Brisbane Times

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Brisbane Times
Type News site
Format Online
Owner(s) Nine Entertainment
EditorRosanna Ryan [1]
Founded7 March 2007
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Website www.brisbanetimes.com.au

The Brisbane Times is an online newspaper with a focus on current affairs in Brisbane and Queensland, Australia. It is owned and run by Nine Publishing, which also publishes The Age , The Sydney Morning Herald and other mastheads. As of June 2025, the editor is Rosanna Ryan. [1]

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History

The Brisbane Times was launched as part of Fairfax Media on 7 March 2007 [2] by then-Queensland Premier Peter Beattie. [3] The founding managing editor was Mitchell Murphy. [4] The publication started with 14 journalists in an attempt by Fairfax to break into the South East Queensland market, competing against the website of News Corporation's incumbent The Courier-Mail .

As of 20 November 2018, Brisbane Times has started a subscription model. Viewers are limited to approximately 25 article views per month before being faced with a news paywall.

Web traffic

According to third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, the Brisbane Times is the 191st and 250th most visited website in Australia respectively, as of August 2015. [5] [6] SimilarWeb rates the site as the 24th most visited news website in Australia, attracting more than 2 million visitors per month. [6] [7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Brisbane Times announces key leadership appointments". Nine For Brands. Nine Entertainment. 6 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  2. ↑ Roberts, Greg; Sainsbury, Michael (8 March 2007). "Fairfax launches online in Brisbane". The Australian . Archived from the original on 18 July 2012.
  3. ↑ Shackle, Eric (11 March 2007). "Brisbane's Newest Newspaper Goes Online - OhmyNews International". OhMyNews . Retrieved 11 June 2008.
  4. ↑ "Fairfax embraces Brisbane". Sydney Morning Herald . 8 March 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  5. ↑ "Brisbanetimes.com.au Site Overview". Alexa. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Brisbanetimes.com.au Analytics". SimilarWeb. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Top 50 sites in Australia for News And Media". SimilarWeb. Archived from the original on 25 August 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
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