Brisbane Times

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Type News site
Format Online
Owner(s) Nine Entertainment Co.
EditorSean Parnell
Founded7 March 2007
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Website www.brisbanetimes.com.au

Brisbane Times is an online newspaper for Brisbane and Queensland, Australia.

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History

The Brisbane Times was launched on 7 March 2007 [1] by then-Queensland Premier Peter Beattie. [2] 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.

Ownership

It is owned and run by Nine Publishing, publishers of Melbourne's The Age , The Sydney Morning Herald and other mastheads, plus subject-focused websites and business-centered magazine titles. The founding managing editor was Mitchell Murphy; [3] the current editor is Sean Parnell.

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. [4] [5] SimilarWeb rates the site as the 24th most visited news website in Australia, attracting more than 2 million visitors per month. [5] [6]

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