The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
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The Daily Telegraph is a tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
The Tele, as it is affectionately known, was founded in 1879 and was a staple in Sydney print media right up until 1990 when it merged with its afternoon sister paper The Daily Mirror to form The Daily Telegraph-Mirror with morning and afternoon editions though the afternoon editions were later discontinued.
The new paper continued in this vein until January 1996 when reader pressure for a shorter title caused the name of the paper to revert to The Daily Telegraph, despite staff concerns that former Mirror readers would now feel disenfranchised. The circulation of the newspaper in the first half of 2004 was around 409,000 per day, the largest of a Sydney newspaper.
Like its British namesake, the paper maintains a strong right wing conservative lean, with columnists such as Piers Akerman. For that reason, many of Sydney's left-leaning individuals have been known to call the tabloid The Daily Terrorgraph or The Terror, The Telecrap and The Daily Bogan - the latter making reference to the socio-economic class of the sterotypical reader.
The paper promotes a highly cynical and provocative viewpoint, in both the type of stories that are covered and the way articles are written, and whilst The Daily Telegraph is commonly ridiculed for its lurid outlook on affairs, there is a stong moral belief that the newspaper is valuable in the sense that it is active in bringing matters to light.
Its Melbourne counterpart is the The Herald Sun.
The Saturday edition is called The Saturday Daily Telegraph and the Sunday edition is called The Sunday Telegraph.
Executives
- Greg Baxter, corporate affaires director
- ...
Current Journalists and Columnists
- Piers Ackerman
- Glenn Milne
- Joanna Tovia
- Robert Gerrish
- Malcolm Farr
- James Hooper
- Steve Mascord
- Paul Kent
- Anita Quigley
- Joe Hildebrand
- Tony Maguire
- Sue Dunlevy
- Maralyn Parker
- ...
Former Journalists
- Col Allan, currently editor-in-chief at the New York Post
- Steve Barratt
- Michael Beach
- Mark Day
- David Fitzsimmons
- Stephen Gibbs
- Mike Gibson
- Malcolm Holland
- Steve Howard
- ...
See also
External links
- [The Daily Telegraph website]
- [The Sunday Telegraph website]
- [comentary on Daily Telegraph and John Brogdens suicide attempt]
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