News.com.au
Australian news website
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News.com.au (stylised in all lowercase) is an Australian website owned by News Corp Australia. It had 9.6 million readers in April 2019[2] and covers national and international news, lifestyle, travel, entertainment, technology, finance and sport.
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| Format | Online newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner | News Corp Australia |
| Editor | Kerry Warren[1] |
| Deputy editor | Liz Burke[1] |
| News editor | Daniel Peters; Ben Graham; Shannon Molloy[1] |
| Photo editor | Victoria Nielsen[1] |
| Website | www |
Staff
The organisation employs about 80 journalists, among them Walkley award-winning journalist Samantha Maiden as national political editor,[3] and Joe Hildebrand as a columnist.[1]
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.[4] 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.[5] Similarweb also stated that the website attracted more than 74 million visitors in January 2025.[5] Nielsen Online Ratings rated news.com.au as Australia's most popular news website as of January 2015.[6]
Whilst frequently ranked as the number-one visited Australian news website in Australia during 2019; as of June 2020, news.com.au had slipped to the third most visited news website in Australia after ABC News Online and Daily Mail Australia.[7]
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.[8]
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
