The Sunday Times (Australia)
| The Sunday Times
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| description | Australian Sunday newspaper |
| publishing company | News Corporation |
| Frequency of publication | Sunday |
| Sold edition | 353,000 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Sam Weir |
| Web link | Perth Now |
The Sunday Times is an Australian Sunday newspaper. The newspaper has its catchment area in the entire state of Western Australia .
Due to changes in the layout and topics of the newspaper, the proportion of its readers last increased from 340,000 in 2001 to over 353,000 in 2005 (however, the newspaper was unable to match the successes of the 1990s in the new millennium).
Brett McCarthy took over the position of editor-in-chief from Brian Crisp in 2001 and held that post until 2007. As of June 8, 2007, Sam Weir is the new editor-in-chief.
history
Frederick Vosper founded The Sunday Times in the 1890s. The Sunday Times was a vehicle of hatred against CY O'Connor, who opposed the construction of a pipeline right through nature. In the late 1890s until O'Connor's suicide in 1902, Vosper ran a public hate campaign against him. A committee of inquiry finally decided that this was based solely on Vosper's assumptions.
In 1901, James MacCallum Smith and Arthur Reid took over the newspaper from Vosper. From 1912 to 1935 McCallum Smith was the sole owner and director of the Sunday Times.
In the 1960s and 1970s, when numerous other magazines in the Perth area reported on news, the Sunday Times became a comic relief- style tabloid with no direct reference to the weekly happenings.
As other media - TV and the Internet - gained in importance and the evening papers gradually disappeared from the market, the Sunday Times had to change its style and presentation to keep its readers. More than ever, the paper has a lurid mentality.
In June 2006 the Sunday Times created the Internet service "Perth Now", which offers local news around Perth seven days a week .
Individual evidence
- Dunn, Frank, (1997) A century of Sundays Perth, WA Sunday Times. ISBN 0646338013