The Sydney Morning Herald marks 190 years of publishing

The Sydney Morning Herald celebrates 190 years since its first publication in 1831 making it one of the oldest continuously printed newspapers in the world.

In last week’s Mumbrellacast, editor Lisa Davies said: “it’s a pretty big deal worth celebrating, so we plan to.”
The Sydney masthead, first published on 18 April 1831, will commemorate the anniversary with a souvenir wrap around on today’s edition, showing how the Herald has ‘forged a lifelong trust with generations of Sydneysiders with its quality journalism and unique lens on reporting the life and times of the Emerald City’.

With the business now primarily driven by a growing subscription base, Davies said: “I don’t feel like we’ve been in a stronger position in the last few years. We’ve got an incredibly strong subscriber business, we’ve never been read by more people in our history, more than nine million readers each month and the Herald has the largest readership across print and online in the country.”