News.com.au (stylised in all lowercase) is an Australian website owned by News Corp Australia. It had 9.6 million readers in April 2019[2] and covers national and international news, lifestyle, travel, entertainment, technology, finance and sport.
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| Format | Online newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner | News Corp Australia |
| Editor | Kerry Warren[1] |
| Deputy editor | Liz Burke[1] |
| News editor | Daniel Peters; Ben Graham; Shannon Molloy[1] |
| Photo editor | Victoria Nielsen[1] |
| Website | www |
Staff
editThe organisation employs about 80 journalists, among them Walkley award-winning journalist Samantha Maiden as national political editor,[3] and Joe Hildebrand as a columnist.[1]
Web analytics
editAccording to third-party web analytics providers, Alexa Internet, news.com.au was the 12th most visited website in Australia in March 2022.[4] On the web analytics platform Similarweb news.com.au was ranked the 12th most visited website in Australia in January 2025 and was ranked number one in news & media publishers in Australia.[5] Similarweb also stated that the website attracted more than 74 million visitors in January 2025.[5] Nielsen Online Ratings rated news.com.au as Australia's most popular news website as of January 2015.[6]
Whilst frequently ranked as the number-one visited Australian news website in Australia during 2019; as of June 2020, news.com.au had slipped to the third most visited news website in Australia after ABC News Online and Daily Mail Australia.[7]
In November 2024, news.com.au was shown to be the second most-read news media of any format in Australia from an Ipsos iris ranking.[8]
Awards
edit- Walkley Awards 2021: June Andrews Women’s Leadership in Media – 'Let Her Speak'
- Our Watch Award 2021 – Samantha Maiden for her Brittany Higgins exclusive
- Mumbrella Publish Awards 2021: Journalist of the Year – Samantha Maiden
- Mumbrella Publish Awards 2021: Single Article of the Year – Samantha Maiden for her report on Brittany Higgins
- B&T's Women In Media Awards 2021: Woman of the Year – Nina Funnell for LetHerSpeak
- B&T's Women In Media Awards 2021: Glass Ceiling Award – Nina Funnell
- B&T's Women In Media Awards 2021: Journalist of the Year – Nina Funnell
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b c d e "The Editorial Team". news.com.au. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "April 2019 digital news rankings". The Nielsen Company (Press release). Sydney, Australia. 20 May 2019. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ "Samantha Maiden: "Hawaii Two-O: Scott Morrison's bushfire holiday" – All Media: Scoop of the Year". The Walkley Foundation. 2020. Archived from the original on 13 February 2025. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "news.com.au Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Traffic Statistics. Archived from the original on 29 March 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- ^ a b "news.com.au Website Analysis for January 2025". Similarweb. January 2025. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ Burton-Bradley, Robert (11 February 2015). "News site audiences dive but News.com.au increases lead at the top of online ratings in January". Mumbrella. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Kelly, Vivienne (4 June 2020). "News.com.au tumbles to sixth in ranking of Australia's most popular websites, as ABC maintains lead". Mumbrella. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Jolly, Nathan (22 November 2024). "Readers flee from The Guardian, Herald, Daily Mail, and news.com.au". Mumbrella. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
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