The Courier-Mail

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Front page of The Courier-Mail 12 December 2005
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid

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, Australia 41 Campbell St Bowen Hills QLD 4006
Circulation	224,689 Monday-Friday 326,767 Saturday

Website: news.com.au/couriermail

The Courier-Mail is a 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.

1 History
2 Political position
3 Circulation
4 Journalists
5 Change to tabloid
6 References
7 See also
8 External links

[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.

[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). It is Brisbane's only daily newspaper. Around three-quarters of the paper's readership is located in the Brisbane metropolitan area.^[1]

[edit] Journalists

Prominent journalists and columnists include Terry Sweetman and Mike O'Connor. 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

From its inception until recently The Courier-Mail was a broadsheet newspaper. 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.