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.
The Sydney Morning Herald at a glance
- Country
- Australia
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 1831
- Owner
- Nine Entertainment
- Published from
- Sydney
- Website
- smh.com.au ↗
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How Crosswire groups The Sydney Morning Herald
Crosswire groups The Sydney Morning Herald as Left-leaning for comparisons within Australia's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. 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.
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Where The Sydney Morning Herald sits in Australia's press
The Sydney Morning Herald was founded in 1831, is published from Sydney and is owned by Nine Entertainment. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Australia, and one of 3 daily newspapers among them — the others being The Australian and The Age. By outlets tracked, Australia ranks first of the 8 countries on Crosswire's Oceania hub, which lists 32 outlets in all.
Across Oceania, Crosswire tracks 13 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to The Sydney Morning Herald outside Australia, starting with Australia and New Zealand, are The National (Papua New Guinea), The Fiji Times (Fiji), Island Sun (Solomon Islands) and Vanuatu Daily Post (Vanuatu). Opening one of them beside The Sydney Morning Herald is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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