the cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, owned and produced

Liftouts, sections and features

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Daily features (Monday to Saturday)

Collectable items

Over the years, the Herald Sun has had a range of magazines, pins and memorabilia (usually with an outside partner) that could be obtained by either getting it out of the newspaper, or using a token from the newspaper to collect or purchase the item. Items that have been a part of this scheme include:

Criticisms

Critics say that the Herald Sun exhibits a right-wing bias, with some arguing that it reflects the view of Rupert Murdoch, who is the chief executive officer of Herald Sun's parent company. The Australian Football League (AFL is both the professional Australian national competition in the Sport of Australian Rules Football and its highest The Australian national football team represents Australia in international association football competitions The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian television network based in Willoughby, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory " is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to but not writable Dorling Kindersley is a leading publisher of illustrated reference books is gay Bold text' Keith Rupert Murdoch', AC, KCSG (born Melbourne, March 11 1931 usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-American In reference to this perceived bias, some have taken to calling it "The Hun" (for example, ABC TV's Media Watch, on 1 May 2006). ABC Television is a service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched in 1956 Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. [1]

Shortly before the 2004 election, the Herald Sun published an article entitled "Greens back illegal drugs" (Herald Sun, 31/8/2004) written by Gerard McManus which made a number of claims about the Australian Greens based on policies posted on their website at the time. Federal elections were held in Australia on 9 October, 2004. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member The Australian Greens, commonly known as The Greens, is a Green Australian political party. The Greens complained to the Australian Press Council after withdrawing the policy statements from their website (but prior to the story being printed). The Australian Press Council is the self-regulatory body of the Australian Print media. The text of their adjudication reads:

In the context of an approaching election, the potential damage was considerable. The actual electoral impact cannot be known but readers were seriously misled. [. . . ] The claims made in the original article were seriously inaccurate and breached the Council's guiding principles of checking the accuracy of what is reported, taking prompt measures to counter the effects of harmfully inaccurate reporting, ensuring that the facts are not distorted, and being fair and balanced in reports on matters of public concern.

The newspaper published what the Greens saw as an unenthusiastic apologetic of the original article. Claims have been made that the paper has a strong bias in favour of the Liberal Party [2] The columnist Andrew Bolt often takes controversial positions, and attracts anger from the left. The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. Andrew Bolt (born 26 September 1959 is an Australian Newspaper Columnist and conservative pundit. John Pilger has described him as "the lowest of journalism's low, an extreme right wing and aggressively idiotic member of Murdoch's dominant press group in Australia". John Richard Pilger (born October 9, 1939) is a multi-award-winning Australian born journalist and documentary filmmaker from [3]

Notable journalists and columnists

See also

References

  1. ^ Media Watch Transcript
  2. ^ Your Democracy
  3. ^ ZMAG
  4. ^ Tributes for TV expert Robert Fidgeon

External links

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