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| Type | Weekly (Sunday) |
|---|---|
| Format | Compact |
| Owner(s) | Nine Entertainment |
| Founded | 11 October 1953 |
| Political alignment | Centrist[ citation needed ] |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Circulation | 264,434 (December 2013) |
| ISSN | 1323-1987 |
| OCLC number | 67710301 |
| Website | www |
The Sun-Herald is an Australian newspaper published in tabloid or compact format on Sundays in Sydney by Nine Entertainment. It is the Sunday counterpart of The Sydney Morning Herald . In the six 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 [update] [1] and to 313,477 as of December 2010 [update] , 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]
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Its predecessor broadsheet was known as The Sunday Herald and published in the years 1949 to 1953. [4] In 1953, Fairfax Media bought The Sun , an afternoon paper, and merged its Sunday edition with the Sunday Herald to become the tabloid Sun-Herald. [5] [6]
The Brisbane edition of The Sun-Herald has content from the Brisbane Times .
On 23 May 2010, The Sun-Herald published its first section in 3D with included glasses, the first of its kind in Australia. The sections were sponsored by Harvey Norman and intended to promote the then-upcoming State of Origin rugby league series. [7]
