The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd - Definition and Overview

The old Herald and Weekly Times building in Flinders St., Melbourne

The Herald and Weekly Times Limited is a newspaper company in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia that is owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

The Herald and Weekly Times Limited currently publish the morning tabloid daily The Herald Sun, which was created in 1990 from a merger of the company's morning tabloid paper The Sun News-Pictorial with its afternoon broadsheet paper The Herald which had been published as separate papers since 1840 (The Herald) and 1922 (The Sun News-Pictorial) respectively. The HWT also publish the rural Weekly Times which is aimed at farmers and rural businessmen.

See also: HSV-7, 3DB