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The Daily Telegraph is a
tabloid newspaper published in
Sydney,
New South Wales, by
Nationwide News, part of
News Corporation.
The Tele, as it's affectionately known, was founded in 1879 and was a staple in Sydney print media right up until 1990 when it
merged with its afternoon sister paper
The Daily Mirror to form
The Daily Telegraph-Mirror with morning and afternoon editions though 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.
Its
Melbourne counterpart is the
The Herald Sun.
The Saturday edition is called
The Saturday Daily Telegraph and the Sunday edition is called
The Sunday Telegraph.
Politics
The
Telegraph's most high-profile columnists, among them
Piers Akerman, are politically conservative. The
Telegraph has a particular focus on issues such as crime, and primary and secondary education.
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 don't accurately and fairly report the news?", the
Daily Telegraph came third (9%) behind the
Herald-Sun (11%) and "All of them" (16%).
Controversies
John Brogden allegations
The
Telegraph was widely criticised for its coverage of former New South Wales
Liberal 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.
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 Druitt High School in outer
Western Sydney in which no student scored a Tertiary Entrance Rank above 50 (the top 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
Bangalore,
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 don't employ overseas call centre staff in India. Subsequently, ANZ "pulled all of its advertising from
News Limited, including
Foxtel and News websites. Our advertising with News Limited is worth $4 to 5 million and accounts for about 10 per cent of ANZ's advertising budget".
Editor
David Penberthy leapt to McIlveen's defence saying that McIlveen wasn't to blame at all and that it was Penberthy's fault.
Plagiarism
Former Telegraph journalist, Matt Sun, was caught out for significant and ongoing
plagiarism by the TV program
Media Watch. Editor at the time, Campbell Reid, refused to acknowledge the accusations of plagiarism, instead choosing to attack
Media Watch. Subsequently, Sun was sent to
London to work for the tabloid newspaper
The Sun. Sun now writes for the free afternoon tabloid
Mx in Sydney. This is seen as a demotion as he's been unable to gain employment back at a major newspaper.
Staff
The
Telegraph is edited by
David Penberthy. His predecessor was Campbell Reid, and prior to that the Tele was edited by
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 and
Luke McIlveen.
Past writers for the newspaper include
Mark Day,
Miranda Devine,
Mike Gibson and
David Luff.
Website
The Managing Editor Online is Glen Stanaway.
The Daily Telegraph is distributed in a number of online formats:
Blogs
The Daily Telegraph website hosts the blogs of several columnists.
Piers Akerman
- Political columnist 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.
Luke McIlveen - Blog
Steve Mascord - Rugby League reporter.
Joe Hildebrand - Journalist Blog.Further Information
Get more info on 'The Daily Telegraph Australia'.
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