# What are the major newspapers for various large countries? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 22, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-major-newspapers-for-various-large-countries/225570 "2004-01-22T03:47:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mecaenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@mecaenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mecaenas)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-major-newspapers-for-various-large-countries/225570/21 "2004-01-22T09:03:20Z")
In Australia: [The Australian](http://www.theaustralian.com.au/), [The Sydney Morning Herald](http://www.smh.com.au/) ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-major-newspapers-for-various-large-countries/225570/22 "2004-01-22T09:20:02Z")
> [@mecaenas](#): > > In Australia: [The Australian](http://www.theaustralian.com.au/), [The Sydney Morning Herald](http://www.smh.com.au/) Does the SMH have a significant readership outside of New South Wales? It’s certainly no national newpaper. I’d add the [Financial Review](http://afr.com/). It’s a business rag, sure, but it’s read nationwide. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Sarang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jack\_Sarang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Sarang)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-major-newspapers-for-various-large-countries/225570/23 "2004-01-22T09:28:34Z")
For South Korea: The most respected Korean-language paper is the Chosun Ilbo. They don’t offer an english-language paper version but they do a digital version: [http://english.chosun.com/](http://english.chosun.com/) Although, its important to note that the english-language articles often differ in content than the Korean language ones. There are two english-language papers in South Korea, but they’re widely considered to be rags (by ex-pats who read them). They are the [Korea Times](http://www.koreatimes.co.kr) and the [Korea Herald](http://www.koreaherald.co.kr). ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-major-newspapers-for-various-large-countries/225570/24 "2004-01-22T10:38:44Z")
> [@Jervoise](#): > > Does the SMH have a significant readership outside of New South Wales? It’s certainly no national newpaper. You’re correct there. However, The Age is the Victorian equivalent of the SMH. National and international coverage in the two is the same. They differ in state coverage. The papers in Australia break down like this: **Fairfax owned** : The Australian Financial Review (National) The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW) The Age (Vic) **Murdoch owned** : The Australian (National) The Daily Telegraph (NSW) Herald-Sun (Vic) The Courier Mail (Qld) The Advertiser (SA) The Mercury (Tas) Northern Territory News (NT) **Other** The West Australian (WA) So there are two national newspapers, both of reasonably high quality. The coverage of the AFR is more narrow than any of the other Australian newspapers, however. As far as state papers go, the Fairfax papers are very similar to each other, and the Murdoch papers are all fairly similar to each other. The Fairfax ones are in broadsheet format rather than tabloid, and the biases in the Fairfax papers are slightly different to those in the Murdoch papers, but they’re all of comparable quality. The West Australian is still independent of Fairfax and Murdoch, but is still very similar to the other papers. It’s sort of a cross between The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-major-newspapers-for-various-large-countries/225570/25 "2004-01-22T11:20:09Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > Just to add that there are some other papers with a large readership in France ( France-Soir, Le Parisien, etc…) but which are popular papers and not considered as references in any way, nor particulary "respected’ (though I suppose they could be “influential” in their own ways). I suspect that’s true in most countries. It certainly is in the UK, where trashy rags like the Sun, the Mirror and the News of the World are the biggest sellers. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-major-newspapers-for-various-large-countries/225570/26 "2004-01-22T12:01:34Z")
> [@Desmostylus](#): > > You’re correct there. However, The Age is the Victorian equivalent of the SMH. National and international coverage in the two is the same. They differ in state coverage. Ah, thanks. I guess that explains why their websites also have mirrored content. Incidentally, News Ltd has a toehold in WA via ownership of the [Sunday Times](http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/)–a hideous tabloid that thankfully only blights each week but once. ---
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[Here](http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/)is a good start … ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-major-newspapers-for-various-large-countries/225570/28 "2004-01-22T14:55:22Z")
> [@](#): > > _ **jovan** said:_ > For Canada, you need to add the National Post. Kind of right-leaning, pan-Canadian distribution. In French, the most read paper is the Journal de Montréal. It’s a lot like the New York Post. Mostly blood’n sports. There is also Le Devoir, very distant third in readership after JdM and La Presse, but highly respected amongst intellectuals. Kind of to the left… “Kind of” right wing? The National Post is, in Canadian terms, very right-wing, very similar to the tabloid Toronto Sun, but without the ‘beer, crime, sports & tits’ focus of the Sun. The National Post was only founded about five years ago, and it has been making a determined effort to become the national English-language “paper of record”. Since that niche is already occupied by the Globe and Mail, it’s been a tough slog, and of the four large English-language dailies in Toronto, it has the lowest readership. ---
**Author:** ![glas\_onion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9dc877/32.png) [@glas\_onion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glas_onion)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-major-newspapers-for-various-large-countries/225570/29 "2004-01-22T15:10:13Z")
We have two \*\*main \*\* Broadsheets [The Irish Times](http://www.ireland.com) and [The Irish Independent](http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/) Another one is [The Irish Examiner](http://www.irishexaminer.com) but it is a bit Regional, focusing on the Southwest of the country, and related issues. We do get “Irish” edidtions of the main UK Tabloids, such as The Daily Mirror and The Sun, but they are re-hashed versions of the UK edidions, so you won’t get an “Irish” viewpoint. There is one other Tabloid I should mention, in the interest of variation. [The Irish Daily Star](http://www.thestar.ie/) They claim to be Irish, but I suspect they get more than a little help from their UK counterpart. Hope I helped. ---
**Author:** ![glas\_onion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9dc877/32.png) [@glas\_onion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glas_onion)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-major-newspapers-for-various-large-countries/225570/30 "2004-01-22T15:13:30Z")
I only just noticed the OP asked _What are the major newspapers for various **large** countries?_ Somehow I don’t think Ireland qualifies as a large Country… Sorry :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-major-newspapers-for-various-large-countries/225570.md?page=1)