The Courier Mail

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The Courier Mail
Newspaper lettering
description daily newspaper
publishing company News Corporation
First edition 1933
Frequency of publication daily except Sundays
Range 224,689 Mon. – Fri.
326,767 Sa. million readers
Editor-in-chief David Fagan
Web link news.com.au/couriermail

The Courier-Mail is a daily newspaper published in Brisbane , Queensland , Australia . The newspaper is owned by the News Corporation and is published Monday through Saturday in tabloid format. The newspaper's editorial offices are in Bowen Hills , a northern suburb of Brisbane. The newspaper is printed in Murarrie in the east of the city.

history

The writer Sidney Lyons came to Brisbane from Sydney in 1846 and intended to start a newspaper here, presumably influenced by John Dunmore Lang , who had led Lyons to emigrate to Australia. Sidney Lyons teamed up with James Swan , a printer who had previously worked on Lang's The Colonialist newspaper in Sydney. The two men settled at the intersection of Queen Street, Brisbane and Albert Street, Brisbane , in what would later become known as the North Star Hotel.

The first four-page edition of the Moreton Bay Courier appeared on Saturday June 20, 1846, with Lyons as the editor and Swan the editor. The newspaper appeared once a week on Saturdays.

After about 18 months, the two got into an argument about the direction of the newspaper. For example, there was no agreement on the transport habits of prisoners and their accommodation, so that at the end of 1847 Lyons took sole control of the newspaper. Lyons ran into financial difficulties, however, so Swan took over the newspaper alone. Eventually James Swan sold the newspaper to Thomas Blacket Stephens .

When Stephens took over the newspaper in May 1861, he soon converted it into a daily newspaper, the Courier , which became the Brisbane Courier in 1864 . In June and July 1868 he founded the Brisbane Newspaper Company and transferred all rights to the Brisbane Courier to this company. He was the managing director until his retirement in November 1873 when the newspaper was auctioned. John James Knight was the editor-in-chief of the Brisbane Courier from 1906 to 1916 and later became general manager and editor of all of the company's publications.

The first edition of The Courier-Mail was published on August 28, 1933 after The Brisbane Courier and The Daily Mail , which first appeared on October 3, 1903, merged. This merger occurs because of the global economic crisis , which caused financial losses for both newspapers.

Political position

Like most of the News Corporation's newspapers, The Courier-Mail takes a stand on the free market and globalization .

distribution

The Courier-Mail has the fourth highest circulation of any daily newspaper in Australia. In June 2006, the average weekday circulation sold was 224,689 copies, while the Saturday edition sold 326,767 copies. Around three quarters of the newspaper's readership come from the Brisbane metropolitan area.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brisbane Courier, Tuesday 2 June 1891, page 5
  2. ↑ Brisbane Courier, Saturday 20 June 1896, pages 7-8
  3. ^ TB Stephens: Notice . The Brisbane Courier. July 2, 1868. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
  4. ↑ Stephens, Thomas Blacket (1819--1877) , Australian Dictionary of Biography
  5. ^ Judith Womersley, Mark Richmond: AussieData: From Prehistory to the Present . Wakefield Press, 2001, ISBN 1862545456 , p. 160.
  6. ^ HJ Summers, 'Knight, John James ( 1863-1927 )', Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 9, MUP , 1983, pp 622-623
  7. ^ The Courier-Mail Demographics . Archived from the original on April 30, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 9, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / metro.newsmedianet.com.au