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The Canberra Times
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Fairfax Media
Founded	1926
Headquarters	9 Pirie Street Fyshwick ACT
Official website	http://canberratimes.com.au/

The Canberra Times newspaper was founded in 1926 in Canberra, Australia by Arthur Shakespeare.

It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being The Federal Capital Pioneer. The paper was sold to the Fairfax group in the 1960s by Arthur Shakespeare on the condition that it continue to advocate for Canberra. It was later sold to Publishing and Broadcasting Limited, which in turn sold it to Kerry Stokes in 1989 for $110 million. Rural Press Limited bought the paper from Stokes in 1998 for $160 million. Rural Press Limited merged with Fairfax Media on 8 May 2007. The paper first went online on 31 March 1997.

Its current editor-at-large is Jack Waterford. Its most recent editor in chief, Peter Fray, left in January 2009 to edit The Sydney Morning Herald. His successor is Rod Quinn. Previous editors include Michelle Grattan (1993-95), the first female editor of a metropolitan daily newspaper in Australia.

[edit] Controversies

In 2008, The Canberra Times printed a formal apology^[1] after the paper published an essay in which Irfan Yusuf falsely accused American historian Daniel Pipes of suggesting that Muslims deserved to be slaughtered as Jews were during the Holocaust.^[2]^[3]

On 17 October 2008, The Canberra Times placed a large sticker advertising the ACT Labor Party on the front page. Complaints about the sticker prompted the General Manager, Ken Nichols, to issue an explanation for the sticker. ^[4]

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List of newspapers in Australia

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[edit] References

^ Apology to Daniel Pipes 13/09/2008, Canberra Times[1]
^ Irfan Yusuf, "Justice the remedy required to help Bosnia heal,", Canberra Times, August 18, 2008
^ Irfan Yusuf Apologizes to Daniel Pipes, September 17, 2008[2]
^ Sticker ads separate to editorial content, 17/10/2008, Canberra Times[3]

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[0] Apology to Daniel Pipes 13/09/2008, Canberra Times[1]

[1] Irfan Yusuf, "Justice the remedy required to help Bosnia heal,", Canberra Times, August 18, 2008

[2] Irfan Yusuf Apologizes to Daniel Pipes, September 17, 2008[2]

[3] Sticker ads separate to editorial content, 17/10/2008, Canberra Times[3]

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