St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
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The St George and Sutherland Shire Leader is a Fairfax Media
-owned community newspaper distributed in the southern Sydney
region. With a readership of 287,000, the Leader is the most-read suburban newspaper in the Sydney Metropolitan Area. The paper is published twice weekly, in two editions to cater for the St George and Sutherland
areas.
It was first published in 1960 and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2010. It was formed as a merger of smaller local newspapers: The Times, The Express, The District and Shire News and The Kingsgrove Riverwood Courier.
Fairfax Media
Fairfax Media Limited is one of Australia's largest diversified media companies. The group's operations include newspapers, magazines, radios and digital media operating in Australia and New Zealand. Fairfax Media was founded by the Fairfax family as John Fairfax and Sons, later to become John...
-owned community newspaper distributed in the southern Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
region. With a readership of 287,000, the Leader is the most-read suburban newspaper in the Sydney Metropolitan Area. The paper is published twice weekly, in two editions to cater for the St George and Sutherland
Sutherland Shire
The Sutherland Shire is a Local Government Area in the Southern Sydney region of Sydney, Australia. Geographically, it is the area to the south of Botany Bay and the Georges River...
areas.
It was first published in 1960 and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2010. It was formed as a merger of smaller local newspapers: The Times, The Express, The District and Shire News and The Kingsgrove Riverwood Courier.