The Age
The Age is Melbourne's metropolitan daily, founded in 1854 and owned by Nine Entertainment following its 2018 merger with Fairfax Media. Alongside its Sydney stablemate it produces subscription-funded quality journalism covering Victorian and national affairs, and its editorial outlook is generally characterized as centre-left, contrasting with News Corp's Melbourne tabloid the Herald Sun.
The Age at a glance
- Country
- Australia
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 1854
- Owner
- Nine Entertainment
- Published from
- Melbourne
- Website
- theage.com.au ↗
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How Crosswire groups The Age
Crosswire groups The Age as Left-leaning for comparisons within Australia's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Australia, ABC News is listed as Centrist, while The Australian and news.com.au are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open The Age beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where The Age sits in Australia's press
The Age was founded in 1854, is published from Melbourne and is owned by Nine Entertainment. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Australia, and one of 3 daily newspapers among them — the others being The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian. By outlets tracked, Australia ranks first of the 8 countries on Crosswire's Oceania hub, which lists 32 outlets in all.
Across Oceania, Crosswire tracks 13 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to The Age outside Australia, starting with Australia and New Zealand, are Vanuatu Daily Post (Vanuatu), Samoa Observer (Samoa), The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand) and The National (Papua New Guinea). Opening one of them beside The Age is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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