The Sydney Morning Herald

Prominent columnists and journalists who write for The Sydney Morning Herald include Robert Manne, Doug Anderson, Paul Sheehan, Anthony Dennis, Mark Riley, Miranda Devine, Adele Horin, Michael Idato, Julia Baird, Mike Carlton, Gerard Henderson, Alan Ramsey, Peter FitzSimons, David Marr, Roy Masters, Keith Austin, Deborah Smith, Maggie Alderson and Richard Glover. Since the incident there have been efforts to rename the town Galole. It also owns various other newspapers and magazines throughout Australia and New Zealand, including The Age (a similar broadsheet newspaper published in Melbourne). Camp Hola was the site of the Hola massacre in 1959, which saw eleven Kenyans killed by British troops. The company also owns the The Sun-Herald, the Sunday counterpart to the Herald, and a number of community newspapers in Sydney. Hola, also known as Galole is a small town in Kenya on the Tana River, in the Coast Province with a population of 930. It is currently controlled by John Fairfax Holdings.

The Fairfax family owned the newspaper for 149 years but lost control of it on December 11, 1990 following financial misadventure of Warwick Fairfax. We have no wish to mislead; no interest to gratify by unsparing abuse or indiscriminate approbation.". Its editorial policies were based "upon principles of candour, honesty and honour. It became a daily newspaper in 1840, and in 1842 changed its name to The Sydney Morning Herald.

A decade later it was bought by Charles Kemp and John Fairfax. The paper was named after Scotland's Glasgow Herald, and was founded by three Englishmen, Alfred Stephens, Frederick Stokes and William McGarvie. It only had four pages and a circulation of 750 copies. The Sydney Morning Herald began its life as a weekly newspaper, the Sydney Herald.

Since the advent of the Internet, the Herald has developed an comprehensive online presence with all major news stories available for online viewing and retained online for some time. Tabloid newspapers, such as its competitor The Daily Telegraph, are considerably smaller, with each page having a size of approximately A3. The Herald is a broadsheet, meaning that each page is approximately A2 in size. Column 8 is another long-running institution.

The cryptic crossword in the Sydney Morning Herald is popular. It also produces two colour magazines, the weekly Good Weekend, and the monthly the(sydney)magazine. They currently include a motoring section, Drive, a food and lifestyle section, Good Living, a property section, Domain, and a television section, The Guide. The Sydney Morning Herald publishes a number of daily sections, as large-format magazines, some of which have been part of the newspaper's infrastructure for more than two decades.

Like The Age, the demographics of its readers are more attractive to many advertisers than its tabloid competitor. In the coverage of Fairfax's business affairs, this revenue has often been referred to as "rivers of gold". The Saturday edition of the Herald carries a massive classified section - a popular selling point and a powerful source of cash revenue for the company. The Herald sells 375,000 copies to the Telegraph's 345,000.

The Saturday editions of both papers are more closely matched. Its circulation is smaller than the Telegraph; according to circulation data published in the first half of 2004, the Herald sells about 221,000 copies per weekday compared to around 409,000 copies of the Telegraph. The Fairfax papers (the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age), seen as centrist, are often contrasted with the News Limited papers (The Australian, The Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun), which tend to be more right-leaning, and "the Fairfax press" is often used pejoratively by conservative commentators. Historically the paper was characterised as a right of centre, old-school conservative organ of the Establishment, providing a counter-point within Fairfax's holdings to the liberal Melbourne Age, especially during David Syme's tenure as editor of the latter, and it did not editorialise in favour of Labor at a state election until 2003.

The Herald attempts to maintain editorial balance, with both left leaning contributors like David Marr and cartoonist Michael Leunig, and conservative writers such as Miranda Devine and Gerard Henderson. It is often seen as the paper of the educated middle class. The Sydney Morning Herald is recorded as being read by a stronger representation of the so-called, "AB demographic", (the highest demographic in terms of education, income and occupation) than its main competitor, the only other major daily newspaper in Sydney, the Murdoch-owned The Daily Telegraph. .

Since then, over 51,000 editions have been produced. It is also the oldest Australian newspaper, having been continuously published since 1831. The Sydney Morning Herald is a major Australian broadsheet newspaper published daily in Australia's oldest and most populous city, Sydney.