The Sunday Times (Western Australia)
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The Sunday Times is a News Corporation owned Sunday tabloid newspaper distributed throughout Western Australia. Recent improvements to the newspaper have seen it grow in circulation from about 340,000 in 2001 to over 353,000 in 2005.
The current editor is Brett McCarthy.
[edit] History
Established by Frederick Vosper in the 1890s. It was a vehicle for the harassment of C.Y. O'Connor and the proposed Goldfields Water Supply Scheme in the late 1890s until O'Connor died at his own hands in 1902. A subsequent government inquiry failed to provide any evidence or backup for Vosper's campaign against O'Connor. It was taken over by James MacCallum Smith and Arthur Reid in 1901. In 1912 MacCallum Smith became the sole proprietor and managing director, continuing in the position until 1935.
In the 1960s and the 1970s when Perth had a morning and afternoon weekday newspaper, as well as a weekend afternoon newspaper - the Sunday Times was for some a comic relief tabloid with stories not necessarrily picked up during the preceding week.
With the dissapearance of the afternoon newspaper, and the rise of importance of other media - television and the internet, the Sunday Times has had to re-invent its style and layout to keep its circulation.
In June 2006, The Sunday Times launched the PerthNow service, making local news from News Corporation available 7 days a week.
