The Canberra Times

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| name = The Canberra Times

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| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Compact

| owners = Australian Community Media

| publisher =

| editor = John-Paul Moloney

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| foundation = {{Start date and age|1926}}

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| headquarters = 121 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra City, ACT

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| ISSN = 0157-6925

| eISSN = 2653-0996

| oclc = 220340116

| website = {{nowrap|{{URL|http://www.canberratimes.com.au/}}}}

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File:The Canberra Times and The Chronicle at Fyshwick.jpg

The Canberra Times is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times.

History

The Canberra Times was launched in 1926 by Thomas Shakespeare along with his oldest son Arthur Shakespeare and two younger sons Christopher and James.{{cite news |last=Waterford |first=Jack |author-link=Jack Waterford |date=3 March 2013 |title=History of a paper anniversary |url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/history-of-a-paper-anniversary-20130302-2fd76.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130917072242/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/history-of-a-paper-anniversary-20130302-2fd76.html |archive-date=17 September 2013 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=Fairfax Media |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory}} The newspaper's headquarters were originally located in the Civic retail precinct, in Cooyong Street and Mort Street, in blocks bought by Thomas Shakespeare in the first sale of Canberra leases in 1924.{{cite news |last=Clayton |first=C.J. |date=24 April 1987 |title=Our first issue was in 1926 |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118186801 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=John Fairfax and Sons |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=61 |issue=18,630}}

The newspaper's first issue was published on 3 September 1926. It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being The Federal Capital Pioneer.{{cite web|title=ACT Heritage Library Newspaper Holdings|url=http://www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/search/local_and_regional_newspapers|publisher=Libraries ACT|access-date=29 November 2013}}{{cite web|title=Federal Capital Pioneer (Canberra, ACT: 1924–1926)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title69|publisher=Trove|access-date=29 November 2013}} Between September 1926 and February 1928, the newspaper was a weekly issue. The first daily issue was 28 February 1928. In June 1956, The Canberra Times converted from broadsheet to tabloid format.{{citation|url=https://www.nla.gov.au/anplan/heritage/1951-2005.html|title=Press timeline: Select chronology of significant Australian press events to 2011|first=Rod|last=Kirkpatrick|publisher=National Library of Australia|archive-date=1 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801053732/http://www.nla.gov.au/anplan/heritage/1951-2005.html}}

Arthur Shakespeare sold the paper to John Fairfax Ltd in 1964, on the condition that it continue to advocate for Canberra.{{cite news |date=1 May 1964 |title=National Newspaper in Canberra |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104291113 |accessdate=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=John Fairfax Limited |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=38 |issue=10,836}} Soon after, in July 1964, the format was switched back to broadsheet and printing was moved to Fairfax's newly installed press in Fyshwick. Offices remained open in the Civic retail precinct until April 1987 when The Canberra Times moved its entire operation to the new office of The Federal Capital Press of Australia, also in Fyshwick.{{cite news |last=Salins |first=Christine |date=24 April 1987 |title=Our move to Fyshwick |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118186806 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=John Fairfax and Sons |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=61 |issue=18,830}}

In 1988, the paper and the Federal Capital Press was sold to Kerry Packer's Australian Consolidated Press for a total amount of $250 million,

{{cite news |last=Wright |first=Tony |date=12 January 1988 |title=Sale of Federal Capital Press goes through |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101969140 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=Australian Consolidated Press |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=62 |issue=19,091}} which in turn sold it to Kerry Stokes in 1989 for a price greater than $65 million.{{Cite news |last=Wright |first=Tony |date=4 July 1989 |title=Kerry Stokes buys The Canberra Times |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122280503 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=Federal Capital Press |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=63 |issue=19,627}} Rural Press Limited bought the paper from Stokes in August 1998 for $160 million.{{cite news |last=Schulze |first=Jane |date=25 August 1998 |title=Rural Fairfax buys back into mainstream |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWGLNB&req_dat=3AB36969C29445C598BFB754B6281F39&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F11BC023A44FBF488 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240426224452/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWGLNB&req_dat=3AB36969C29445C598BFB754B6281F39&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=document_id:news%252F11BC023A44FBF488 |archive-date=26 April 2024 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Age |publisher=John Fairfax Holdings |location=Melbourne |page=5 |via=NewsBank}} The Times rejoined the Fairfax stable in 2007 when Rural Press merged with Fairfax.{{Cite news |date=10 May 2007 |title=Rural Press, Fairfax officially merged |url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/rural-press-fairfax-officially-merged-20070510-gdq3ov.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501074940/https://www.smh.com.au/business/rural-press-fairfax-officially-merged-20070510-gdq3ov.html |archive-date=1 May 2019 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Fairfax Media |location=Sydney |language=en-AU}} The paper first went online on 31 March 1997.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}

In 2008, The Canberra Times printed a formal apology{{cite news |date=13 September 2008 |title=Apology to Daniel Pipes |url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/apology-to-daniel-pipes/1275090.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917140225/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/apology-to-daniel-pipes/1275090.aspx |archive-date=17 September 2008 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=Fairfax Media |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory}} after the paper published an essay in which Irfan Yusuf falsely accused American historian Daniel Pipes of suggesting that Muslims deserved to be slaughtered as Jews were during The Holocaust.{{cite news |last=Yusuf |first=Irfan |author-link=Irfan Yusuf |date=18 August 2008 |title=Justice the remedy required to help Bosnia heal |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWGLNB&req_dat=3AB36969C29445C598BFB754B6281F39&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F148A3CB98364FCF0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240427065351/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWGLNB&req_dat=3AB36969C29445C598BFB754B6281F39&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F148A3CB98364FCF0 |archive-date=27 April 2024 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=Fairfax Media |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |page=15 |via=NewsBank}}{{Cite press release |title=Irfan Yusuf Apologizes to Daniel Pipes |date=17 September 2008 |publisher=Middle East Forum |location=Philadelphia |url=http://www.meforum.org/press/1983 |access-date=27 April 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919092701/http://www.meforum.org/press/1983 |archive-date=19 September 2008}}

On 17 October 2008, The Canberra Times was distributed with a sticker advertising the ACT Labor Party on the front page. Complaints about the sticker prompted the general manager, Ken Nichols, to issue an explanation.{{cite news |last=Nichols |first=Ken |date=17 October 2008 |title=Sticker ads separate to editorial content |url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/sticker-ads-separate-to-editorial-content/1336079.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017151719/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/sticker-ads-separate-to-editorial-content/1336079.aspx |archive-date=17 October 2008 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=Fairfax Media |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory}}

In October 2013, Fairfax Media announced that The Canberra Times would be restructured to join the Australian Community Media Group of regional, agricultural and community newspapers, shifting from the metropolitan news division of Fairfax.{{cite news |last=Dyett |first=Kathleen |date=16 October 2013 |title=Restructure at The Canberra Times newspaper |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-16/restructure-at-the-canberra-times-newspaper/5026304 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319080803/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-16/restructure-at-the-canberra-times-newspaper/5026304 |archive-date=19 March 2015 |access-date=22 October 2013 |work=ABC News |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation}}{{cite news |last=Jackson |first=Sally |date=16 October 2013 |title=Canberra Times no longer a metro |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/canberra-times-no-longer-a-metro/story-e6frg996-1226741029934 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131022041009/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/canberra-times-no-longer-a-metro/story-e6frg996-1226741029934 |archive-date=22 October 2013 |access-date=22 October 2013 |newspaper=The Australian |publisher=News Corp Australia |location=Sydney}} A new editorial leadership team was appointed in November 2015, with Grant Newton as editor of the newspaper and Scott Hannaford as deputy editor and news director.{{cite news |date=6 November 2015 |title=New editor and deputy editor announced for The Canberra Times as audience grows |url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/new-editor-and-deputy-editor-announced-for-the-canberra-times-as-audience-grows-20151106-gksx28.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309071253/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/new-editor-and-deputy-editor-announced-for-the-canberra-times-as-audience-grows-20151106-gksx28.html |archive-date=9 March 2016 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=Fairfax Media |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |page=2 |id={{ProQuest|1731419078}}}}

In March 2016, staff at the newspaper were told there would be a restructure at The Canberra Times and that the paper would move from a broadsheet format to a tabloid.{{cite news |date=31 March 2016 |title=Canberra Times to shed jobs in move to new format |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-31/canberra-times-to-shed-jobs-as-it-moves-to-new-format/7289376 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402093943/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-31/canberra-times-to-shed-jobs-as-it-moves-to-new-format/7289376 |archive-date=2 April 2016 |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=ABC News |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation}} Fairfax Media also announced they would be cutting 12 jobs from the newspaper's staff.{{cite news |last=Ward |first=Miranda |date=31 March 2016 |title=Canberra Times goes compact; Fairfax Media to cut 12 full-time editorial positions across ACT |url=https://mumbrella.com.au/canberra-times-fairfax-media-compact-356717 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403032412/http://mumbrella.com.au/canberra-times-fairfax-media-compact-356717 |archive-date=3 April 2016 |access-date=14 January 2017 |website=Mumbrella}}

In September 2021, The Canberra Times moved from its Fyshwick headquarters to an office building on Marcus Clarke Street in Civic.{{cite news |date=3 September 2021 |title=The Canberra Times is relocating from Fyshwick back to the city centre |url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7414679/city-homecoming-for-the-canberra-times/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 December 2022 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=Australian Community Media |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |id={{ProQuest|2568691304}}}}

Content

=''The Guide''=

The Guide was launched in July 1988, as a television and radio guide.{{cite news |date=11 July 1988 |title=THE GUIDE |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102031832 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=John Fairfax and Sons |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |page=21 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=62 |issue=19,271}}

Notable staff

The paper's editors have included Jack Waterford and Michelle Grattan (1993–95). A recent editor-in-chief, Peter Fray, left in January 2009 to edit The Sydney Morning Herald. He was succeeded by Rod Quinn, formerly of the Newcastle Herald.{{Cite news |date=3 February 2009 |title=New editor |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWGLNB&req_dat=3AB36969C29445C598BFB754B6281F39&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F148A3B94D6EB2448 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240427051541/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWGLNB&req_dat=3AB36969C29445C598BFB754B6281F39&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=document_id:news%252F148A3B94D6EB2448 |archive-date=27 April 2024 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=Fairfax Media |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |page=2 |via=NewsBank}} He announced the formation of a new senior editorial team in 2012.{{cite news |date=8 September 2012 |title=The Canberra Times unveils new senior editorial team |url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/the-canberra-times-unveils-new-senior-editorial-team-20120907-25kbk.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207055144/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/the-canberra-times-unveils-new-senior-editorial-team-20120907-25kbk.html |archive-date=7 February 2015 |access-date=31 December 2014 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=Fairfax Media |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory}} {{As of|2015|since=y}}, the managing editor is John-Paul Moloney.{{Cite web |title=About Us {{!}} The Canberra Times {{!}} Canberra, ACT |url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/about-us/ |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=The Canberra Times |language=en-AU}}

Editorial cartoonists have included Geoff Pryor,{{cite news |date=25 November 1979 |title=Geoff Pryor's book of cartoons on sale |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110969754 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=54 |issue=16,132}} David Pope{{Cite news |last=Wright |first=Jessica |date=1 March 2008 |title=After a colourful 30 years, Pryor's stellar career draws to a close |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=Fairfax Media |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |page=2 |id={{ProQuest|1020376292}}}} and Pat Campbell.{{Cite news |last=Schafer |first=Gary |date=13 June 2003 |editor-last=Musa |editor-first=Helen |title=Ink's the link as cartooning trio presses the point |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWGLNB&req_dat=3AB36969C29445C598BFB754B6281F39&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F148A80D4F730F7A0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240427054425/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWGLNB&req_dat=3AB36969C29445C598BFB754B6281F39&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=document_id:news%252F148A80D4F730F7A0 |archive-date=27 April 2024 |access-date=27 April 2024 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |publisher=Rural Press |location=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |page=9 |via=NewsBank}}