The West Australian

What The West Australian does

The input dataset labeled "The West Australian" is extremely thin and partially contradictory. The firmographics record a company named "The West Australian" with 13 employees, located in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia, with a website_url pointing to news.yahoo.com.au — a generic Yahoo News Australia aggregator rather than the first-party West Australian masthead (thewest.com.au). All structured financial and corporate fields are empty: no revenue figure, no founded date, no legal entity name, no company type, no parent company, no operating status, no management team, no products or services, no technology stack, no pricing model, no customers, no partnerships, no funding rounds, no M&A, no regulatory actions, and no leadership changes are disclosed. The scraped page content consists solely of Yahoo News Australia's homepage, comprising Australian general-interest news headlines across categories (news, sport, NRL, AFL, tennis, cricket, football) and Australian states/territories, none of which reference The West Australian newspaper as an entity. The data gap is severe: the input does not support a first-party product, revenue mechanism, technology, or strategic narrative for The West Australian, and the firmographic record appears to have captured a third-party aggregator URL rather than the company's own commercial surface.

Name

The West Australian

Website

https://news.yahoo.com.au

Company type

Private

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The West Australian is recorded in the input as a 13-employee entity based in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia, with a website URL resolving to Yahoo News Australia; no products, revenue, ownership, or operating details are disclosed in the source data.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Newspaper Publishing

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110), Periodical Publishers (513120)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Local & Regional Newspapers (Print & Digital) (MPAJADAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

News, Politics & Current Affairs Magazines (MPAJAEAO)

Keywords

• Newspaper publishing
• News media
• Digital journalism
• News content
• Regional news

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

The West Australian is an Australian news publication that produces and distributes news content through a digital news platform. The platform publishes categorized news articles across Australian national news, world news, politics, environment, and sport, supplemented by state-specific regional coverage for NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, ACT, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory. Content is sourced in part from the Australian Associated Press wire service and delivered to Australian consumers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Digital News Platform Online news website publishing categorized articles for Australian consumers across national news, world news, politics, environment, and sport, with state-specific regional coverage for NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, ACT, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory, and dedicated sport verticals for NRL, AFL, Tennis, Cricket, Football, and the World Cup.
• Sport News Section Sport-focused news coverage within the digital news platform, providing dedicated reporting and results for NRL, AFL, Tennis, Cricket, Football, and the World Cup, targeted at Australian sports followers.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• The Guardian Australia: Digital-first national masthead with strong Australian politics, environment and sport coverage. Comparable as a subscription- and advertising-supported national news competitor.
• news.com.au: News Corp Australia's national digital aggregator. Comparable as a multi-vertical national news platform competing for Australian digital news advertising inventory.
• ABC News (Australia): Public broadcaster covering all Australian states and territories. Comparable as a national digital news destination with similar vertical coverage (politics, environment, sport) competing for the same reader attention.
• 9news.com.au: Nine's national digital news platform. Comparable as a competitor for breaking news audiences, particularly across state-level verticals similar to those covered in the source content.
• The Age: Nine's Melbourne-based masthead. Comparable as a legacy metropolitan/regional news brand with parallel subscription, sport and breaking-news verticals.
• The Australian: News Corp Australia's national masthead. Comparable as a legacy Australian newspaper brand migrating to digital, competing for national news advertising and subscription dollars against The West Australian.
• Sydney Morning Herald: Nine Entertainment's flagship metro masthead. Comparable in operating model (print + digital newsroom, subscription + advertising revenue mix) and as a direct competitor for national advertiser spend and digital news audiences.

Direct peers

• PerthNow: Seven West Media's Perth-focused digital news property. The closest direct competitor to The West Australian in the WA market, covering overlapping news, sport and lifestyle verticals for the same local audience.
• Yahoo News Australia: The platform whose domain anchors the source record. Operates a directly overlapping Australian news aggregation + editorial model and is effectively the distribution host in this dataset.

Regional players

• SBS News: Australian public broadcaster with national digital news coverage. Comparable as an alternative national digital news destination, particularly for multicultural and regional audiences relevant to a WA masthead.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-west-australian

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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