Herald Sun
The Herald Sun is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia.
Herald Sun front page 12 December 2005, reporting on the 2005 Cronulla riots | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | The Herald and Weekly Times (News Corp Australia) |
| Editor | Sam Weir |
| Founded | The Port Phillip Herald (3 January 1840) The Melbourne Morning Herald (1 January 1849) The Melbourne Herald (1 January 1855) The Herald (8 September 1855) The Sun News-Pictorial (11 September 1922) The Herald Sun (8 October 1990) |
| Political alignment | Right-wing |
| Headquarters | The Herald and Weekly Times Tower, 40 City Road, Southbank, Victoria, Australia (formerly The Herald and Weekly Times Building, 44-74 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from 1990 to 1995) |
| Website | Official website (Note: Some services may only be available via pre-billed subscription |
It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and New South Wales South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In 2017, the paper had a daily circulation of 350,000 from Monday to Friday.
The Herald Sun newspaper is the product of a merger in 1990 of two newspapers owned by The Herald and Weekly Times Limited: the morning tabloid paper The Sun News-Pictorial and the afternoon broadsheet paper The Herald. It was first published on 8 October 1990 as the Herald-Sun.