The Sydney Morning Herald

Australian daily newspaper
Organization newspaper Q390216
The Sydney Morning Herald
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The Sydney Morning Herald

Summary

The Sydney Morning Herald is a newspaper[1]. It ranks in the top 0.17% of newspaper entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,181 views/month, #11 of 6,592).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Sydney Morning Herald is in the country of Australia[3].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's instance of is recorded as newspaper[4].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's instance of is recorded as website[5].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's instance of is recorded as newspaper of record[6].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's instance of is recorded as production company[7].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald was published by Fairfax Media[8].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald is owned by Fairfax Media[9].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's headquarters location is recorded as Sydney[10].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's place of publication is recorded as Sydney[11].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's Commons category is recorded as Sydney Morning Herald[12].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's language of work or name is recorded as English[13].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's archives at is recorded as Newspapers.com[14].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's country of origin is recorded as Australia[15].
  • January 1, 1831 marks the founding of The Sydney Morning Herald[16].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's parent organization or unit is recorded as Fairfax Media[17].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's official website is recorded as https://www.smh.com.au[18].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's political ideology is recorded as liberalism[19].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Sydney Morning Herald'}[20].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Sydney morning herald'}[21].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+1804'}[22].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+2003'}[23].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+2022'}[24].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's publication interval is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1'}[25].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's newspaper format is recorded as compact[26].
  • The Sydney Morning Herald's has works in the collection is recorded as National Museum of World Cultures[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

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  • Began / founded: 1831[28]

  • MusicBrainz ID: f42438b1-d914-455e-8eb0-a078e1f24d5f[29]

Body

Founding

January 1, 1831 marks the founding of The Sydney Morning Herald[16].

Operations

The Sydney Morning Herald's headquarters location is recorded as Sydney[10]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as Fairfax Media[17].

Ownership

The Sydney Morning Herald is owned by Fairfax Media[9].

Why It Matters

The Sydney Morning Herald ranks in the top 0.17% of newspaper entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,181 views/month, #11 of 6,592).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Newspapers.com. Retrieved . newspapers.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . www.acmi.net.au. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Newspapers.com. Retrieved . newspapers.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Newspapers.com. Retrieved . newspapers.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Trove. Retrieved . newspapers.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Newspapers.com. Retrieved . newspapers.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . NMVW-collection website. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Brookschofield · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent organization or unit Fairfax Media
    Title {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Sydney Morning Herald'}, {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Sydney morning herald'}
    Muck rack media outlet id smh
    Alexa rank {'amount': '+1804'}, {'amount': '+2003'}, {'amount': '+2022'}
    + 115 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/33305|batch #33305]]: Add "language of work" Oz English to "official website""
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