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Leading Companies & Markets.

Newspapers are dominated by News Limited and Fairfax Newspapers in metropolitan areas, The Leader and Cumberland Groups for suburban press, Rural Press for country papers. The most well known newspapers are:

• Sydney: The Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Telegraph are weekday morning papers, The Daily Mirror and The Sun are weekday evening papers, and The Sun Herald, The Sunday Telegraph and The Weekend Australian are weekend newspapers.
• Melbourne: The Age, The Herald Sun, and the Melbourne Leader are weekday papers, and the Sunday Herald Sun, Sunday Age and The Weekend Australian are weekend newspapers.
• Brisbane: The Courier-Mail is the weekday paper, and the Sunday Mail and The Weekend Australian are weekend papers.
• Darwin: The Northern Territory News and The Australian are weekday papers, and The Sunday Territorian and The Weekend Australian are weekend papers.
• Perth: The West Australian and The Australian are weekday papers, and The Sunday Times and The Weekend Australian are weekend papers. Adelaide: The Advertiser, Messenger Newspapers, and The Australian are weekday papers, and Sunday Mail and The Weekend Australian are weekend papers.
• Hobart: The Mercury and The Australia are weekday papers, and The Sunday Tasmanian and The Weekend Australian are weekend papers.
• Canberra: The Canberra Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Australian are weekday papers, and The Sunday Telegraph and the Weekend Australian are weekend papers.

Magazines are dominated by Australian Consolidated Press (ACP) with over 80 magazine titles across 15 interest categories including women’s lifestyle, sport, men’s health, home & leisure, money & business, and food wine and travel. Some of the better known magazines are:

• Women’s magazines: Women’s Weekly, New Idea and Women’s Day.
• Business: Business Review Weekly (BRW), TIME, and The Economist.
• Men’s magazines: Men’s Health, GQ, and Popular Science.
• Sport: Golf Digest, Inside Sport and Muscle & Fitness.
• Teenage: jmag, Dolly, and Girlfriend.

Environment & Culture of the workplace

You work indoors and outdoors. In the office, staff usually work in open plan areas, mostly in a fast paced environment that has deadlines to meet every day. Decisions need to be made at short notice and there is a culture of professionalism, speed and a sense of urgency. Persistence and hard work are valued.

In the past people felt they must avoid all mistakes, keep track of everything and work long hours to meet narrow objectives. The future is now outward-looking and responsive to market and technological changes. There are expectations of achievement at both the individual and the group level. Collaboration and coordination across departments is how good firms operate.