News.com.au

news.com.au
FormatOnline newspaper
OwnerNews Corp Australia
EditorKerry Warren
Deputy editor
Liz Burke
News editor
Daniel Peters; Ben Graham; Shannon Molloy
Photo editor
Victoria Nielsen
Websitenews.com.au

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 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, and Joe Hildebrand as a columnist.

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. On the web analytics platform Similarweb, news.com.au was ranked the 12th-most-visited website in Australia in January 2025 and number one in news and media publishers in Australia. 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.

Whilst frequently ranked as the most visited Australian news website in Australia in 2019, news.com.au had later become the third-most-visited news website in Australia after ABC News Online and Daily Mail Australia by 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.

Awards

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "The Editorial Team". news.com.au. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "April 2019 digital news rankings". The Nielsen Company (Press release). Sydney, Australia. 20 May 2019. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  3. ↑ "Samantha Maiden: "Hawaii Two-O: Scott Morrison's bushfire holiday" – All Media: Scoop of the Year". The Walkley Foundation. 2020. Archived from the original on 13 February 2025. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  4. ↑ "news.com.au Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Traffic Statistics. Archived from the original on 29 March 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  5. 1 2 "news.com.au Website Analysis for January 2025". Similarweb. January 2025. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  6. ↑ Burton-Bradley, Robert (11 February 2015). "News site audiences dive but News.com.au increases lead at the top of online ratings in January". Mumbrella. Retrieved 18 January 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  7. ↑ Kelly, Vivienne (4 June 2020). "News.com.au tumbles to sixth in ranking of Australia's most popular websites, as ABC maintains lead". Mumbrella. Retrieved 24 June 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  8. ↑ Jolly, Nathan (22 November 2024). "Readers flee from The Guardian, Herald, Daily Mail, and news.com.au". Mumbrella. Retrieved 13 February 2025.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)