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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Nationwide News (News Corp Australia) |
| Editor | Ben English |
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| Political alignment | Centre-right |
| Headquarters | 2 Holt Street,Surry Hills, Sydney |
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| Sister newspapers | The Sunday Telegraph |
| ISSN | 1836-0203 |
| Website | www |
The Daily Telegraph, nicknamedThe Tele, is an Australiantabloidnewspaper[1] published by Nationwide News Pty Limited (NWN), a subsidiary ofNews Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary ofNews Corp. It is published Monday through Saturday and is available throughout Sydney, across most of regional and remote New South Wales, theAustralian Capital Territory andSouth East Queensland.
A 2013 poll conducted by Essential Research found that theTelegraph was Australia's least-trusted major newspaper, with 49% of respondents citing "a lot of" or "some" trust in the paper.[2][3] Amongst those ranked byNielsen, theTelegraph's website is the sixth most popular Australian news website with a unique monthly audience of 2,841,381 readers.[4]
The Daily Telegraph was founded in 1879,[5] by John Mooyart Lynch, a former printer, editor and journalist who had once worked on theMelbourne Daily Telegraph.[6] Lynch had failed in an attempt to become a politician and was looking to start his own paper to reflect the opinion of the commonworking man. Lynch put together a large team of backers, including an old friend Watkin Wynne, who was unusual for being a very wealthy journalist,[7] and Robert Sands, who ran the printing company John Sands. The first edition was published on 1 July 1879, costing only one penny. The first page of the first edition outlined Lynch's vision for his paper, saying:"We wish to make this journal a reliable exponent of public opinion, which we think is hardly represented in the existing press. Without disparaging existing journals in Sydney, which we fully admit have many excellencies, we believe that they have missed the great objective of journalism to be in sympathy with and to report public opinion."[8]
When sales of theTelegraph began to fall in 1882, the newspaper was taken over by Watkin Wynne. Wynne introduced shorter, punchier, stories and more sensationalism.[7]
TheTelegraph reported on various events and movements of the time. The paper was a strong advocate forFederation.[9]
Watkin Wynne remained in charge of the paper until his death in 1921.[10] Under his successors, the paper underwent major changes. In 1924, the paper began running news on the front page rather than just advertising. In 1927, declining circulation and financial troubles forced a switch from thebroadsheet format to the smaller tabloid format. In 1929, it was taken over by wealthy tobacco manufacturerSir Hugh Denison, the founder of the Sydney newspaperThe Sun.[11] In 1929, Denison formed Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL) with S Bennett Ltd and media ownerR. C. Packer. Denison later also acquired theDaily Guardian (which had been owned bySmith's Weekly), which he combined with theTelegraph News Pictorial to form the newDaily Telegraph.
The paper returned to a broadsheet format in 1931. From 1936 until its sale toRupert Murdoch'sNews Limited in 1972, theTelegraph was owned bySir Frank Packer'sAustralian Consolidated Press.[12] Packer sold theDaily Telegraph to Rupert Murdoch's company News Limited in 1972 for $15 million.[13]
In 1990, theDaily Telegraph merged with its afternoon stablemate,The Daily Mirror. The merged entity would resume the name ofThe Daily Telegraph in January 1996.
On Sundays, its counterpart isThe Sunday Telegraph.
ItsMelbourne counterparts are theHerald Sun andSunday Herald Sun. InBrisbane, it is linked withThe Courier-Mail andThe Sunday Mail, inAdelaide,The Advertiser andSunday Mail, inHobart,The Mercury andThe Sunday Tasmanian, inDarwin, TheNorthern Territory News andSunday Territorian.
Editorially,The Daily Telegraph has traditionally been opposed to theAustralian Labor Party, and is often a supporter of theLiberal Party of Australia.[14][15]
A 2004Roy Morgan media credibility survey found that 40% of journalists viewed News Limited (exclusive ofThe Australian) as Australia's most partisan media outlet, ahead of theAustralian Broadcasting Corporation on 25%. The survey found that readers took a generally dim view of journalists. In response to the question "Which newspapers do you believe do not accurately and fairly report the news?", theDaily Telegraph came third (9%) behind theHerald Sun (11%) and "All of them" (16%).[16]
At the2007 Australian federal election,The Daily Telegraph endorsed theAustralian Labor Party for the second time. At the2010 Australian federal election, the newspaper endorsed the Coalition andTony Abbott. In the 2013 election, theDaily Telegraph ran 177 stories that were pro-Coalition and 11 stories that leaned the other way.[17]
| Election | Endorsement | |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Labor | |
| 2010 | Coalition | |
| 2013 | Coalition | |
| 2016 | Coalition | |
| 2019 | Coalition | |
| 2022 | Coalition | |
| 2025 | Coalition | |
TheTelegraph is edited by Ben English. The previous editor wasChristopher Dore.[18] Dore's predecessors arePaul Whittaker, Gary Linnell,David Penberthy,[19] Campbell Reid,[19]David Banks,[20] andCol Allan, who served as editor-in-chief at the News Corporation-ownedNew York Post from 2001 to 2016.
Readership data from Enhanced Media Metrics Australia October 2018 report shows that theDaily Telegraph has total monthly readership of 4,500,000 people via print and digital, compared to 7,429,000 people for its primary competitor, theSydney Morning Herald.[21]
The Daily Telegraph's weekday print newspaper circulation fell from 310,724 in June 2013[22] to 221,641 in June 2017.[23] Saturday newspaper circulation fell to 221,996 over the same period.[22]
As of February 2019, third-partyweb analytics providerAlexa rankedThe Daily Telegraph's website as the 343rd most visited website in Australia (down from 90th in July 2015).[24]
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