A tabloid "news pictorial" from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia which was formed from the merger of the Sun and Herald newspapers in the early 1990s. The Herald Sun is part of the Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Limited empire, and consequently leans heavily to the right.

The Hun, as many have taken to calling it, contains a sensationalistic mix of the usual local, national and world news, as well as extensive opinion pages featuring columnists such as the rabid right-winger Andrew Bolt, the more moderate Steve Price and the boring but more liberal Jill Singer. Journalistic standards are as low as one would expect from such a tabloid and the Hun happily pushes its own agenda without much regard for accuracy or fair reporting. Frankly, it is a fascist rag.

The letters pages of the paper are certainly a highlight, and one can have a superior chuckle over the insane leaps in logic, the ignorant prejudices and the just plain confused people. The editorial cartoonist for the Herald-Sun is named Mark Knight. He is distictly unfunny, sometimes offensive, and lacking in artistic talent.

With over one million sales a day the Hun has thrice the readership of Melbourne's other local daily The Age, a broadsheet. In fact Rupert effectively has a monopoly over the reading habits of 80% of Melburnians, since the free daily MX is read by almost every PT communter and the supermarket magazines are very popular. The Sydney counterpart to the Herald Sun is the Daily Telegraph.

Has a website: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/.

Resident crazyman Andrew Bolt's pearls of wisdom are archived here: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/sectionindex1/0,5442,dhs_andrewbolt%5ETEXT%5Eheraldsun,00.html.

The Daily Newspaper for Durham, NC (broadsheet): moderate liberal bias with some rightist naysayers.

Created in 1991 after the merge of Durham's two newspapers, the Durham Morning Herald and the Durham Sun. The Morning Herald was the longest-running periodical in Durham, NC history, from 1901 to 1990 (although the paper had existed much, much earlier, noting the 1953 "Centennial" issue of the paper). The Durham Sun ran from 1947 to 1990, and in its later days rivaled the longtime most-popular Morning Herald in circulation, which instituted the Morning Herald to buy out the Sun and merge officially starting on January 1, 1991 to the Durham Herald-Sun, the only current newspaper originating in Durham, NC.

The Herald-Sun is now an established paper in North Carolina, standing alongside the Charlotte Observer, Raleigh News and Observer, and the Winston-Salem Journal as a strong force in the North Carolina media spotlight.

A good medium-sized newspaper, the Herald-Sun has all of the essential sections: National and State news, Metro, Business, Sports, Technology, Health and Medical, a respectable Comics section, and other sections that appear every week (Wheels, about cars, Religion, and an Entertainment secion every Friday giving new movie, album, and performance reviews. There's also a teen section, Under Construction, that comes out every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month).

The Herald-Sun has won numerous local awards, and its website (www.heraldsun.com) has won national awards for its extensive layout and coverage, pretty much making the entire paper available online at no charge. In 2001, the Herald Sun won the "Online Journalism Award" for an online feature about a doctor travelling to a third-world country; the paper beat out top-notch papers around the country with the story.

Even though the Herald Sun originated from a merger, something of a death knell for constructive journalism, the paper does quality work and offers the people of Durham, NC with reliable news and features.