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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Tabloid |
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| Owner | News Corporation |
| Publisher | Queensland Newspapers |
| Editor | David Fagan |
| Founded | 1933 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters |  Brisbane, Australia41 Campbell St Bowen Hills QLD 4006 |
| Circulation | 224,689 Monday-Friday 326,767 Saturday |
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| Website: news.com.au/couriermail | |
The Courier-Mail is a daily newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia. Owned by News Corporation, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Murarrie, in Brisbane's eastern suburbs.
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History
The first edition of The Courier-Mail was published on 28 August 1933 after a merger of The Brisbane Courier (founded as The Moreton Bay Courier on 20 June 1846) and The Daily Mail (first published on 3 October 1903). This merger was necessitated by the Great Depression which had caused both papers to make financial losses.
The Moreton Bay Courier was purchased by Thomas Blacket Stephens in May 1861, and he soon turned it into a daily newspaper, the Courier. In 1864 it became the Brisbane Courier. In June-July 1868, he floated the Brisbane Newspaper Company, and transferred the plant and copyright of the Brisbane Courier to it.1 He was the managing director until he retired in November 1873, when the paper was auctioned.23
Political position
Like most newspapers owned by News Corporation, The Courier-Mail generally supports free market economic policies and the process of globalisation. It supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Circulation
The Courier-Mail has the fourth-highest circulation of any daily newspaper in Australia with 224,689 sales Monday to Friday, and 326,767 on Saturdays (June 2006 figures). It is Brisbane's only daily newspaper. Around three-quarters of the paper's readership is located in the Brisbane metropolitan area.4
Journalists
Prominent journalists and columnists include Terry Sweetman and Mike O'Connor. Its current Editor is David Fagan, who is married to columnist and 612 ABC Brisbane radio broadcaster Madonna King. Deputy editor is Steve Gibbons, former editor-in-chief of the Australian Provincial Newspapers group and a senior editor at The Age and Sunday Age in Melbourne. Its editorial cartoonist is Sean Leahy.
Change to tabloid
From its inception until recently The Courier-Mail was a broadsheet newspaper. On 14 December 2005 it was announced that the paper would change to a tabloid sometime in early 2006. The last broadsheet edition was published on Saturday 11 March 2006, and the first tabloid edition was published on Monday 13 March 2006. On the same day, the paper's website was revamped and expanded.
The change to a "compact" format brought The Courier-Mail in line with all other News Limited Australian metropolitan daily newspapers. This followed the change to a tabloid format by The Advertiser of Adelaide - another News Corporation newspaper - some years earlier.
References
- ^ T. B. Stephens (July 2, 1868). "Notice", The Brisbane Courier.
- ^ Stephens, Thomas Blacket (1819 - 1877), Australian Dictionary of Biography
- ^ Judith Womersley, Mark Richmond (2001). AussieData: From Prehistory to the Present. Wakefield Press. p. 160. ISBN 1862545456.
- ^ "The Courier-Mail Demographics". Retrieved on 2007-02-09.
See also
External links
- Digitised historic Courier-Mail and Brisbane Courier from the National Library of Australia
- The Courier-Mail online
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