The Age

The Age is a broadsheet daily newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. It is one of Australia's most influential newspapers, as well as one of the most consistently profitable.

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The Age was founded two Melbourne businessmen, John Cooke and Henry Cooke, and its first edition appeared on October 17, 1854. The venture was not initially a success, and in 1856 the Cookes sold the paper to Ebenezer Syme, a Scottish-born businessman, for 2,000 pounds. From its foundation the paper was self-consciously liberal in its politics: "aiming at a wide extension of the rights of free citizenship and a full development of representative institutions," and supporting "the removal of all restrictions upon freedom of commerce, freedom of religion and - to the utmost extent that is compatible with public morality - upon freedom of personal action."

Broadsheet: Broadsheet is a size and format for newspapers, and a descriptive term applied to papers which use that format rather than the smaller tabloid format. (A third, less common format is the Berliner.) Many broadsheets measure roughly 29? by 23? inches (74.9 cm × 59.7 cm) per spread, t...

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