THE AGE
The Age est un quotidien australien édité à Melbourne. Le journal est publié par The Age Company Ltd, filiale du groupe de presse John Fairfax Holdings Limited qui édite également le Sydney Morning Herald, le Canberra Times, l'Australian Financial Review et le néozélandais Dominion Post. Son seul concurrent à Melbourne est le Herald Sun de Rupert Murdoch. Le journal a été fondé le 17 octobre 1854.
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Le journal est d'orientation centriste, parfois plutôt sociale-démocrate, pro-libre-échange et modérément libéral sur les questions sociales. Il publie notamment des articles du quotidien de gauche britannique The Guardian mais également des éditoriaux de personnalités conservatrices telles que Gerard Henderson. Cette position centriste contraste fortement avec celle, clairement de droite, de son concurrent qui le surnomme ironiquement «The Spencer Street Soviet» (The Age est localisé 250 Spencer Street à Melbourne depuis 1969).
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The Age is a daily newspaper which has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered in both hardcopy and online formats. The newspaper shares many articles with other Fairfax Media metropolitan daily newspapers, such as The Sydney Morning Herald.
As at December 2013, The Age had an average weekday circulation of 131,000, increasing to 196,000 on Saturdays (in a city of 4.2 million). The Sunday Age had a circulation of 164,000. These represented year-on-year declines of 14% to 17%.
The management board announced on 18 June 2012, that during the following three years, 1,900 positions were expected to be terminated from Fairfax Media, including many from The Age, that the broadsheet format would be changed to a compact format and that the online version would no longer have free access after the introduction of a paywall to protect content with an expectation of increased revenue. The newspaper went compact in March 2013, with the Saturday and Sunday editions retaining the broadsheet format. On 22/23 February 2014, the final weekend edition were produced in broadsheet format with these too converted to compact format on 1/2 March 2014.
The Age was founded by three Melbourne businessmen, the brothers John and Henry Cooke, who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s, and Walter Powell. The first edition appeared on 17 October 1854.
Ligne éditoriale
Le journal est d'orientation centriste, parfois plutôt sociale-démocrate, pro-libre-échange et modérément libéral sur les questions sociales. Il publie notamment des articles du quotidien de gauche britannique The Guardian mais également des éditoriaux de personnalités conservatrices telles que Gerard Henderson. Cette position centriste contraste fortement avec celle, clairement de droite, de son concurrent qui le surnomme ironiquement «The Spencer Street Soviet» (The Age est localisé 250 Spencer Street à Melbourne depuis 1969).
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The Age is a daily newspaper which has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered in both hardcopy and online formats. The newspaper shares many articles with other Fairfax Media metropolitan daily newspapers, such as The Sydney Morning Herald.
As at December 2013, The Age had an average weekday circulation of 131,000, increasing to 196,000 on Saturdays (in a city of 4.2 million). The Sunday Age had a circulation of 164,000. These represented year-on-year declines of 14% to 17%.
The management board announced on 18 June 2012, that during the following three years, 1,900 positions were expected to be terminated from Fairfax Media, including many from The Age, that the broadsheet format would be changed to a compact format and that the online version would no longer have free access after the introduction of a paywall to protect content with an expectation of increased revenue. The newspaper went compact in March 2013, with the Saturday and Sunday editions retaining the broadsheet format. On 22/23 February 2014, the final weekend edition were produced in broadsheet format with these too converted to compact format on 1/2 March 2014.
The Age was founded by three Melbourne businessmen, the brothers John and Henry Cooke, who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s, and Walter Powell. The first edition appeared on 17 October 1854.