Popular Australia News Sites

Rupert Murdoch, 80 years old, is Chairman and CEO of News Corporation. The native Australian is a major media mogul and a well-known figure in the news industry. The net worth of Rupert Murdoch is $7.6 billion.

What are the the top websites that Aussies visit to read the news?

TOP FIVE NEWS SITES

1. 9News — ninemsn is Australia’s largest online content publisher with 9.8 million people visiting the site each month – reaching 67% of the online population. A joint venture between Nine Entertainment Co. and Microsoft, ninemsn draws on the exemplary products and services of these two powerhouse organizations to deliver outstanding online and mobile news, information, entertainment and social networking capabilities. On average, each person visiting ninemsn views 170 pages and spends over 2 hours on the network a month – more than any other portal.

2. The Sydney Morning Herald — The Herald’s website, smh.com.au, received 241,175 unique visitors on September 12, at the time its biggest day since launching in 1995, but now less than the daily average. Newspaper sales figures climbed as high as they had in almost 30 years.

3. new.au.com — News.com.au is Australia’s 3rd most popular news service with 4.5 million monthly unique browsers. Publishes news stories and multimedia created by a team of about 25 journalists as well as journalism from Murdoch’s Australian newspapers.

4. The Age — theage.com.au is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales and is delivered in both a hardcopy and online format.

5. Yahoo!7– Yahoo!7 is a 50-50 partnership between the Seven Network and Yahoo! Inc. in Australia.