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''The Sunday Times'', owned by News Corp Australia, is a tabloid Sunday newspaper printed in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia. ==History== Established by Frederick Vosper in the 1890s, ''The Sunday Times'' became a vehicle for the harassment of C. Y. O'Connor and the proposed Goldfields Water Supply Scheme in the late 1890s until O'Connor's death by suicide in 1902. A subsequent government inquiry found no justification for Vosper's campaign against O'Connor. The paper was purchased from Vosper's estate by James MacCallum Smith and Arthur Reid in 1901. In 1912 MacCallum Smith became sole proprietor and managing director, remaining in that role until 1935, as well as being a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for 20 years. A. T. Chandler succeeded J. E. Webb as editor around 1920, and was an effective promoter of MacCallum Smith's secessionist views. In 1935, a syndicate led by Jack Simons and including Victor Courtney and mining entrepreneur Claude de Bernales purchased Western Press Limited, the publisher of the paper, for £55,000. Simons was chairman and managing director until his death in 1949 when Courtney took control. In 1955 Courtney sold Western Press to Rupert Murdoch's News Limited. ===Current format and circulation=== To counter perceived decreasing demand for newspapers and competition from radio, television and internet news, ''The Sunday Times'' has made adaptations in style and presentation but remains a populist tabloid rather than a newspaper of record. Sunday monopoly status ensures statewide circulation for its extensive display- and classified-advertising content, making it probably the most profitable newspaper in Australia. The paper's stated audited circulation was 282,585 in 2011 and 257,330 in March 2013.〔 In June 2006, ''The Sunday Times'' launched ''PerthNow'', an online presentation of local news from News Limited.〔(PerthNow website )〕 According to third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, Perthnow.com.au, is the 192nd and 487th most visited website in Australia respectively, as of August 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=perthnow.com.au Site Overview )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Perthnow.com.au Analytics )〕 SimilarWeb rates the site as the 40th most visited news website in Australia, attracting almost 1.4 million visitors per month.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Top 50 sites in Australia for News And Media )〕 Recent editors have been Don Smith from 1987, Brian Crisp from 1999, Brett McCarthy from 2001, Sam Weir from June 2007 and Christopher Dore from April 2012. In June 2013 Rod Savage was announced as the paper's new editor. 〔http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/dore-to-edit-courier-mail-as-fagan-departs/story-e6frg996-1226662619390〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Sunday Times (Western Australia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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