- The Canberra Times
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name = The Canberra Times
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type = Dailynewspaper
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foundation =1926
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owners =Rural Press Limited
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editor = Peter Fray
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headquarters = 9 Pirie Street Fyshwick ACT
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website = http://canberratimes.com.au/"The Canberra Times"
newspaper was founded in1926 inCanberra ,Australia byArthur 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 toPublishing and Broadcasting Limited , which in turn sold it toKerry Stokes in1989 for $110 million.Rural Press Limited bought the paper from Stokes in1998 for $160 million.Rural Press Limited merged withFairfax Media on8 May 2007 . The paper first wentonline on31 March 1997 .Its current editor-at-large is
Jack Waterford . The editor in chief is Peter Fray, formerly of The Age newspaper. Previous editors includeMichelle Grattan (1993-95), the first female editor of a metropolitan daily newspaper in Australia.Controversies
In 2008,
Canberra Times printed a formal apology [Apology to Daniel Pipes13/09/2008, Canberra Times [http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/apology-to-daniel-pipes/1275090.aspx] ] after the paper published an essay in whichIrfan Yusuf falsely accused American historianDaniel Pipes of suggestiong that Muslims deserved to be slaughtered as Jews were during theHolocaust . [Irfan Yusuf, "Justice the remedy required to help Bosnia heal,", Canberra Times, August 18, 2008] [Irfan Yusuf Apologizes to Daniel Pipes, September 17, 2008 [http://www.meforum.org/press/1983] ]See also
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List of newspapers in Australia External Links
* [http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au Digitised historic Canberra Times from the National Library of Australia]
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