news.com.au
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{{short description|Australian news website}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Use Australian English|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = {{noitalic|news.com.au}}
| image = News-com-au logo.svg
| format = Online newspaper
| owner = News Corp Australia
| website = {{url|https://www.news.com.au}}
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| newseditor = Daniel Peters; Ben Graham; Shannon Molloy
| photoeditor = Victoria Nielsen
}}
News.com.au (stylised in all lowercase) is an Australian website owned by News Corp Australia. It had 9.6 million unique readers in April 2019{{cite press release |date=20 May 2019 |title= April 2019 digital news rankings|url=https://www.nielsen.com/au/en/press-room/2019/nielsen-digital-content-ratings-april-2019-tagged-rankings.html |url-status=dead |location=Sydney, Australia |website=The Nielsen Company |access-date=6 September 2024 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190525123324/https://www.nielsen.com/au/en/press-room/2019/nielsen-digital-content-ratings-april-2019-tagged-rankings.html | archive-date = 25 May 2019}} and covers national and international news, lifestyle, travel, entertainment, technology, finance and sport.
Staff
The organisation employs about 80 journalists, among them Walkley award-winning journalist Samantha Maiden as national political editor,{{cite web |url=https://www.walkleys.com/award-winners/samantha-maiden/ |archive-date=13 February 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250213032742/https://www.walkleys.com/award-winners/samantha-maiden/ |access-date=29 March 2022 |title=Samantha Maiden: "Hawaii Two-O: Scott Morrison's bushfire holiday" – All Media: Scoop of the Year |year=2020 |publisher=The Walkley Foundation}} and Joe Hildebrand as a columnist.{{cite web |url=https://www.news.com.au/the-team |title=The Editorial Team |website=news.com.au |access-date=29 March 2022}}
Web analytics
According to third-party web analytics providers, Alexa Internet, news.com.au was the 12th most visited website in Australia in March 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.com.au|title=news.com.au Site Overview|at=Traffic Statistics|publisher=Alexa Internet|access-date=18 January 2019|archive-date=29 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329113507/https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.com.au#section_traffic|url-status=dead}} On the web analytics platform Similarweb news.com.au was ranked the 12th most visited website in Australia in January 2025 and was ranked number one in news & media publishers in Australia.{{cite web|url=https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.com.au|date=January 2025|title=news.com.au Website Analysis for January 2025|publisher=Similarweb|access-date=13 February 2025}} Similarweb also stated that the website attracted more than 74 million visitors in January 2025. Nielsen Online Ratings rated news.com.au as Australia's most popular news website as of January 2015.{{cite news|url=http://mumbrella.com.au/january-online-news-ratings-remain-steady-news-com-au-winning-275553|url-status=live|archive-date=13 February 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250213032415/http://mumbrella.com.au/january-online-news-ratings-remain-steady-news-com-au-winning-275553|last = Burton-Bradley | first = Robert|title=News site audiences dive but News.com.au increases lead at the top of online ratings in January|work=Mumbrella|date=11 February 2015|access-date=18 January 2019}}
Whilst frequently ranked as the number-one visited Australian news website in Australia during 2019; as of June 2020, news.com.au has slipped to the third most visited news website in Australia after ABC News Online and Daily Mail Australia.{{cite news|url=https://mumbrella.com.au/news-com-au-tumbles-to-sixth-in-ranking-of-australias-most-popular-websites-as-abc-maintains-lead-630211|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250213025620/https://mumbrella.com.au/news-com-au-tumbles-to-sixth-in-ranking-of-australias-most-popular-websites-as-abc-maintains-lead-630211|archive-date=13 February 2025|url-status=live|last = Kelly | first = Vivienne|title=News.com.au tumbles to sixth in ranking of Australia's most popular websites, as ABC maintains lead|work=Mumbrella|date=4 June 2020|access-date=24 June 2020}}
In November 2024, news.com.au was shown to be the second most-read news media of any format in Australia from an Ipsos iris ranking.{{cite news |work=Mumbrella |title=Readers flee from The Guardian, Herald, Daily Mail, and news.com.au |url=https://mumbrella.com.au/readers-flee-from-the-guardian-herald-daily-mail-and-news-com-au-857415 |access-date=13 February 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250213040012/https://mumbrella.com.au/readers-flee-from-the-guardian-herald-daily-mail-and-news-com-au-857415 |date=22 November 2024 |archive-date=13 February 2025 |url-status=live |first=Nathan |last=Jolly}}
Awards
- Walkley Awards 2021: June Andrews Women’s Leadership in Media – 'Let Her Speak'
- Our Watch Award 2021 – Samantha Maiden for her Brittany Higgins exclusive
- Mumbrella Publish Awards 2021: Journalist of the Year – Samantha Maiden
- Mumbrella Publish Awards 2021: Single Article of the Year – Samantha Maiden for her report on Brittany Higgins
- B&T's Women In Media Awards 2021: Woman of the Year – Nina Funnell for LetHerSpeak
- B&T's Women In Media Awards 2021: Glass Ceiling Award – Nina Funnell
- B&T's Women In Media Awards 2021: Journalist of the Year – Nina Funnell
See also
{{portal|Australia|Journalism}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.news.com.au}}
{{News Corp Australia|state=collapsed}}{{Online news in Australia}}