The Sun-Herald
Encyclopedia
The Sun-Herald is an Australian tabloid newspaper
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 on Sundays in Sydney by Fairfax Media
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...

. It is the Sunday counterpart of The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The...

. In the 6 months to September 2005, The Sun-Herald had a circulation of 515,000. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, as of December 2009 its circulation has dropped to 443,257.

Its predecessor the broadsheet
Broadsheet
Broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages . The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of material, from ballads to political satire. The first broadsheet...

 Sunday Herald was first published in 1953. In 1988 with the discontinuation of the afternoon tabloid The Sun
The Sun (Australia)
The Sun was an afternoon tabloid newspaper, first published in 1910, by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia as the afternoon companion to the The Sydney Morning Herald.It was last published in March, 1988...

, the Sunday Sun was merged with the Sunday Herald to become the tabloid Sun-Herald.

The Sun-Herald has a readership of 1,159,000 (as of December 2009). Its target audience is generally more educated and affluent readers.

Liftouts and sections

  • S – Entertainment and gossip
  • Sunday Life
  • Travel
  • AFR Investor
  • Sunday Domain
  • Sports Sunday
  • Television – TV listings

Sponsorships

The City to Surf
City to Surf
City2Surf is a popular road running event held annually in Sydney, Australia covering a course. The event is a "fun run" as well as a race, attracting both serious runners and community participants who can choose to run or to walk...

, a 14 kilometre run from the city of 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...

 to Bondi Beach, is organised and run by the Sun Herald.

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