weekly newspaper
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, launched on 1 March 2014 in
hard copy
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, as an
online newspaper
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and in mobile news format. The paper is circulated throughout Australian capital cities and major regional centres. Since its launch ''The Saturday Paper'' has maintained a focus on long-form journalism and in-depth coverage of current affairs, arts and
Australian politics
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.
Publication
''The Saturday Paper'' is published by
Morry Schwartz
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via Schwartz Media, which also publishes books via Black Inc, the magazine ''
The Monthly
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'' and the ''
Quarterly Essay
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''. Upon its launch Schwartz stated he expected ''The Saturday Paper'' to be profitable within several years, and the paper should sell "between 60,000 and 80,000 copies a week".
Editors
Author Erik Jensen was the paper's editor from its founding until June 2018, when
Vice Media
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features editor Maddison Connaughton was appointed to the position. Jensen became the paper's editor-in-chief. He was the paper's representative on the judging panel for the annual
Horne Prize
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since its inception in 2016. Jensen replaced Connaughton as editor in June 2021.
Contributors
Regular contributors include journalists
Paul Bongiorno
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Personal life
Bongiorno grew up in Ballarat, Victoria, and was educated by the Christian Brothers at St Patrick's College, Ballarat, St Patrick's College ...
John Hewson
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Hewson was ...
and cartoonist Jon Kudelka.
Other contributors include
Behrouz Boochani
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,
Fiona McGregor
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Early life and education
McGregor was born in Sydney, New South W ...
Christos Tsiolkas
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Maxine Beneba Clarke
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Her collection of short stories ''Foreign Soil'' won the 2013 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award, the 2015 ...
,
Richard Flanagan
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Flanagan was described by the ''Washing ...
, Kate Holden, Maddee Clark, Martin McKenzie-Murray, Clem Bastow, Shaad D'Souza,
Sarah Krasnostein
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Education
Krasnostein completed a BA/LLB (honours) degree from the University of Melbourne in 2005. She was admitted as an attorney of the State of New York i ...
, economist
Richard Denniss
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, former television presenter
Leigh Sales
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Tony Windsor
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,
Kevin Rudd
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and
Rob Oakeshott
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. In 2020, poet, playwright and novelist
Alison Croggon
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Life and career
Born in the Transvaal, South Africa, Alison Croggon's family moved to England before settling in Australia, first in Bal ...