The Sun-Herald

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The Sun-Herald
Sun Herald Cover 14022010.jpg
Part of front page from 14 March 2010
TypeWeekly (Sunday)
Format Compact
Owner(s) Nine Entertainment
Founded11 October 1953
Political alignmentCentrist
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Circulation 264,434 (Dec 2013)
OCLC number 67710301
Website www.smh.com.au

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 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]

Contents

Its predecessor the broadsheet Sunday Herald was published in the years 1949–1953. [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 .

Liftouts and sections

Sponsorships

The City2Surf, a 14-kilometre fun run established in 1971, starting from the Sydney central business district and concluding at Bondi Beach, is organised by the Sun Herald, which along with Westpac serves as its sponsor. [7]

Digitisation

The paper has been partially digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia. [8] [9] [10]

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References

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  2. Ad Centre: The Sun-Herald, retrieved 13 May 2013
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  4. The Sunday Herald (Sydney, NSW: 1949 – 1953) at Trove
  5. Paper World: Sun Herald (Sunday NSW)
  6. The Sun Herald celebrates 70 years of informing and entertaining readers Nine Entertainment
  7. History of the City 2 Surf Archived 6 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  8. "Newspaper and magazine titles". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  9. "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
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