The Courier-Mail
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 Front page of The Courier-Mail 12 December 2005 |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Tabloid |
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| Owner | News Corporation |
| Publisher | Queensland Newspapers |
| Editor | David Fagan |
| Founded | 1933 |
| Language | English |
| Price | AU$1.00 Monday-Friday AU$1.80 Saturday |
| Headquarters |  Brisbane, Australia41 Campbell St Bowen Hills QLD 4006 |
| Circulation | 224,689 Monday-Friday 326,767 Saturday |
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| Website: news.com.au/couriermail | |
The Courier-Mail is the only daily newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia. Owned by News Corporation, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Murarrie, in Brisbane's eastern suburbs.
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[edit] History
The first edition of The Courier-Mail was published on 28 August 1933 after a merger of The Brisbane Courier (founded as The Moreton Bay Courier on 20 June 1846) and The Daily Mail (first published on 3 October 1903). This merger was necessitated by the Great Depression which had caused both papers to make financial losses.
[edit] Political position
Like most newspapers owned by News Corporation, The Courier-Mail generally supports free market economic policies and the process of globalisation. It supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The quality of coverage is perceived to be more sensationalist and less serious compared to broadsheets The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian, however its journalism is not as lurid or populist as other Australian tabloids such as The Daily Telegraph in Sydney.
[edit] Circulation
The Courier-Mail has the fourth-highest circulation of any daily newspaper in Australia with 224,689 sales Monday to Friday, and 326,767 on Saturdays (June 2006 figures). Around three-quarters of the paper's readership is located in the Brisbane metropolitan area.[1]
[edit] Journalists
Prominent journalists and columnists include Nicholas Gruen, Terry Sweetman and Hedley Thomas. Its current Editor is David Fagan, who is married to columnist and 612 ABC Brisbane radio broadcaster Madonna King. Its editorial cartoonist is Sean Leahy.
[edit] Change to tabloid
The Courier-Mail had always been a broadsheet newspaper, however on 14 December 2005 it was announced that the paper would change to a tabloid sometime in early 2006. The last broadsheet edition was published on Saturday 11 March 2006, and the first tabloid edition was published on Monday 13 March 2006. On the same day, the paper's website was revamped and expanded.
The change to a "compact" format brought The Courier-Mail in line with all other News Limited Australian metropolitan daily newspapers. This followed the change to a tabloid format by The Advertiser of Adelaide, another News Corporation newspaper, some years earlier.
[edit] References
- ^ The Courier-Mail Demographics. Retrieved on February 9, 2007.
