News.com.au

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news.com.au
News-com-au logo.svg
Format Online newspaper
Owner News Corp Australia
EditorKerry Warren [1]
Deputy editorLiz Burke [1]
News editorDaniel Peters; Ben Graham; Shannon Molloy [1]
Photo editorVictoria Nielsen [1]
Website www.news.com.au

News.com.au (stylised in all lowercase) is an Australian website owned by News Corp Australia. It had 9.6 million readers in April 2019 [2] and covers national and international news, lifestyle, travel, entertainment, technology, finance and sport.

Contents

Staff

The organisation employs about 80 journalists, among them Walkley award-winning journalist Samantha Maiden as national political editor, [3] and Joe Hildebrand as a columnist. [1]

Web analytics

According to third-party web analytics providers, Alexa Internet, news.com.au was the 12th most visited website in Australia in March 2022. [4] On the web analytics platform Similarweb news.com.au was ranked the 12th most visited website in Australia in January 2025 and was ranked number one in news & media publishers in Australia. [5] Similarweb also stated that the website attracted more than 74 million visitors in January 2025. [5] Nielsen Online Ratings rated news.com.au as Australia's most popular news website as of January 2015. [6]

Whilst frequently ranked as the number-one visited Australian news website in Australia during 2019; as of June 2020, news.com.au had slipped to the third most visited news website in Australia after ABC News Online and Daily Mail Australia. [7]

In November 2024, news.com.au was shown to be the second most-read news media of any format in Australia from an Ipsos iris ranking. [8]

Awards

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "The Editorial Team". news.com.au. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "April 2019 digital news rankings". The Nielsen Company (Press release). Sydney, Australia. 20 May 2019. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  3. ↑ "Samantha Maiden: "Hawaii Two-O: Scott Morrison's bushfire holiday" – All Media: Scoop of the Year". The Walkley Foundation. 2020. Archived from the original on 13 February 2025. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  4. ↑ "news.com.au Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Traffic Statistics. Archived from the original on 29 March 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  5. 1 2 "news.com.au Website Analysis for January 2025". Similarweb. January 2025. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  6. ↑ Burton-Bradley, Robert (11 February 2015). "News site audiences dive but News.com.au increases lead at the top of online ratings in January". Mumbrella . Archived from the original on 13 February 2025. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  7. ↑ Kelly, Vivienne (4 June 2020). "News.com.au tumbles to sixth in ranking of Australia's most popular websites, as ABC maintains lead". Mumbrella. Archived from the original on 13 February 2025. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  8. ↑ Jolly, Nathan (22 November 2024). "Readers flee from The Guardian, Herald, Daily Mail, and news.com.au". Mumbrella. Archived from the original on 13 February 2025. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
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