The Sunday Times stays the fastest-growing weekend newspaper within the nation, in accordance with new readership figures.
The newest Roy Morgan figures present The Sunday Times elevated its readership by 52,000 readers previously yr to 418,000 — an unimaginable enhance of 14.2 per cent.
Its flagship shiny journal STM additionally elevated its readership by 8.2 per cent.
The Sunday Times now has extra readers than Melbourne’s The Sunday Age and is just marginally behind Sydney’s The Sun-Herald, whose readership declined 6.4 per cent.
The enhance in readers was loved throughout all West Australian Newspapers manufacturers, with Saturday’s version of The West Australian rising 3.2 per cent year-on-year, and the weekday version of the day by day newspaper up 1.8 per cent for the quarter.
WAN’s cross-platform attain throughout its newspapers and web sites is an astonishing 3.8 million readers each month, with 73.8 per cent of West Aussies studying each month.
That is by far the largest penetration of any news model in any State in Australia.
Weekend Editor Ben McClellan mentioned the readerships outcomes had been a testomony to the onerous work of the newsroom.
“We’re very proud of the scoops we report week-in and week-out by the likes of Joe Spagnolo and John Flint,” he mentioned.
“But we’re equally as proud of the extensive features we now run and the changes we made to ensure our readers are getting the right mix on the weekend — from our extensive world news section to our specialist gardening columns.”
McClellan mentioned the current addition of a weekend actual property column profiling the three hottest properties in the marketplace, known as Buy Buy Home, had been an enormous success.
He additionally praised STM, saying it was “easily the best glossy magazine of any Sunday newspaper in the country” and had a proud historical past of delivering award-winning content material.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
