''The Sunday Telegraph'' is an Australian tabloid newspaper, the separately published Sunday edition of ''
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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''. It is available throughout
Sydney
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, across most of regional and remote
New South Wales
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Australian Capital Territory
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South East Queensland
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. , ''The Sunday Telegraph'' is Australia's biggest selling newspaper.
History
The Sunday Telegraph was founded in 1939 by Frank Packer, as the weekend version of the Daily Telegraph, which he had acquired in 1936. On its first front page it reported on Nazi Germany's oppression of the Czechs, after the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938. The first editor was
Cyril Pearl
Cyril Alston Pearl (11 April 1904 – 3 March 1987) was an Australian journalist, editor, author, social historian, wit and television personality.
Life and career
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who worked with the editor of the Daily Telegraph Brian Penton to fight against government censorship during the war.
Publication
''The Sunday Telegraph'' is produced in the Holt Street offices of
Nationwide News
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, an Australian subsidiary of
Rupert Murdoch
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News Corp. It is printed at the Chullora and Gold Coast printing presses and distributed across
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Canberra
Canberra ( )
is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The ci ...
and
South East Queensland
South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, metropolitan, political and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million people out of the state's population of 5.1 million. T ...
.
Structure
''The Sunday Telegraph'' is a
tabloid style newspaper, with a strong emphasis on family and giveaways. The newspaper contains five distinct sections as well as five liftouts.
Sections
* News – breaking news and investigative journalism from around Australia.
* World – news from around the globe.
* Sport – features sport news from around Australia and the world (also includes ''The Punter'', a racing liftout.)
* Insider – the back pages of the newspaper, featuring gossip and celebrity news.
Liftouts
* ''Body+Soul'' – a health and lifestyle magazine with an emphasis on women.
* ''Stellar'' – a glossy liftout featuring interviews, fashion and delicious on Sunday food section.
* ''Escape'' – a large travel magazine featuring stories and travel deals.
* TV Guide – features television guide and entertainment news and reviews.
Editor
The current editor is Mick Carroll (former deputy editor of ''The Daily Telegraph'' and editor of the ''Townsville Bulletin'') who has edited the paper since 2012. Carroll also became editor of The Saturday Telegraph in 2019.
Accolades
In addition to being Australia's most widely read newspaper, ''The Sunday Telegraph'' won News Limited's Newspaper of the Year Award at the 2011 News Awards.
External links
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Newspapers published in New South Wales
Weekly newspapers published in Australia