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The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd

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 evening 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.