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The Sydney Morning Herald

A Great Australian Newspaper and Tradition

The Sydney Morning Herald started life in 1831, only then it was called the Sydney Herald, and had been named after Scotland's Glasgow Herald.

The Sydney Herald was founded by three Englishmen, Alfred Stephens, Frederick Stokes and William McGarvie, who had all worked for an even earlier Sydney newspaper, the Sydney Gazette.


Newspaper magnate John Fairfax bought control of the Sydney Morning Herald in 1841, and this started the Fairfax family's control of the paper which lasted for 149 years.

The original front page of the Sydney Morning Herald carried just notices and advertisements. The news itself was buried at the end of page two.

In its very early days, the Sydney Morning Herald had to rely on ships for news. There was no telegraph (Morse code) connection between Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide until 1858, and international links did not begin until the 1870s.

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