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The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
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The Daily Telegraph is an Australian tabloid newspaper
published in Sydney, New South Wales
, by Nationwide News, part of News Corporation
.
The Tele, as it is also known, was founded in 1879. From 1936 to 1972, it was owned by Frank Packer
's Australian Consolidated Press. That year it was sold to News Limited
. In 1990, it merged
with its afternoon sister paper The Daily Mirror
to form The Daily Telegraph-Mirror with morning and afternoon editions although the afternoon editions were later discontinued.
The new paper continued in this vein until January 1996 when reader pressure for a shorter title caused the name of the paper to revert to The Daily Telegraph, despite staff concerns that former Mirror readers would now feel disenfranchised. The circulation of the newspaper in the first half of 2004 was around 409,000 per day, the largest of a Sydney newspaper.
The Daily Telegraph is available from retailers (newsagents, supermarkets, petrol stations, convenience stores, mixed business general stores, etc.) in Sydney, regional areas of New South Wales
(excluding some towns near the state borders of Victoria, South Australia and Queensland), Canberra
and South East Queensland
(Brisbane, Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast).
On 19 November 2010, The Daily Telegraph released their iPad application enabling users to view a custom version of the website.
counterparts are the Herald Sun
and Sunday Herald Sun.
In Brisbane
, it is linked with the The Courier-Mail
and The Sunday Mail
,
In Adelaide
, The Advertiser
and Sunday Mail,
In Perth
, The Sunday Times
,
In Hobart
, The Mercury
and The Sunday Tasmanian
,
In Darwin
, The Northern Territory News
and Sunday Territorian.
, are politically conservative.
A Roy Morgan
media credibility survey found that 40 per cent of journalists viewed News Limited newspapers as Australia's most partisan media outlet, ahead of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
on 25 per cent. The survey found that readers took a generally dim view of journalists. In response to the question "Which newspapers do you believe do not accurately and fairly report the news?", the Daily Telegraph came third (9%) behind the Herald Sun (11%) and "All of them" (16%).
At the Australian federal election, 2007 the Daily Telegraph for only the second time endorsed the Australian Labor Party
. At the Australian federal election, 2010 the Newspaper endorsed the Coalition and Tony Abbott
.
leader John Brogden. After Brogden resigned in 2005, the newspaper ran a front-page headline, "Brogden's Sordid Past: Disgraced Liberal leader damned by secret shame file," detailing past allegations of misconduct by Brogden. The following day, Brogden attempted suicide at his electoral office.
Rodney Tiffen
, an academic at the University of Sydney
, described the newspaper's coverage as an example of "hyena journalism", judging Brogden's personal life to be off limits following his withdrawal from public life.
Editor David Penberthy
claimed that his source was from inside the Liberal Party
and that none of the events would have happened if no one leaked from inside the party.
High School in outer Western Sydney
in which no student scored a Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER) above 50 (the maximum possible mark is 100). Although the article made clear that the newspaper believed that the state had failed the students, many accused the Telegraph of branding the students themselves as failures and showing a full year photo identifying students.
The story led to a renewed focus on the quality of public schools in Western Sydney and precipitated several reviews of schooling in the area. But for many, the headline highlighted problems with interpreting Higher School Certificate results and the accompanying TER.
The students successfully sued the newspaper in the Supreme Court for defamation. The Telegraph subsequently apologised and settled for damages out of court. The published apology stated:
Later, criticising defamation laws, News Limited CEO John Hartigan said that
, India. The paper even sent a journalist to Bangalore, Luke McIlveen, and a photographer to verify this claim. ANZ strongly denied the claim, stating that they do not employ overseas call centre staff in India. Subsequently, ANZ pulled all of its advertising from News Limited
, including Foxtel
and News websites.
In assuming blame, David Penberthy
defended McIlveen.
by the TV program Media Watch. Editor at the time, Campbell Reid, responded by accusing Media Watchs host of having a conflict of interest that "destroyed the credibility of any judgement he could pass on the ethics and standards of others in the media".
, Campbell Reid, David Banks
and Col Allan
, who now serves as editor-in-chief at the Murdoch-owned New York Post
.
Columnists include Piers Akerman
, Tim Blair
and education specialist Maralyn Parker. Journalists include Malcolm Farr
, Joe Hildebrand
and Luke McIlveen.
Past writers for the newspaper include Mark Day, the late Peter Frilingos
, Miranda Devine
, Mike Gibson, Peter Holder and David Luff
.
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
published in Sydney, New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, by Nationwide News, part of News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
.
The Tele, as it is also known, was founded in 1879. From 1936 to 1972, it was owned by Frank Packer
Frank Packer
Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer, KBE , was an Australian media proprietor who controlled Australian Consolidated Press and the Nine Network.-Biography:...
's Australian Consolidated Press. That year it was sold to News Limited
News Limited
News Limited is one of Australia's largest diversified media companies. The publicly listed company's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, Pay TV, National Rugby League, market research, DVD and film distribution, and film and television production trading assets.News Limited...
. In 1990, it merged
Mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin, or a new field or...
with its afternoon sister paper The Daily Mirror
The Daily Mirror (Australia)
The Daily Mirror was an afternoon paper established by Ezra Norton in Sydney, Australia in 1941, gaining a licence from the Minister for Trade and Customs, Eric Harrison, despite wartime paper rationing. In October 1958, Norton and his partners sold his newspapers to the Fairfax group, which...
to form The Daily Telegraph-Mirror with morning and afternoon editions although the afternoon editions were later discontinued.
The new paper continued in this vein until January 1996 when reader pressure for a shorter title caused the name of the paper to revert to The Daily Telegraph, despite staff concerns that former Mirror readers would now feel disenfranchised. The circulation of the newspaper in the first half of 2004 was around 409,000 per day, the largest of a Sydney newspaper.
The Daily Telegraph is available from retailers (newsagents, supermarkets, petrol stations, convenience stores, mixed business general stores, etc.) in Sydney, regional areas of New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
(excluding some towns near the state borders of Victoria, South Australia and Queensland), Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
and South East Queensland
South East Queensland
South East Queensland is a region of the state of Queensland in Australia, which contains approximately two-thirds of the state population...
(Brisbane, Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast).
On 19 November 2010, The Daily Telegraph released their iPad application enabling users to view a custom version of the website.
Counterparts
Its MelbourneMelbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
counterparts are the Herald Sun
Herald Sun
The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia. It is published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Limited, itself a subsidiary of News Corporation. It is available for purchase throughout Melbourne, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital...
and Sunday Herald Sun.
In Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, it is linked with the The Courier-Mail
The Courier-Mail
The Courier-Mail is a daily newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia. Owned by News Limited, 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...
and The Sunday Mail
The Sunday Mail (Brisbane)
The Sunday Mail is Brisbane's only Sunday newspaper. The Sunday Mail is published in tabloid format, comprising several sections that can be extracted and read separately.-Publishing:...
,
In Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
, The Advertiser
The Advertiser
The Advertiser is the name of several newspapers around the world:* The Advertiser , Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - a daily News Corporation tabloid* The Advertiser , Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia...
and Sunday Mail,
In Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times (Western Australia)
The Sunday Times, owned by News Limited, is a tabloid Sunday newspaper printed in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia.-History:...
,
In Hobart
Hobart
Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
, The Mercury
The Mercury (Hobart)
The Mercury is a daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, part of News Limited and News Corporation...
and The Sunday Tasmanian
The Mercury (Hobart)
The Mercury is a daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, part of News Limited and News Corporation...
,
In Darwin
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
, The Northern Territory News
Northern Territory News
The Northern Territory News is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Darwin, Australia. It is a subsidiary of News Limited, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It primarily serves Darwin and the rest of the Northern Territory...
and Sunday Territorian.
Politics
The Telegraph's most high-profile columnists, among them Piers AkermanPiers Akerman
Piers Akerman is a right-wing commentator and columnist for The Daily Telegraph.-Brief biography:Born in Wewak, Papua New Guinea, Piers Akerman was raised in Perth by his parents, John, an Australian Government doctor, and Eve Akerman , a newspaper columnist and reviewer in Western Australia. He...
, are politically conservative.
A Roy Morgan
Roy Morgan Research
Roy Morgan Research is an Australian market research company headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria; it was founded in 1941 by Roy Morgan ; its Executive Chairman today is his son, Gary Morgan....
media credibility survey found that 40 per cent of journalists viewed News Limited newspapers as Australia's most partisan media outlet, ahead of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
on 25 per cent. The survey found that readers took a generally dim view of journalists. In response to the question "Which newspapers do you believe do not accurately and fairly report the news?", the Daily Telegraph came third (9%) behind the Herald Sun (11%) and "All of them" (16%).
At the Australian federal election, 2007 the Daily Telegraph for only the second time endorsed the Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
. At the Australian federal election, 2010 the Newspaper endorsed the Coalition and Tony Abbott
Tony Abbott
Anthony John "Tony" Abbott is the Leader of the Opposition in the Australian House of Representatives and federal leader of the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. Abbott has represented the seat of Warringah since the 1994 by-election...
.
John Brogden allegations
The Telegraph was widely criticised for its coverage of former New South Wales LiberalLiberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
leader John Brogden. After Brogden resigned in 2005, the newspaper ran a front-page headline, "Brogden's Sordid Past: Disgraced Liberal leader damned by secret shame file," detailing past allegations of misconduct by Brogden. The following day, Brogden attempted suicide at his electoral office.
Rodney Tiffen
Rodney Tiffen
Rodney Tiffen is an Australian emeritus professor of political science in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.Tiffen was educated at Monash University, and is considered a specialist in Australian mass media...
, an academic at the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
, described the newspaper's coverage as an example of "hyena journalism", judging Brogden's personal life to be off limits following his withdrawal from public life.
Editor David Penberthy
David Penberthy
David Penberthy is the editor-in-chief of News Limited opinion website, The Punch. He was editor of The Daily Telegraph in Sydney, Australia, from April 2005 until November 2008.-Career:Penberthy studied at the University of Adelaide in the late 1980s...
claimed that his source was from inside the Liberal Party
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
and that none of the events would have happened if no one leaked from inside the party.
Mount Druitt High School
On 8 January 1997, the Telegraph published the headline, "The class we failed" concerning was the Year 12 class at Mount DruittMount Druitt, New South Wales
Mount Druitt is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mount Druitt is located 43 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown, and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.There are numerous...
High School in outer Western Sydney
Greater Western Sydney
Greater Western Sydney is a term used to describe the western region of the metropolitan area of Sydney, Australia. The University of Western Sydney defines Greater Western Sydney as comprising 14 local government areas...
in which no student scored a Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER) above 50 (the maximum possible mark is 100). Although the article made clear that the newspaper believed that the state had failed the students, many accused the Telegraph of branding the students themselves as failures and showing a full year photo identifying students.
The story led to a renewed focus on the quality of public schools in Western Sydney and precipitated several reviews of schooling in the area. But for many, the headline highlighted problems with interpreting Higher School Certificate results and the accompanying TER.
The students successfully sued the newspaper in the Supreme Court for defamation. The Telegraph subsequently apologised and settled for damages out of court. The published apology stated:
Later, criticising defamation laws, News Limited CEO John Hartigan said that
Call centres in India
In October 2006, The Telegraph claimed in a front page article that ANZ were using call centres in BangaloreBangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
, India. The paper even sent a journalist to Bangalore, Luke McIlveen, and a photographer to verify this claim. ANZ strongly denied the claim, stating that they do not employ overseas call centre staff in India. Subsequently, ANZ pulled all of its advertising from News Limited
News Limited
News Limited is one of Australia's largest diversified media companies. The publicly listed company's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, Pay TV, National Rugby League, market research, DVD and film distribution, and film and television production trading assets.News Limited...
, including Foxtel
Foxtel
Foxtel is an Australian pay television company, operating cable, direct broadcast satellite television and IPTV services. It was formed in 1995 through a joint venture established between Telstra and News Corporation....
and News websites.
In assuming blame, David Penberthy
David Penberthy
David Penberthy is the editor-in-chief of News Limited opinion website, The Punch. He was editor of The Daily Telegraph in Sydney, Australia, from April 2005 until November 2008.-Career:Penberthy studied at the University of Adelaide in the late 1980s...
defended McIlveen.
Allegations of plagiarism
In 2002, former Telegraph journalist, Matt Sun, was accused of plagiarismPlagiarism
Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work, but the notion remains problematic with nebulous...
by the TV program Media Watch. Editor at the time, Campbell Reid, responded by accusing Media Watchs host of having a conflict of interest that "destroyed the credibility of any judgement he could pass on the ethics and standards of others in the media".
Staff
The Telegraph is edited by Gary Linnell. Linnell's predecessors are David PenberthyDavid Penberthy
David Penberthy is the editor-in-chief of News Limited opinion website, The Punch. He was editor of The Daily Telegraph in Sydney, Australia, from April 2005 until November 2008.-Career:Penberthy studied at the University of Adelaide in the late 1980s...
, Campbell Reid, David Banks
David Banks (journalist)
David Banks is a former British newspaper editor.-Early life:He attended Boteler Grammar School in Warrington.-Career:...
and Col Allan
Col Allan
Colin "Col" Allan is an Australian journalist. He served as the editor in chief of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph of Sydney, Australia and has served as editor in chief of the The New York Post since 2001....
, who now serves as editor-in-chief at the Murdoch-owned New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
.
Columnists include Piers Akerman
Piers Akerman
Piers Akerman is a right-wing commentator and columnist for The Daily Telegraph.-Brief biography:Born in Wewak, Papua New Guinea, Piers Akerman was raised in Perth by his parents, John, an Australian Government doctor, and Eve Akerman , a newspaper columnist and reviewer in Western Australia. He...
, Tim Blair
Tim Blair
Tim Blair is a conservative journalist, commentator and blogger working in Sydney, Australia.Blair began his journalism cadetship in 1988 at 23, working for the now-closed Truth newspaper in Melbourne. In 2004, the Sydney Morning Herald said that "Blair, 39, is top dog among the new Australian...
and education specialist Maralyn Parker. Journalists include Malcolm Farr
Malcolm Farr
Malcolm Farr is a political journalist in the Canberra Press Gallery covering the Parliament of Australia in Canberra, the national capital of Australia.-Work:Malcolm Farr is a well known political journalist....
, Joe Hildebrand
Joe Hildebrand
Joe Hildebrand is a journalist based on Sydney, Australia. Born in Melbourne, he moved to Sydney in 2000. Hildebrand works for The Daily Telegraph newspaper, as well as contributing to News Limited's opinion site The Punch...
and Luke McIlveen.
Past writers for the newspaper include Mark Day, the late Peter Frilingos
Peter Frilingos
Peter Frilingos was a sports journalist and commentator, best known for his work as a rugby league writer. He was affectionately known as Chippy because of his Greek background....
, Miranda Devine
Miranda Devine
Miranda Devine is an Australian columnist and writer noted for her conservative stance on a range of social and political issues. Her column, formerly printed twice weekly in Fairfax Media newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, now appears in the News Limited Daily Telegraph with...
, Mike Gibson, Peter Holder and David Luff
David Luff
David Luff, born 1969, is a former senior journalist with the Sydney-based, Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper The Daily Telegraph, and a former senior media adviser to the then Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard....
.
Blogs
The Daily Telegraph website hosts the blogs of several columnists.- Piers Akerman, right-wing conservative commentator since 1993
- Anita Quigley, TV, radio and newspaper journalist for 16 years
- Sydney Confidential, local and international gossip, glamour and celebrity news
- Maralyn Parker, award-winning education columnist's blog
- Tim Blair, blog
- Steve Mascord, Rugby League reporter
- Joe HildebrandJoe HildebrandJoe Hildebrand is a journalist based on Sydney, Australia. Born in Melbourne, he moved to Sydney in 2000. Hildebrand works for The Daily Telegraph newspaper, as well as contributing to News Limited's opinion site The Punch...
, journalist blog