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The Sydney Morning Herald was founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald by Ward Stephens, Frederick Stokes, and William McGarvie. It began as a four-page weekly with a print run of 750 copies and started publishing daily in 1840.
The Sydney Morning Herald is owned by Nine Entertainment. Fairfax Media merged into Nine Entertainment on the 10th of December 2018, ending nearly 150 years of Fairfax family association with the paper.
The Sydney Morning Herald's editorial stance is generally centrist. A 2004 editorial described its guiding themes as "market libertarianism and social liberalism." It has been described as the most centrist of Australia's three major national publications.
Column 8 is a reader-submitted column in The Sydney Morning Herald first published on the 11th of January 1947. It originally occupied the eighth and final column of the broadsheet's front page and is known for quirky urban observations, wordplay, and esoteric topics.
Following the Myall Creek massacre, in which at least twenty-eight unarmed Wirraayaraay men, women and children were killed, the Sydney Herald published a letter from a squatter defending the killings and ran editorials urging emulation of the mass killing of Native Americans. In 2023, the paper formally apologised for that coverage.
The final broadsheet Saturday edition was published on the 22nd of February 2014, with the compact format launching on the 1st of March 2014. The printing plant at Chullora was decommissioned in June 2014.