The Sun-Herald

This article is about a newspaper published in Sydney, Australia. For the newspaper in Biloxi, Mississippi, see The Sun Herald.
Not to be confused with the Herald Sun newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia.
The Sun-Herald

Part of front page from 14 March 2010
Type Weekly (Sunday)
Format Compact
Owner(s) Fairfax Media
Founded 1953
Political alignment centrist
Language English
Headquarters 1 Darling Island Road, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia
Circulation 264,434 (Dec 2013)
Website www.sunherald.com.au

The Sun-Herald is an Australian newspaper published in tabloid or compact format on Sundays in Sydney by Fairfax Media. It is the Sunday counterpart of The Sydney Morning Herald. In the 6 months to September 2005, The Sun-Herald had a circulation of 515,000. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, its circulation had dropped to 443,257 as of December 2009[1] and to 313,477 as of December 2010, from which its management inferred a readership of 868,000.[2] Readership continued to tumble to 264,434 by the end of 2013, and has half the circulation of rival The Sunday Telegraph.[3]

Its predecessor the broadsheet Sunday Herald was published in the years 1949–1953.[4] In 1953 The Sunday Sun was merged with the Sunday Herald to become the tabloid Sun-Herald.[5]

Liftouts and sections

Sponsorships

The City2Surf, a 14-kilometre run from the city of Sydney to Bondi Beach, is organised by the Sun Herald.[6]

Digitisation

The paper has been partially digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.[7][8][9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Fairfax Ad Centre: The Sun-Herald Archived 11 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Ad Centre: The Sun-Herald, retrieved 13 May 2013
  3. ↑ , retrieved 1 Sept 2014
  4. ↑ The Sunday Herald (Sydney, NSW: 1949 - 1953) at Trove
  5. ↑ Paper World: Sun Herald (Sunday NSW)
  6. ↑ History of the City 2 Surf
  7. ↑ "Newspaper and magazine titles". Trove Digitised newspapers and more. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  8. ↑ "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  9. ↑ Brown, Jerelynn (2011). "Tabloids in the State Library of NSW collection: A reflection of life in Australia". Australian Journal of Communication. 38 (2): 107–121.


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