Newspapers
Melbourne has two major and one minor daily newspapers. Melbourne's daily newspapers include the broadsheet format The Age owned by Fairfax Media, the News Limited owned tabloid format Herald Sun, and the free afternoon tabloid format MX, also owned by News Limited.
A third major paper, the The Argus was discontinued in 1957. The Herald Sun was created from the merge of The Sun News-Pictorial and The Herald in 1990.
There are a variety of free, weekly newspapers focused on local suburban regions. These are usually distributed to households without subscription.
Melbourne is served by various newspapers published in languages other than English. These include newspapers published in Melbourne and those published elsewhere. There is also a wide variety of street press available in Melbourne.
- See also: List of newspapers in Australia.
Read more about this topic: Media In Melbourne
Famous quotes containing the word newspapers:
“There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we “can’t bear to throw away.””
—Russell Lynes (1910–1991)
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—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)