What is The Age?
{{italictitle}} [[File:The Age first edition, Melbourne Museum.jpg|thumb|The first edition of ''The Age'']] '''''The Age''''' is a [[newspaper]] made in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21123919-421,00.html|title=Fairfax CEO considered selling The Age, SMH|work=[[The Australian]]|author=Paddy Manning|date=27 January 2007|accessdate=2008-07-07}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> It is owned by an Australian company called [[Nine Entertainment Co.|Nine]], and its first edition was on [[17 October]] [[1854]].<ref name=about>{{cite news|url=http://about.theage.com.au/about.asp|title=About The Age|newspaper=The Age|accessdate=2008-07-07|archive-date=2003-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030117065235/http://www.about.theage.com.au/about.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> The newspaper was first made by John and Henry Cooke. They also had a [[merchant]] business called Francis Cooke and Co.. They said they would use the newspaper to help [[mining|miners]] in the Australian [[Gold Rush]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://150.theage.com.au/story.asp |title=The Story of The Age |newspaper=The Age |accessdate=2008-07-07 |archive-date=2010-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113084055/http://150.theage.com.au/story.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> The newspaper has become very popular since then. According to its [[website]], it gets up to 957,000 on [[Saturday]]s.<ref name=about /> The [[editor]], Andrew Jaspan, who got the job in 2004,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fxj.com.au/announcements/jul04/Age-JaspanApptmt-JUL04.pdf|title=Andrew Jaspan appointed editor in chief of The Age|publisher=Fairfax|date=22 July 2004|accessdate=2008-07-07|archive-date=2008-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723073138/http://fxj.com.au/announcements/jul04/Age-JaspanApptmt-JUL04.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> got in trouble in 2008 when ''The Age'' [[journalist]]s agreed that he had been making it hard f