The Sun-Herald

This article is about a newspaper published in Sydney, Australia. For the newspaper in Biloxi, Mississippi, see Sun Herald.

Not to be confused with the Herald Sun newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia.

The Sun-Herald is an Australian newspaper published in tabloid or compact format on Sundays in Sydney by Nine Entertainment. It is the Sunday counterpart of the Sydney Morning Herald. In the six months to September 2005, The Sun-Herald had a circulation of 515,000. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, its circulation had dropped to 443,257 as of December 2009^[update][1] and to 313,477 as of December 2010^[update], from which its management inferred a readership of 868,000.^[2] Readership continued to tumble to 264,434 by the end of 2013, and has half the circulation of rival The Sunday Telegraph.^[3]

The Sun-Herald

Part of front page from 14 March 2010
Type	Weekly (Sunday)
Format	Compact
Owner(s)	Nine Entertainment
Founded	11 October 1953
Political alignment	Centrist
Language	English
Headquarters	North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Circulation	264,434 (Dec 2013)
ISSN	1323-1987
OCLC number	67710301
Website	www.smh.com.au

Its predecessor the broadsheet Sunday Herald was published in the years 1949–1953.^[4] In 1953, Fairfax Media bought The Sun, an afternoon paper, and merged its Sunday edition with the Sunday Herald to become the tabloid Sun-Herald.^[5][6]

The Brisbane edition of the Sun-Herald has content from the Brisbane Times.

Liftouts and sections

• S – Entertainment and lifestyle
• Sunday Life
• Travel
• Money
• Sunday Domain
• Sports Sunday
• Television – TV listings

Sponsorships

The City2Surf, a 14-kilometre fun run established in 1971, starting from the Sydney central business district and concluding at Bondi Beach, is organised by the Sun-Herald, which along with Westpac serves as its sponsor.^[7]

Digitisation

The paper has been partially digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.^[8][9][10]

Sport

The Sun-Herald is known for its extensive coverage of the National Rugby League competition, of which nine clubs are based in Sydney. Nine News Sydney sports reporter Danny Weidler is a regular sports columnist.