The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald is one of Australia's oldest and most respected daily newspapers, published by Nine Entertainment. Based in Sydney, it covers national and international news, politics, business, and culture in print and online. It is regarded as a leading metropolitan broadsheet, often viewed as centrist to centre-left in editorial outlook.
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Is The Sydney Morning Herald left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
The Sydney Morning Herald is generally regarded as left-leaning in its editorial orientation, according to widely cited media-bias assessments of Australia's press. In Australia, ABC News is listed as Centrist, while The Australian and news.com.au are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open The Sydney Morning Herald beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
Read The Sydney Morning Herald beside another title from Australia and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Two Australia dailies covering the same day will usually agree on the facts and differ on the ordering: which story is worth the top of the page, how the headline characterises it, and which follow-ups get space. Those are The Sydney Morning Herald's editorial choices, and they are easiest to see side by side. Because The Sydney Morning Herald is listed as left-leaning, the sharpest contrast is usually a right-leaning title from Australia on the same morning: the facts rarely differ, but which consequence is treated as the story often does.
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