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The Age has cross-platform readership of 4.56 million.

The Age maintains lead over rival in new readership figures

The Age has held its position as the second most-read masthead in the nation, with cross-platform readership of 4.56 million.

  • Staff reporter

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The Sydney Morning Herald has cross-platform readership of 6.9 million.

The Sydney Morning Herald remains the nation’s most-read masthead

New figures from Roy Morgan show The Sydney Morning Herald has a cross-platform readership of 6.9 million.

This most despised author’s task may soon vanish. I won’t miss it

Book blurbs have been around for centuries and have long been panned for hyperbole. Happily, at least one major publisher has decided enough’s enough.

  • Julia Baird

Poms, put aside your Ouija boards – Australians do have common sense about Sam Kerr

Short of words and desperate for a donut, a mother country scribe has decided to attack this columnist for his piece on the Matildas star.

  • John Silvester
Kristy McDonald, new owner of the Casterton News.

Reports of the death of country newspapers are distinctly premature

Kristy McDonald’s little newspaper, the Casterton News, was about to close. So she bought it. She is among those determined to keep country newspapers alive.

  • Tony Wright
Rebecca Yarros’ Empyrean series has been topping bestseller lists since 2023.

Dungeons, dragons and sex: The new genre that’s slaying publishing

A book about dragons, betrayal and sex has broken publishing records after its first week on shelves. What is it about “romantasy” novels that has readers in a chokehold?

  • Nell Geraets
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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, leaves the High Court after giving evidence in London, Tuesday, June 6, 2023.

Murdoch’s British tabloids offer rare apology in legal settlement with Prince Harry

The Murdoch-owned tabloids offered a “full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex” for years of serious intrusion into his private life.

  • Brian Melley
Maggie Tabberer at the Veuve clicquot awards, 2006.

Ageless style defied the career-limiting odds of the fashion industry

Helmut Newton pronounced the photographs of Maggie Tabberer to be “wonderful, just wonderful!”

  • Amy Ripley
ABC chair Kim Williams has found himself in an unlikely war of words with Joe Rogan and drawn criticism from the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

Joe Rogan v ABC boss: The unlikeliest of media spats

The unexpected war of words has also drawn in the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

  • Riley Walter and Josefine Ganko

Political cartoonist of the year? ‘You must be joking’

Megan Herbert has been crowned Australian political cartoonist of the year for her work, which appears regularly in this masthead.

  • Karl Quinn

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