The Sunday Telegraph is an Australian tabloid newspaper, the separately published Sunday edition of The Daily Telegraph. It is available throughout Sydney, across most of regional and remote New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. As of December 2018[update], The Sunday Telegraph was Australia's biggest selling weekend tabloid newspaper.[2]
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | News Corp Australia |
| Editor | Mick Carroll[1] |
| Political alignment | Conservative, popular |
| Headquarters | 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia |
| Website | dailytelegraph |
History
The Sunday Telegraph was founded in 1939 by Frank Packer, as the weekend version of the Daily Telegraph, which he had acquired in 1936. On its first front page on 19 November 1939, it reported on Nazi Germany's oppression of the Czechs, after the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938.[3] The first editor was Cyril Pearl who worked with the editor of the Daily Telegraph Brian Penton to fight against government censorship during the war. It transferred ownership to Rupert Murdoch's company News Limited in 1976, alongside the main Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Publication
The Sunday Telegraph is produced in the Holt Street offices of News Corp Australia It is printed at the Chullora and Gold Coast printing presses and distributed across New South Wales, Canberra and South East Queensland. News Corp increased the cover prices for the paper and other Sunday newspapers owned by the company by 50 cents on 21 July 2013, after Fairfax Media did the same with The Sun-Herald.[4]
Structure
The Sunday Telegraph is a tabloid style newspaper, with a strong emphasis on family and giveaways. The newspaper contains five distinct sections as well as five liftouts.
Sections
- News – breaking news and investigative journalism from around Australia.
- World – news from around the globe.
- Sport – features sport news from around Australia and the world (also includes The Punter, a racing liftout.)
- Insider – the back pages of the newspaper, featuring gossip and celebrity news.
Liftouts
- Body+Soul – a health and lifestyle magazine with an emphasis on women.
- Stellar – a glossy liftout featuring interviews, fashion and delicious on Sunday food section.
- Escape – a large travel magazine featuring stories and travel deals.
- TV Guide – features television guide and entertainment news and reviews.
Editor
The current[when?] editor is Mick Carroll (former deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph and editor of the Townsville Bulletin) who has edited the paper since 2012.[1] Carroll also became editor of The Saturday Telegraph in 2019.[5]
Accolades
In addition to being Australia's most widely read weekend tabloid newspaper,[2][6] The Sunday Telegraph won News Limited's Newspaper of the Year Award at the 2011 News Awards.[7]
References
- ^ a b Hicks, Robin (26 October 2012). "Mick Carroll replaces Neil Breen as editor of The Sunday Telegraph". Mumbrella. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ a b Mediaweek (8 February 2019). "Weekend Newspaper Readership down, Sunday Telegraph is most read". Mediaweek. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ "Open revolt flares up in Czechoslovakia". The Sunday Telegraph. 19 November 1939. Retrieved 25 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Christensen, Nic (10 July 2013). "News Corp Australia increases the cover prices of Sunday tabloids". Mumbrella. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ Aston, Joe (28 July 2020). "Campion, Joyce forgive The Daily Telegraph". The Australian Financial Review. Nine Entertainment. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ "The Daily Telegraph most read newspaper in NSW". news.com.au. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ "The Sunday Telegraph wins Newspaper of the Year award". The Daily Telegraph. News Limited. 6 November 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2023.