The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	APN News & Media
Editor	Tim Murphy
Founded	1863
Headquarters	Auckland, New Zealand
Website: nzherald.co.nz

Front cover of the Auckland edition, Friday 2 June, 2006.

The New Zealand Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand. It is owned by APN News & Media. The Herald has a daily circulation of about 200,000 copies, giving it more than twice the circulation of any other daily paper in New Zealand.^[1] Despite the name, its main circulation area is the greater Auckland region area. It is also delivered to much of the top half of the North Island including Northland, Waikato and King Country.^[2]

History

The Herald was founded in 1863 by William Chisholm Wilson and published its first edition on November 13 of that year. In 1876, The New Zealand Herald was merged with the newspaper The Southern Cross owned by Alfred Horton. The Southern Cross was first published in 1843.

The Wilson and Horton families were both represented in the company until 1996 when Sir Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media Group of Dublin purchased the Horton family's interest in the company. The Herald is now owned by APN (Australian Provincial Newspapers) which is, in turn, majority-owned by Independent News & Media.

Gordon Minhinnick was a staff cartoonist from the 1930's until his retirement in the 1980s.

A tabloid-sized Sunday edition, the Herald on Sunday, was first published on October 3 2004 under the editorship of Suzanne Chetwin. Now edited by Shayne Currie, it is New Zealand's third-highest circulating paper.

The New Zealand Herald was traditionally seen as a staid, centre-right newspaper, and given the nickname "Granny Herald" into the 1990s. This changed with the acquision of the paper by Independent News & Media in 1996, and today the Herald is editorially left-leaning on international geopolitics, diplomacy, and military matters, sharing stands with left-leaning British newspapers such as The Independent and The Observer, while remaining free enterprise oriented on certain economic matters such as trade and foreign investments. On domestic matters it leans moderately libertarian, opposing socially conservative values while supporting self-reliance on social welfare, government fiscal restraint, and reducing the government's role in the New Zealand economy, and often shows editorial opposition to centre-left political parties.

In March 2007 APN NZ announced it was considering a plan to outsource the bulk of the Herald's copy editing to an Australian-owned company, Pagemasters. APN confirmed the outsourcing decision to affected staff on April 19, 2007.

Website

The online news service 'nzherald.co.nz' (originally called Herald Online) was established in 1998 and attracts over 1.5 million users per month.^{[citation needed]} It was redesigned in late 2006.

The site was named best news website at the 2007 Qantas Media Awards, won the "best re-designed website" category at the 2007 New Zealand NetGuide Awards and was one of seven newspaper sites named an Official Honoree in the 2007 Webby Awards (of the more than 8,000 entries submitted for the Webby Awards, fewer than 15% were distinguished as an Official Honoree).^[3]

Regular columnists

• Colin James
• Brian Rudman
• Matt McCarten, Herald on Sunday
• Deborah Coddington, Herald on Sunday

Notes

External links

• The New Zealand Herald — official website

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