News.com.au


News.com.au is an Australian website owned by News Corp Australia. It had 9.6 million readers in April 2019 and covers national and international news, lifestyle, travel, entertainment, technology, finance and sport.

Staff

The organisation employs about 80 journalists, among them Walkley award-winning journalist Samantha Maiden as national political editor, and Joe Hildebrand as a columnist.

Web analytics

According to third-party web analytics providers, Alexa Internet, news.com.au was the 12th most visited website in Australia in March 2022. On the web analytics platform Similarweb news.com.au was ranked the 12th most visited website in Australia in January 2025 and was ranked number one in news & media publishers in Australia. Similarweb also stated that the website attracted more than 74 million visitors in January 2025. Nielsen Online Ratings rated news.com.au as Australia's most popular news website as of January 2015.
Whilst frequently ranked as the number-one visited Australian news website in Australia during 2019; as of June 2020, news.com.au had slipped to the third most visited news website in Australia after ABC News Online and Daily Mail Australia.
In November 2024, news.com.au was shown to be the second most-read news media of any format in Australia from an Ipsos iris ranking.

Awards