| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | News Corp Australia |
| Editor | Paul Whittaker |
| Founded | 1879 |
| Political alignment | conservative, populist |
| Headquarters | 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia |
| Circulation | 280,731 (Weekdays) 265,711 (Saturday) (as of 2013-14 financial year) |
| Readership | 1,191,000 (Weekdays) 909,000 (Saturday) |
| Website | www.dailytelegraph.com.au |
The Daily Telegraph is a conservative, Australian tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, by Nationwide News, part of News Corp. The Tele, as it is also known, was founded in 1879.[1] From 1936 to 1972, it was owned by Frank Packer's Australian Consolidated Press. That year it was sold to News Limited (now News Corp Australia). In 1990, it merged with its afternoon sister paper The Daily Mirror to form The Daily Telegraph-Mirror with morning and afternoon editions although 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 during the June quarter 2013 was 310,724 on weekdays,[2] the largest of a Sydney newspaper. In the 2013-14 financial year it decreased 9.65% to 280,731.[3][4]
The Daily Telegraph is published Monday through Saturday and is available across New South Wales, Canberra and South East Queensland. On 19 November 2010, The Daily Telegraph released their iPad application enabling users to view a custom version of the website.[5]
