Brisbane Times
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Type | News site |
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Format | Online |
Owner(s) | Nine Entertainment Co. |
Editor | Sean Parnell |
Founded | 7 March 2007 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Brisbane,Queensland,Australia |
Website | www |
Brisbane Timesis anonline newspaperforBrisbaneandQueensland,Australia.
History
[edit]TheBrisbane Timeswas launched on 7 March 2007[1]by then-Queensland PremierPeter Beattie.[2]The publication started with 14 journalists in an attempt by Fairfax to break into the South East Queensland market, competing against the website ofNews Corporation's incumbentThe Courier-Mail.
As of 20 November 2018,Brisbane Timeshas started a subscription model. Viewers are limited to approximately 25 article views per month before being faced with a newspaywall.
Ownership
[edit]It is owned and run byNine Publishing,publishers ofMelbourne'sThe Age,The Sydney Morning Heraldand othermastheads,plus subject-focusedwebsitesand business-centeredmagazine titles.The founding managing editor wasMitchell Murphy;[3]the current editor is Sean Parnell.
Web traffic
[edit]According to third-partyweb analyticsprovidersAlexaandSimilarWeb,theBrisbane Timesis the 191st and 250th most visited website in Australia respectively, as of August 2015.[4][5]SimilarWeb rates the site as the 24th most visited news website in Australia, attracting more than 2 million visitors per month.[5][6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Roberts, Greg; Sainsbury, Michael (8 March 2007)."Fairfax launches online in Brisbane".The Australian.Archived fromthe originalon 18 July 2012.
- ^Shackle, Eric (11 March 2007)."Brisbane's Newest Newspaper Goes Online - OhmyNews International".OhMyNews.Retrieved11 June2008.
- ^"Fairfax embraces Brisbane".Sydney Morning Herald.8 March 2007.Retrieved27 July2017.
- ^"Brisbanetimes.au Site Overview".Alexa. Archived fromthe originalon 5 March 2016.Retrieved2 August2015.
- ^ab"Brisbanetimes.au Analytics".SimilarWeb.Retrieved2 August2015.
- ^"Top 50 sites in Australia for News And Media".SimilarWeb. Archived fromthe originalon 25 August 2015.Retrieved2 August2015.
External links
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