Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Compact |
Owner(s) | Nine Entertainment |
Editor | Patrick Elligett |
Founded | 17 October 1854 |
Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
Readership | Total 4.55 million September 2024 |
ISSN | 0312-6307 |
Website | theage |
The Age is a daily tabloid newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald.
The Age is considered a newspaper of record for Australia,[1] and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. As of March 2020[update], The Age had a monthly readership of 5.4 million. As of September 2024[update], this had fallen to 4.55 million.