| Type: | News site |
| Format: | Online |
| Owners: | Nine Entertainment Co. |
| Editor: | Sean Parnell |
| Foundation: | 7 March 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Headquarters: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Brisbane Times is an online newspaper for Brisbane and Queensland, Australia.
The Brisbane Times was launched on 7 March 2007[1] by then-Queensland Premier Peter Beattie.[2] The publication started with 14 journalists in an attempt by Fairfax to break into the South East Queensland market, competing against the website of News Corporation's incumbent The Courier-Mail.
As of 20 November 2018, Brisbane Times has started a subscription model. Viewers are limited to approximately 25 article views per month before being faced with a news paywall.
It is owned and run by Nine Publishing, publishers of Melbourne's The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and other mastheads, plus subject-focused websites and business-centered magazine titles. The founding managing editor was Mitchell Murphy;[3] the current editor is Sean Parnell.
According to third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, the Brisbane Times is the 191st and 250th most visited website in Australia respectively, as of August 2015.[4] [5] SimilarWeb rates the site as the 24th most visited news website in Australia, attracting more than 2 million visitors per month.[6]