The Saturday Paper


The Saturday Paper is an Australian weekly newspaper, first published on 1 March 2014. It is notable for being launched in hard copy, as an online newspaper and in mobile news format. The paper is circulated throughout Australian capital cities and major regional centres. Since its launch The Saturday Paper has maintained a focus on long-form journalism and in-depth coverage of current affairs, arts and Australian politics.

Publication

The Saturday Paper is published by Morry Schwartz via Schwartz Media, which also publishes books via Black Inc, the magazine The Monthly and the Quarterly Essay. Upon its launch Schwartz stated he expected The Saturday Paper to be profitable within several years, and the paper should sell "between 60,000 and 80,000 copies a week".

Editors

Author Erik Jensen was the paper’s editor from its founding until June 2018, when Vice Media features editor Maddison Connaughton was appointed to the position. Jensen became the paper’s editor-in-chief. He was the paper's representative on the judging panel for the annual Horne Prize since its inception in 2016, being replaced by Connaughton in 2019.

Contributors

Weekly contributors include journalists Paul Bongiorno, Karen Middleton, Mungo MacCallum, Martin McKenzie-Murray, Mike Seccombe and cartoonist Geoff Pryor.
Other contributors include authors Behrouz Boochani, Fiona McGregor, David Marr, Christos Tsiolkas, Margaret Simons, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Richard Flanagan and Helen Razer as well as television presenter Leigh Sales, journalists Clem Bastow, Nakkiah Lui and Michael West, ex-Federal MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, artist Patrick Hartigan and musicians Dave Faulkner and Robert Forster.