Newspaper readership in Australia 2019 by leading masthead

Thanks to digital advancements and the Internet, both local and global news are just a click or a tap away. As of 2019, the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia emerged as the country’s leading newspaper in terms of both its print and online editions.

 Newspaper readership in Australia 

Aside from the two national newspapers, Australia’s print news sector is populated by a variety of regional daily and weekly newspapers. The Sunday Telegraph, a weekly publication In the state of New South Wales, boasted of a readership comprising 587 thousand subscribers in period between March 2019 and March 2020. During the same period in Victoria, the newspaper readership had almost been monopolized by the Herald Sun and its Sunday edition.

 Accessing news in Australia

While print media struggles to sustain itself, the Internet caters to the more tech savvy, news hungry masses. As of February 2018, about 29 percent of Australians under the age of 35 had paid subscriptions for online news. News media outlets have also tapped this potential and use YouTube to publish daily news content, the most successful channel being that of the Sydney Morning Herald with 11 million views as of June 2019.