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• The Sun-Herald
• The Age

{edih}| ISSN = 0312-6315| oclc = 226369741www.smh.com.au/|smh.com.au}}}}The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the Herald is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely-read masthead in the country. The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as The Sydney Morning Herald and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, The Sun-Herald and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week.WEB, 2020-09-28, The Sydney Morning Herald digital editions,todayspaper.smedia.com.au/smh/default.aspx, 2020-09-28, S Media, en, 11 February 2021,todayspaper.smedia.com.au/smh/default.aspx," title="web.archive.org/web/20210211181852todayspaper.smedia.com.au/smh/default.aspx,">web.archive.org/web/20210211181852todayspaper.smedia.com.au/smh/default.aspx, live, It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia.WEB, Journals of Record – Measure of Quality, or Dead Concept?,jeaa.org.au/file/file/Simons%20and%20Buller%20-%20Journals%20of%20record%281%29.pdf, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne, 6 May 2014, Simons, Margaret, Buller, Bradley,jeaa.org.au/file/file/Simons%20and%20Buller%20-%20Journals%20of%20record(1).pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20140125015402jeaa.org.au/file/file/Simons%20and%20Buller%20-%20Journals%20of%20record(1).pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20140125015402jeaa.org.au/file/file/Simons%20and%20Buller%20-%20Journals%20of%20record(1).pdf, 25 January 2014, dead, December 2013, NEWS, What We’re Reading,dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/what-were-reading-290/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0, 6 May 2014, The New York Times, 14 October 2011,dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/what-were-reading-290/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0," title="web.archive.org/web/20150218205653dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/what-were-reading-290/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0,">web.archive.org/web/20150218205653dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/what-were-reading-290/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0, live, 18 February 2015, The print edition of The Sydney Morning Herald is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland.

Overview

The Sydney Morning Herald publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines Good Weekend (included in the Saturday edition of The Sydney Morning Herald); and Sunday Life. There are a variety of lift-outs, some of them co-branded with online classified-advertising sites:

• The Guide (television) on Mondays
• Good Food (food) and Domain (real estate) on Tuesdays
• Money (personal finance) on Wednesdays
• Drive (motoring), Shortlist (entertainment) on Fridays
• News Review, Spectrum (arts and entertainment guide), Domain (real estate), Drive (motoring) and MyCareer (employment) on Saturdays

The executive editor is James Chessell and the editor is Bevan Shields. Tory Maguire is national editor, Monique Farmer is life editor, and the publisher is chief digital and publishing officer Chris Janz.Former editors include Darren Goodsir, Judith Whelan, Sean Aylmer, Peter Fray, Meryl Constance, Amanda Wilson (the first female editor, appointed in 2011),NEWS,www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/herald-appoints-first-woman-editor-in-its-180year-history-20110110-19l78.html, Herald appoints first woman editor in its 180-year history, Dick, Tim, 11 January 2011, The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 November 2017,www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/herald-appoints-first-woman-editor-in-its-180year-history-20110110-19l78.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20171202132335www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/herald-appoints-first-woman-editor-in-its-180year-history-20110110-19l78.html,">web.archive.org/web/20171202132335www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/herald-appoints-first-woman-editor-in-its-180year-history-20110110-19l78.html, 2 December 2017, live, William Curnow,John Langdon Bonython, Address of the President, Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Volume XXIV, Parts 1 and 2, 1933–34, p8. Andrew Garran, Frederick William Ward (editor from 1884 to 1890), Charles Brunsdon Fletcher, Colin Bingham, Max Prisk, John Alexander, Paul McGeough, Alan Revell, Alan Oakley, and Lisa Davies.

History

(File:First smh cover.jpg|thumb|The cover of the newspaper’s first edition, on 18 April 1831)(File:Herald Office, Sydney (3003586345).jpg|thumb|Sydney Morning Herald building on the corner of Pitt and Hunter Streets, built 1856, demolished in the 1920s for a larger building)The Sydney Herald was founded in 1831 by three employees of the now-defunct Sydney Gazette: Ward Stephens, Frederick Stokes, and William McGarvie. A Centenary Supplement (since digitised) was published in 1931.NEWS,www.smh.com.au/cqstatic/gj1ymc/centenary%20%281%29.pdf, The Sydney Morning Herald Centenary Supplement 1831 – April 18th – 1931, 1831, The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 April 2016,www.smh.com.au/cqstatic/gj1ymc/centenary%20%281%29.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20160921181405www.smh.com.au/cqstatic/gj1ymc/centenary%20%281%29.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20160921181405www.smh.com.au/cqstatic/gj1ymc/centenary%20%281%29.pdf, 21 September 2016, dead, The original four-page weekly had a print run of 750. The newspaper began to publish daily in 1840, and the operation was purchased in 1841 by an Englishman named John Fairfax who renamed it The Sydney Morning Herald the following year.NEWS,www.britannica.com/topic/The-Sydney-Morning-Herald, The Sydney Morning Herald {{!, Australian newspaper|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=4 September 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904212804www.britannica.com/topic/The-Sydney-Morning-Herald|archive-date=4 September 2017|url-status=live}} Fairfax, whose family were to control the newspaper for almost 150 years, based his editorial policies “upon principles of candour, honesty and honour. We have no wish to mislead; no interest to gratify by unsparing abuse or indiscriminate approbation.“Donald Murray, who invented a predecessor of the teleprinter, worked at the Herald during the 1890s.New Zealand’s Donald Murray: The Father of the Remote Typewriter {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407221357oztypewriter.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-zealands-donald-murray-father-of.html |date=7 April 2018 }}, Australian Typewriter Museum, Canberra, 9 March 2012; accessed 10 March 2012 A weekly “Page for Women” was added in 1905, edited by Theodosia Ada Wallace.ENCYCLOPEDIA,adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wallace-theodosia-ada-13234, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Wallace, Theodosia Ada (1872–1953), Arrowsmith, Robyn, 2005, 14 October 2014, The SMH was late to the trend of printing news rather than just advertising on the front page, doing so from 15 April 1944. Of the country’s metropolitan dailies, only The West Australian was later in making the switch. The newspaper launched a Sunday edition, The Sunday Herald, in 1949. Four years later, this was merged with the newly acquired Sun newspaper to create The Sun-Herald, which continues to this day.By the mid-1960s, a new competitor had appeared in Rupert Murdoch’s national daily The Australian, which was first published on 15 July 1964.John Fairfax & Sons Limited commemorated the Herald’s 150th anniversary in 1981 by presenting the City of Sydney with Stephen Walker’s sculpture, Tank Stream Fountain.WEB, Tank Stream Fountain {{!, City Art Sydney|url=https://www.cityartsydney.com.au/artwork/tank-stream-fountain/|access-date=2021-08-25|website=www.cityartsydney.com.au|archive-date=25 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825043530www.cityartsydney.com.au/artwork/tank-stream-fountain/|url-status=live}}In 1995, the company launched the newspaper’s web edition smh.com.au.WEB,www.smh.com.au/, Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online, The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 November 2017,www.smh.com.au/," title="web.archive.org/web/20110223223429www.smh.com.au/,">web.archive.org/web/20110223223429www.smh.com.au/, 23 February 2011, live, The site has since grown to include interactive and multimedia features beyond the content in the print edition. Around the same time, the organisation moved from Jones Street to new offices at Darling Park and built a new printing press at Chullora, in the city’s west. The SMH later moved with other Sydney Fairfax divisions to a building at Darling Island.In May 2007, Fairfax Media announced it would be moving from a broadsheet format to the smaller compact or tabloid-size, in the footsteps of The Times, for both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.NEWS,www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/smage-journos-must-adapt/story-e6frg996-1111113457677, ‘Smage’ journos must adapt, The Australian, 5 July 2011, 3 May 2007, Tabakoff, Nick, After abandoning these plans later in the year, Fairfax Media again announced in June 2012 its plan to shift both broadsheet newspapers to tabloid size, with effect from March 2013.NEWS, Souter, Gavin, History makes way for compact future,www.smh.com.au/national/history-makes-way-for-compact-future-20130228-2f8xj.html, 1 March 2013, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 March 2013,www.smh.com.au/national/history-makes-way-for-compact-future-20130228-2f8xj.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20130302155321www.smh.com.au/national/history-makes-way-for-compact-future-20130228-2f8xj.html,">web.archive.org/web/20130302155321www.smh.com.au/national/history-makes-way-for-compact-future-20130228-2f8xj.html, 2 March 2013, live, Fairfax also announced it would cut staff across the entire group by 1,900 over three years and erect paywalls around the papers’ websites.WEB, Zappone, Chris, Fairfax to shed 1900 staff, erect paywalls,www.smh.com.au/business/fairfax-to-shed-1900-staff-erect-paywalls-20120618-20ix1.html, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 June 2012, 18 June 2012,www.smh.com.au/business/fairfax-to-shed-1900-staff-erect-paywalls-20120618-20ix1.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20120619054053www.smh.com.au/business/fairfax-to-shed-1900-staff-erect-paywalls-20120618-20ix1.html,">web.archive.org/web/20120619054053www.smh.com.au/business/fairfax-to-shed-1900-staff-erect-paywalls-20120618-20ix1.html, 19 June 2012, live, The subscription type was to be a freemium model, limiting readers to a number of free stories per month, with a payment required for further access.NEWS,www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/fairfax-moves-to-freemium-model-20120618-20jgq.html, Fairfax moves to ‘freemium’ model, Simpson, Kirsty, 18 June 2012, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 June 2012,www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/fairfax-moves-to-freemium-model-20120618-20jgq.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20120620214628www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/fairfax-moves-to-freemium-model-20120618-20jgq.html,">web.archive.org/web/20120620214628www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/fairfax-moves-to-freemium-model-20120618-20jgq.html, 20 June 2012, live, The announcement was part of an overall “digital first” strategy of increasingly digital or on-line content over printed delivery, to “increase sharing of editorial content,” and to assist the management’s wish for “full integration of its online, print and mobile platforms.“It was announced in July 2013 that the SMH{{’s}} news director, Darren Goodsir, would become editor-in-chief, replacing Sean Aylmer.NEWS, New Sydney Morning Herald Editor-in-Chief announced,www.smh.com.au/nsw/new-sydney-morning-herald-editorinchief-announced-20130730-2qwwc.html, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 July 2013, 30 July 2013,www.smh.com.au/nsw/new-sydney-morning-herald-editorinchief-announced-20130730-2qwwc.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20130801162832www.smh.com.au/nsw/new-sydney-morning-herald-editorinchief-announced-20130730-2qwwc.html,">web.archive.org/web/20130801162832www.smh.com.au/nsw/new-sydney-morning-herald-editorinchief-announced-20130730-2qwwc.html, 1 August 2013, live, On 22 February 2014, the Saturday edition was produced in broadsheet format for the final time, with this too converted to compact format on 1 March 2014,NEWS,www.thenewspaperworks.com.au/fairfax-to-complete-transition-to-compact/, Fairfax to complete transition to compact, Homewood, Sarah, 28 January 2014, The Newspaper Works, 25 February 2014,www.thenewspaperworks.com.au/fairfax-to-complete-transition-to-compact/," title="web.archive.org/web/20140228162945www.thenewspaperworks.com.au/fairfax-to-complete-transition-to-compact/,">web.archive.org/web/20140228162945www.thenewspaperworks.com.au/fairfax-to-complete-transition-to-compact/, 28 February 2014, live, ahead of the decommissioning of the printing plant at Chullora in June 2014.NEWS,www.smh.com.au/nsw/full-stop-for-chullora-print-plant-after-19-years-20140606-39ojz.html, Elliot, Tim, 7 June 2014, The Sydney Morning Herald, Full stop for Chullora print plant after 19 years, 7 June 2014,www.smh.com.au/nsw/full-stop-for-chullora-print-plant-after-19-years-20140606-39ojz.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20140607014736www.smh.com.au/nsw/full-stop-for-chullora-print-plant-after-19-years-20140606-39ojz.html,">web.archive.org/web/20140607014736www.smh.com.au/nsw/full-stop-for-chullora-print-plant-after-19-years-20140606-39ojz.html, 7 June 2014, live, In June 2022, the paper received global coverage and backlash to an attempted outing of Australian actress Rebel Wilson by columnist Andrew Hornery, and the subsequent defence of his since-deleted column by editor Bevan Shields; Wilson pre-empted the Hornery disclosure with an Instagram post confirming her relationship.NEWS,www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jun/18/bad-press-the-rebel-wilson-debacle-that-rocked-smh-to-its-core, Bad press: the Rebel Wilson debacle that rocked SMH to its core, Meade, Amanda, 17 June 2022, The Guardian, 19 June 2022, 19 June 2022,web.archive.org/web/20220619000510/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jun/18/bad-press-the-rebel-wilson-debacle-that-rocked-smh-to-its-core, live, NEWS,www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/13/our-reputation-is-trashed-anonymous-staffer-criticises-smh-management-over-rebel-wilson-coverage, ‘Our reputation is trashed’: anonymous staffer criticises SMH management over Rebel Wilson coverage, Meade, Amanda, 13 June 2022, The Guardian, 14 June 2022, 13 June 2022,web.archive.org/web/20220613212514/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/13/our-reputation-is-trashed-anonymous-staffer-criticises-smh-management-over-rebel-wilson-coverage, live, NEWS,www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/14/whoopi-goldberg-joins-international-backlash-against-sydney-morning-heralds-treatment-of-rebel-wilson, Whoopi Goldberg joins international backlash over Sydney Morning Herald’s treatment of Rebel Wilson, Shepherd, Tory, 14 June 2022, The Guardian, 14 June 2022, 14 June 2022,web.archive.org/web/20220614054540/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/14/whoopi-goldberg-joins-international-backlash-against-sydney-morning-heralds-treatment-of-rebel-wilson, live, Daily Life Woman of the Year“>

Daily Life Woman of the Year

In 2012, Woman of the Year (WOTY) awards were created by the editor of the Daily Life section, Sarah Oakes, inspired by the sexism faced by former prime minister Julia Gillard. Winners were selected as the result of voting by the public as well as a panel of judges appointed by Fairfax. Winners have included:WEB, Price, Jenna, Rosie Batty is Daily Life’s Woman of the Year 2014, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 December 2014,www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/rosie-batty-is-daily-lifes-woman-of-the-year-2014-20141217-128uzq.html, 20 April 2023, 20 April 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230420080620/https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/rosie-batty-is-daily-lifes-woman-of-the-year-2014-20141217-128uzq.html, live,

• 2012: Julia Gillard
• 2013: “ADFA Kate” (an RAAF cadet, victim of the “Skype sex scandal” at the Australian Defence Force AcademyWEB, Brissenden, Michael, Victim of ADFA Skype sex scandal to take legal action against Defence Force, ABC News, 4 November 2013,www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-04/adfa-sykpe-sex-scandal-daniel-mcdonald-adf/5068630, 20 April 2023, 20 April 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230420082544/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-04/adfa-sykpe-sex-scandal-daniel-mcdonald-adf/5068630, live, )
• 2014: Rosie Batty
• 2015: Gillian TriggsWEB, Gillian Triggs named 2015 Woman of the Year, Australian Human Rights Commission, 7 December 2015,humanrights.gov.au/about/news/gillian-triggs-named-2015-woman-year, 20 April 2023, 20 April 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230420082545/https://humanrights.gov.au/about/news/gillian-triggs-named-2015-woman-year, live,
• 2016: Mariam VeiszadehWEB, Dumas, Daisy, Daily Life 2016 Woman of the Year: Mariam Veiszadeh, The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 December 2016,www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/daily-life-2016-woman-of-the-year-mariam-veiszadeh-20161205-gt4bkw.html, 20 April 2023, 20 April 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230420082544/https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/daily-life-2016-woman-of-the-year-mariam-veiszadeh-20161205-gt4bkw.html, live,

Editorial stance

The contemporary editorial stance of the Sydney Morning Herald is generally centrist.Andrea L. Everett, Humanitarian Hypocrisy: Civilian Protection and the Design of Peace Operations (Cornell University Press, 2017), p. 253: ”SMH ... is also generally seen as the most politically centrist of the three largest-circulation non-tabloid newspaper [in Australia]: SMH, the Australian, and the Age).” It has been described as the most centrist of Australia’s three major news publications (the others being The Australian and The Age). In 2004, the newspaper’s editorial page stated: “market libertarianism and social liberalism” were the two “broad themes” that guided the Herald{{’}}s editorial stance.NEWS,www.smh.com.au/opinion/its-time-for-a-vote-of-greater-independence-20041008-gdjvnv.html, Editorial: It’s time for a vote of greater independence, The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 October 2004, 26 March 2007,www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089491671.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20071019042039www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089491671.html,">web.archive.org/web/20071019042039www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089491671.html, 19 October 2007, live, During the 1999 referendum on whether Australia should become a republic, the Herald (like the other two major papers) strongly supported a “yes” vote.Mark McKenna, “The Australian Republic: Still Captive After All These Years” in Constitutional Politics: The Republic Referendum and the Future (eds. John Warhurst & Malcolm Mackerras: (University of Queensland Press, 2002), p. 151.The Sydney Morning Herald did not endorse the Labor Party for federal office in the first six decades of Federation, always endorsing a conservative government. The newspaper has since endorsed Labor in seven federal elections: 1961 (Calwell), 1984 and 1987 (Hawke), 2007 (Rudd), 2010 (Gillard),Lisa Davies, Why the Herald does editorials and why they can be controversial {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911015904www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/why-the-herald-does-editorials-and-why-they-can-be-controversial-20190328-p518g4.html |date=11 September 2021 }}, Sydney Morning Herald (March 27, 2019).NEWS,www.smh.com.au/opinion/the-more-they-stay-the-same-20071124-gdro95.html, Editorial: The more they stay the same …, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 November 2007, 31 January 2008,www.smh.com.au/news/editorial/the-more-they-stay-the-same-8230/2007/11/23/1195753304670.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20071209194806www.smh.com.au/news/editorial/the-more-they-stay-the-same-8230/2007/11/23/1195753304670.html,">web.archive.org/web/20071209194806www.smh.com.au/news/editorial/the-more-they-stay-the-same-8230/2007/11/23/1195753304670.html, 9 December 2007, live, , 2019 (Shorten),NEWS,www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/17/nt-news-breaks-ranks-as-only-news-corp-paper-to-endorse-bill-shorten, NT News breaks ranks as only News Corp paper to endorse Bill Shorten, Meade, Amanda, The Guardian, 17 May 2019, 24 July 2020, 17 May 2019,web.archive.org/web/20190517221045/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/17/nt-news-breaks-ranks-as-only-news-corp-paper-to-endorse-bill-shorten, live, and 2022 (Albanese).WEB, View, The Herald’s, 2022-05-19, Why the Morrison government does not deserve another term,www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/why-the-morrison-government-does-not-deserve-another-term-20220516-p5alsi.html, 2022-05-19, The Sydney Morning Herald, en, 19 May 2022,web.archive.org/web/20220519213902/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/why-the-morrison-government-does-not-deserve-another-term-20220516-p5alsi.html, live, During the 2004 Australian federal election, the Herald did not endorse a party, but subsequently resumed its practice of making endorsements. After endorsing the Coalition at the 2013NEWS,www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/australians-deserve-a-government-they-can-trust-20130905-2t7wm.html, Editorial: Australians deserve a government they can trust, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 September 2013, 21 November 2014,www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/australians-deserve-a-government-they-can-trust-20130905-2t7wm.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20140520050108www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/australians-deserve-a-government-they-can-trust-20130905-2t7wm.html,">web.archive.org/web/20140520050108www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/australians-deserve-a-government-they-can-trust-20130905-2t7wm.html, 20 May 2014, live, and 2016 federal elections,Fergus Hunter, Federal election 2016: Daily newspapers unanimously back Turnbull Coalition {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731235853www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/federal-election-2016-daily-newspaper-editorials-unanimously-back-turnbull-coalition-20160701-gpw0df.html |date=31 July 2021 }}, Sydney Morning Herald (July 1, 2016). the newspaper endorsed Bill Shorten’s Labor Party in 2019, after Malcolm Turnbull was ousted as prime minister.At the state level, the Herald has consistently backed the Coalition; the only time since 1973WEB, View, The Herald’s, 2023-03-23, Both leaders are decent, smart and capable but one offers a more ambitious vision for NSW,www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/both-leaders-are-decent-smart-and-capable-but-one-offers-a-more-ambitious-vision-for-nsw-20230321-p5ctwp.html, 2023-03-24, The Sydney Morning Herald, en, 24 March 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230324025904/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/both-leaders-are-decent-smart-and-capable-but-one-offers-a-more-ambitious-vision-for-nsw-20230321-p5ctwp.html, live, that it has endorsed a Labor government for New South Wales was Bob Carr’s government in the 2003 election, though it declined to endorse either party three times during this period. The Herald endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.NEWS, Donald Trump should quit presidential race, The Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax Media, 10 October 2016,www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/donald-trump-should-quit-presidential-race-20161009-gryhw1.html, 18 January 2019,www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/donald-trump-should-quit-presidential-race-20161009-gryhw1.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20171022033204www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/donald-trump-should-quit-presidential-race-20161009-gryhw1.html,">web.archive.org/web/20171022033204www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/donald-trump-should-quit-presidential-race-20161009-gryhw1.html, 22 October 2017, live, The Herald endorsed the Liberal-National Coalition in the run-up for the 2023 New South Wales state election.WEB,www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/both-leaders-are-decent-smart-and-capable-but-one-offers-a-more-ambitious-vision-for-nsw-20230321-p5ctwp.html, Both leaders are decent, smart and capable but one offers a more ambitious vision for NSW, 23 March 2023, 24 March 2023, 24 March 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230324025904/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/both-leaders-are-decent-smart-and-capable-but-one-offers-a-more-ambitious-vision-for-nsw-20230321-p5ctwp.html, live, In May 2023, the Herald opposed the extradition of former WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to the United States, with the newspaper conducting a poll that found 79% oppose Assange’s extradition to the United States.WEB,www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-time-has-come-to-end-the-sorry-julian-assange-saga-20230511-p5d7t4.html, The time has come to end the sorry Julian Assange saga, 12 May 2023, 21 June 2023, 2 July 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230702123642/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-time-has-come-to-end-the-sorry-julian-assange-saga-20230511-p5d7t4.html, live,

Colonial era

In its early days as The Sydney Herald, the newspaper’s editorial stance at times reflected racist attitudes of the colony, with the paper urging squatters across Australia to emulate the mass killing of Native Americans. The front page of the paper on December 26, 1836 read: “If nothing but extermination will do, they will exterminate the savages as they would wild beasts.”The Sydney Herald, 26 December 1836, p. 1. In the wake of the Myall Creek massacre in which at least twenty-eight unarmed Wirraayaraay men, women and children were murdered by a group of white stockmen, the paper published a long letter from a squatter in defence the killings. David Marr, Killing for Country (2023) Black Inc., p. 86. {{ISBN|9781760642730}} The squatter described the Indigenous inhabitants of Australia as “the most degenerate, despicable, and brutal race of beings in existence”, writing: “they will, and must become extinct – civilization destroys them – where labor and industry flourish, they die!”The Sydney Herald, 19 September 1838, p. 4.

Notable contributors

Writers

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• Waleed Aly
• Eliza Ashton
• Louisa Atkinson
• Julia Baird
• Lucian Boz
• Mike Carlton
• Anne Davies
• Peter FitzSimons
• Ross Gittins
• Richard Glover
• Peter Hartcher
• Amanda Hooton
• Adele Horin
• H. G. Kippax
• Amy Mack
• Louise Mack
• Roy Masters
• Anne Summers
• Kate McClymont

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Illustrators

• Simon Letch, named as one of the year’s best illustrators on four consecutive occasions.WEB, Behind the lines. Year’s best political cartoons, 2007,www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_2007_the_years_best_cartoons/about_the_artists, National Museum of Australia, 18 September 2016,www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_2007_the_years_best_cartoons/about_the_artists," title="web.archive.org/web/20160927223234www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_2007_the_years_best_cartoons/about_the_artists,">web.archive.org/web/20160927223234www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_2007_the_years_best_cartoons/about_the_artists, 27 September 2016, live, WEB, Behind the lines. Year’s best political cartoons, 2008,www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_2008_the_years_best_cartoons/about_the_artists, National Museum of Australia, 18 September 2016,www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_2008_the_years_best_cartoons/about_the_artists," title="web.archive.org/web/20160529214717www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_2008_the_years_best_cartoons/about_the_artists,">web.archive.org/web/20160529214717www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_2008_the_years_best_cartoons/about_the_artists, 29 May 2016, live, WEB, Behind the lines. Year’s best political cartoons, 2009,www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_the_years_best_cartoons_2009/about_the_artists, National Museum of Australia, 18 September 2016,www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_the_years_best_cartoons_2009/about_the_artists," title="web.archive.org/web/20160927224635www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_the_years_best_cartoons_2009/about_the_artists,">web.archive.org/web/20160927224635www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_the_years_best_cartoons_2009/about_the_artists, 27 September 2016, live, WEB, Behind the lines. Year’s best political cartoons, 2010,www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_the_years_best_cartoons_2010/about_the_artists, National Museum of Australia, 18 September 2016,www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_the_years_best_cartoons_2010/about_the_artists," title="web.archive.org/web/20160927224442www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_the_years_best_cartoons_2010/about_the_artists,">web.archive.org/web/20160927224442www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/behind_the_lines_the_years_best_cartoons_2010/about_the_artists, 27 September 2016, live,

List of journalists

Current journalists

The below is a list of The Sydney Morning Herald’s current journalists.{{Incomplete list|date=July 2023}}{| class=“wikitable“|+!Name!Role!Other roles!Start year at Nine / Fairfax|James MassolaURL=HTTPS://WWW.SMH.COM.AU/BY/JAMES-MASSOLA-HVF20 WEBSITE=THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD ARCHIVE-DATE=3 JULY 2023 URL-STATUS=LIVE, |Previously South-East Asia correspondent||Callan Boys|Good Food Guide editor (SMH)Restaurant critic for Good WeekendGood Food writer|||Paul Sakkal|Federal political reporterThe Age>The Age||Lisa Visentin|Federal political reporter|Same role at The Age|Angus Thompson|Federal political reporter (industrial relations)|Same role at The Age|Monique Farmer|National Managing Editor|Same role at The Age

Former journalists

The below is a list of The Sydney Morning Herald’s former journalists.{{Incomplete list|date=July 2023}}{| class=“wikitable“!Name!Role!Other roles!Start year at Nine / Fairfax|Gail Williams|Food columnistThe Sunday Times (Western Australia)>The Sunday Times|

Ownership

Fairfax went public in 1957 and grew to acquire interests in magazines, radio, and television. The group collapsed spectacularly on 11 December 1990 when Warwick Fairfax, who was the great-great-grandson of John Fairfax, attempted to privatise the group by borrowing $1.8 billion. The group was bought by Conrad Black before being re-listed in 1992. In 2006, Fairfax announced a merger with Rural Press, which brought in a Fairfax family member, John B. Fairfax, as a significant player in the company.BOOK, Ruth Park, Ruth Park, Ruth Park’s Sydney, Duffy & Snellgrove, 1999, 978-1-875989-45-4, From 10 December 2018, Fairfax Media merged into Nine Entertainment, making the paper a sister to the Nine Network’s TCN station.NEWS, McDuling, John, 7 December 2018, What does the Nine-Fairfax merger mean?,www.smh.com.au/business/companies/what-does-the-nine-fairfax-merger-mean-20181204-p50k1o.html, subscription, 9 March 2024, The Sydney Morning Herald, Nine Publishing, en-AU, This reunited the paper with a television station; Fairfax had been the founding owner of ATN, which became the flagship of what became the Seven Network.

Content

Column 8

Column 8 is a short column to which Herald readers send their observations of interesting happenings. It was first published on 11 January 1947.JOURNAL, 26.19 Granny George calls it a day, Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter, 26, 5, February 2004,www.uq.edu.au/journ-comm/docs/pastissues/anhg26.pdf, 15 January 2008,www.uq.edu.au/journ-comm/docs/pastissues/anhg26.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20080216025302www.uq.edu.au/journ-comm/docs/pastissues/anhg26.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20080216025302www.uq.edu.au/journ-comm/docs/pastissues/anhg26.pdf, 16 February 2008, The name comes from the fact that it originally occupied the final (8th) column of the broadsheet newspaper’s front page. In a front-page redesign in the lead-up to the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, Column 8 moved to the back page of the first section from 31 July 2000.JOURNAL, 8.37 Changes in the Herald: Who will make me smile before breakfast?, Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter, 8, 17–18, August 2000,eprint.uq.edu.au/archive/00000020/01/anjh08.PDF, 15 January 2008, dead,espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ%3A11348/anjh08.PDF," title="web.archive.org/web/20120415103040espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ%3A11348/anjh08.PDF,">web.archive.org/web/20120415103040espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ%3A11348/anjh08.PDF, 15 April 2012, As at February 2024, the column is the final column on the Opinion (editorial and letters) pages.The content tends to the quirky, typically involving strange urban occurrences, instances of confusing signs (often in Engrish), word play, and discussion of more or less esoteric topics.JOURNAL, 41.26 Has the world gone mad? Column 8 at 60, Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter, 41, 8, February 2007,espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv.php?pid=UQ:12845&dsID=anhg41_07.pdf, 15 January 2008,espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv.php?pid=UQ:12845&dsID=anhg41_07.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20080216025300espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv.php?pid=UQ:12845&dsID=anhg41_07.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20080216025300espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv.php?pid=UQ:12845&dsID=anhg41_07.pdf, 16 February 2008, live, The column is also sometimes affectionately known as Granny’s Column, after a fictional grandmother who supposedly edited it. The column’s original logo was a caricature of Sydney Deamer, originator of the column and its author for 14 years.{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last= Souter |first= Gavin |year= 1983 |id= A130667b |title= Deamer, Sydney Harold (1891–1962) |access-date= 15 January 2008 |quote = Moving to the Sydney Morning Herald, from 1947 to 1961 Deamer was founding editor of ‘Column 8’, a daily, front-page feature of miscellaneous paragraphs under a symbolic drawing of ‘Granny Herald’ whose waspish features bore a resemblance to his own. He retired in February 1961.}}It was edited for 15 years by George Richards, who retired on 31 January 2004.NEWS, Alan, Ramsey, Alan Ramsey, George has moved on but his Granny still lives,www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/03/1075776061127.html, The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 February 2004, 15 January 2008,www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/03/1075776061127.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20040419220536www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/03/1075776061127.html,">web.archive.org/web/20040419220536www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/03/1075776061127.html, 19 April 2004, live, Other editors besides Deamer and Richards have been Duncan Thompson, Bill Fitter, Col Allison, Jim Cunningham, Pat Sheil, and briefly, Peter Bowers and Lenore Nicklin. The column is, as of March 2017, edited by Herald journalist Tim Barlass, who frequently appends reader contributions with puns; and who made the decision to reduce the column’s publication from its traditional six days a week, down to just weekdays.JOURNAL, 32.31 Column 8 Changes Style, Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter, 32, May 2005,www.uq.edu.au/journ-comm/docs/pastissues/number32.pdf, 15 January 2008, The Column 8 has a new editor, Pat Sheil, and he is changing the style of the 58-year-old Sydney Morning Herald column. “I am trying to make it a bit edgier than it was”, he told MediaWeek (11 April 2005, p.6). “Basically, Column 8 should be like a chat, without making it too trite or stupid.” George Richards edited Column 8 for fifteen and a half years before retiring early last year (see ANHG 26.19). James Cockington edited it until handing over to Sheil in February this year.,www.uq.edu.au/journ-comm/docs/pastissues/number32.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20080216025307www.uq.edu.au/journ-comm/docs/pastissues/number32.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20080216025307www.uq.edu.au/journ-comm/docs/pastissues/number32.pdf, 16 February 2008,

Opinion

The Opinion section is a regular of the daily newspaper, containing opinion on a wide range of issues. Mostly concerned with relevant political, legal and cultural issues, the section presents work by regular columnists, including Herald political editor Peter Hartcher, Ross Gittins, as well as occasional reader-submitted content. Iconoclastic Sydney barrister Charles C. Waterstreet, upon whose life the television workplace comedy Rake is loosely based, had a regular humour column in this section.Good Weekend“>

Good Weekend

Good Weekend was launched in May 1978, as a Saturday magazine appearing in both SMH and The Canberra Times.NEWS,nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122484856, Good Weekend, The Canberra Times, 59, 18,042, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 20 February 1985, 6 January 2024, 1, National Library of Australia, The editor was Valerie Lawson, and Cyprian Fernandes was founding chief sub-editor.NEWS,nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128258224, Advertising, The Canberra Times, 60, 18,261, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 29 September 1985, 6 January 2024, 4 (Good Weekend), National Library of Australia, WEB, Veage, John, Yesterday in Paradise, St George & Sutherland Shire Leader, 14 February 2017,www.theleader.com.au/story/4465802/yesterday-in-paradise/, 6 January 2024, It is now{{when|date=January 2024}} distributed with both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in Saturday editions. It contains, on average, four feature articles written by its stable of writers and others syndicated from overseas as well as sections on food, wine, and fashion. Writers include Stephanie Wood, Jane Cadzow, Melissa Fyfe, Tim Elliott, Konrad Marshall, and Amanda Hooton.{{cn|date=January 2024}}Other sections include “Modern Guru”, which features humorous columnists including Danny Katz responding to the everyday dilemmas of readers; a Samurai Sudoku; and “The Two of Us”, containing interviews with a pair of close friends, relatives or colleagues.{{cn|date=January 2024}}Good Weekend is edited by Katrina Strickland.{{when|date=January 2024}} Previous editors include Ben Naparstek, Judith Whelan and Fenella Souter.{{cn|date=January 2024}}

Digitisation

The paper has been partially digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.WEB, Newspaper and magazine titles,trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/about, Trove, National Library of Australia, 5 June 2013,trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/about," title="web.archive.org/web/20160229052042trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/about,">web.archive.org/web/20160229052042trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/about, 29 February 2016, live, WEB, Newspaper Digitisation Program,www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program, National Library of Australia, 5 June 2013,www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program," title="web.archive.org/web/20150702090621www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program,">web.archive.org/web/20150702090621www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program, 2 July 2015, live, JOURNAL, Brown, Jerelynn, Tabloids in the State Library of NSW collection: A reflection of life in Australia, Australian Journal of Communication, 2011, 38, 2, 107–121,

See also

• List of oldest companies in Australia
• Journalism in Australia
• List of newspapers in Australia
• The Sydney Mail – weekly magazine of The Sydney Morning Herald, published from 1860 to 1938

Notes

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References

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Further reading

• Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world’s great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp 314–19
• Gavin Souter (1981) Company of Heralds: a century and a half of Australian publishing by John Fairfax Limited and its predecessors, 1831–1981 Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, {{ISBN|0522842186}}
• Gavin Souter (1992) Heralds and angels: the house of Fairfax 1841–1992 Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books, {{ISBN|0140173307}}

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