The Canberra Times had the strongest-growing audience of Australia's major news brands in the latest audience survey and is now read by three quarters of Canberrans.
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According to Enhanced Media Metrics Australia (emma) figures released this week, total masthead readership of The Canberra Times in August grew to 826,000, up 17 per cent from the previous month.
The monthly survey of newspaper readership across print, online, mobile and tablet showed across all platforms The Canberra Times now reaches 74 per cent of Canberrans older than 14.
The Australian Financial Review, also published by Fairfax Media, had the next best growth month-on-month, rising 7 per cent, and the Adelaide Advertiser was up 6 per cent.
Year on year, the total Canberra Times audience grew by 7 per cent in August, behind only the AFR (up 11 per cent).
The August result is the second-biggest total monthly audience The Canberra Times has recorded since the emma measurement system began in June 2013.
Strong growth in digital traffic is more than offsetting gradual declines in print readership, with the masthead recording one of the strongest year-on-year growth rates for mobile audiences.
A total of 536,000 readers accessed canberratimes.com.au via their desktops and laptops in August, up 27 per cent from the previous month and 6 per cent up on August 2014.
The audience using smartphones to read the breaking-news site grew by 61 per cent year-on-year to 106,000, with the combined audience on mobiles and tablets up 38 per cent to 176,000.
The average net readership of print editions of The Canberra Times across the week through August was 161,000 people.
Overall, 73 per cent of the total Canberra Times audience is using digital channels exclusively, with 8 per cent using both print and digital.
Canberra group managing editor John-Paul Moloney said The Canberra Times newsroom was geared to deliver local, national and international news and information "when and how our audiences want it".
"Canberrans know where to turn first for quality journalism and breaking news," Mr Moloney said.
"As we showed again last month when local teenager Kathleen Bautista was found in bush near her crashed car six days after she was went missing, The Canberra Times brings you the news online as it happens and sets the agenda in print every day."
