The Star (South Africa)

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The Star
The Star Newspaper.jpg
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Independent News and Media SA
PublisherSekunjalo Independent Media
EditorJaphet Mathanda Ncube
Founded6 January 1887;137 years ago (1887-01-06)
Headquarters47 Pixley Seme Street, Johannesburg
Website www.iol.co.za/the-star/

The Star is a daily newspaper based in Gauteng, South Africa. The paper is distributed mainly in Gauteng and other provinces such as Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West, and Free State.

Contents

The Star is one of the titles of the South African Independent News & Media group (INL), owned by Sekunjalo Media Consortium whose founder and chairman is Dr. Iqbal Survé. For many years, The Star was owned by the Argus Printing & Publishing Company, controlled by the Anglo American Corporation. [1] The Irish Independent News & Media (INM) bought and renamed the Argus in the early 1990s. [2] Sekujalo acquired INL in 2013. [3]

Content

The content published in The Star focuses on leading daily national, local and international national news and analysis. Its leader and opinion page offers a platform for thought leaders to contribute their opinions on topical news.

Products

The Star houses the Business Report newspaper (a widely-read financial newspaper in South Africa), as well as a carrier for the following supplements:

Awards

Newspaper Journalism Awards 2012

Notable stories

The Bang-Bang Club

The Star newspaper employed three members of the Bang-Bang Club. It employed Kevin Carter as a staff photographer in 1984. Ken Oosterbroek worked for the paper before being appointed its chief photographer in August 1991. João Silva was hired shortly afterwards.

History

The Star newspaper appeared for the first time in Johannesburg as The Eastern Star. It was founded in Grahamstown under that title on 6 January 1871 (as a resurrection of the previous Great Eastern paper), and was moved to the Witwatersrand sixteen years later by its owners, brothers Thomas and George Sheffield. In 1889, the name Eastern Star was changed to the one currently in use. [4]

Supplements

Distribution areas

Distribution [5]
20082013
Eastern CapeY
Free StateYY
GautengYY
Kwa-Zulu NatalY
LimpopoYY
MpumalangaYY
North WestYY
Northern CapeYY
Western CapeY

Distribution figures

Circulation [6]
Paid circulationTotal circulation
Oct - Dec 20238 90017 834 [7]
Jul - Sep 20239 13718 229 [8]
Apr - Jun 202311 71624 078 [9]
Jan - Mar 202312 43625 596 [10]
Jul - Sep 202214 13927 563 [11]
Jan - Mar 202227 984 [12]
Oct - Dec 202127 417 [13]
Jul - Sep 202125 769 [14]
Apr - Jun 202127 823 [15]
Jan - Mar 202033 12857 019 [16]
Jan - Mar 201972 010 [17]
Jan - Mar 201875 836 [18]
Jan - Mar 201784 857 [19]
Jan - Mar 201686 833 [20]
Jan - Mar 201591 735 [21]
Jan - Mar 2014101 711 [21]
Oct - Dec 2012102 244
Jul - Sep 2012105 686
Apr - Jun 2012117 874
Jan - Mar 2012124 641

Readership figures

Estimated Readership [22] [23]
AIR
January – December 2012615 000
July 2011 - June 2012683 000

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