The Daily Telegraph (Australia)

The Daily Telegraph is a tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

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Tabloid - Newspaper - Sydney - New South Wales - Rupert Murdoch - News Corporation

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The Tele, as it is affectionately known, was founded in 1879 and was a staple in Sydney print media right up until 1990 when it merged with its afternoon sister paper The Daily Mirror to form The Daily Telegraph-Mirror with morning and afternoon editions though the afternoon editions were later discontinued.

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1879 - 1990 - Merged - The Daily Mirror

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The new paper continued in this vein until January 1996 when reader pressure for a shorter title caused the name of the paper to revert to The Daily Telegraph, despite staff concerns that former Mirror readers would now feel disenfranchised.

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January - 1996

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The circulation of the newspaper in the first half of 2004 was around 409,000 per day, the largest of a Sydney newspaper.

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Like its British counterpart, the paper maintains a strong right wing conservative lean, with columnists such as Piers Akerman.

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British - Counterpart - Right wing - Conservative - Piers Akerman

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It has been nicknamed "The Daily Terror, "the "Terrorgraph" or the "Telecrap," especially by left-leaning intellectuals. It is more lurid than its Melbourne counterpart, the Herald Sun.

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Melbourne - Herald Sun

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The Saturday edition is called The Saturday Daily Telegraph and the Sunday edition is called The Sunday Telegraph.

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