The New Zealand Herald
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| The New Zealand Herald | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Australian Provincial Newspapers (APN) |
| Founded | 1863 |
| Headquarters | Auckland, New Zealand |
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| Website: nzherald.co.nz | |
- This article is about a newspaper. For the officer of arms, see New Zealand Herald of Arms Extraordinary.
The New Zealand Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand. It is owned by APN (Australian Provincial Newspapers). The Herald has a daily circulation of over 200,000 copies, giving it more than twice the circulation of any other daily paper.<ref name=circulation_copies> NPA statistics</ref> 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.<ref name=circulation_area>Herald circulation area</ref> The newspaper plans to extend its reach nationally.
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[edit] 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.
Gordon Minhinnick was a staff cartoonist from the 1930's until his retirement in the 1980's.
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.
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, and complements the Saturday broadsheet, the Weekend Herald.
The New Zealand Herald was traditionally seen as a staid, centre-right newspaper, and given the nickname "Granny Herald" into the 1990s. This has changed and today the Herald often draws content from left-leaning British newspapers such as The Independent and The Guardian, but it is not expressly sympathetic to any New Zealand political party and often shows editorial opposition to the centre-left government.
[edit] On the web
The online news service nzherald.co.nz (originally called the Herald Online) was established in 1998 and attracts over 1.5 million users per month. It is updated continuously. Editor: Jeremy Rees.
[edit] Regular columnists
- Colin James
- Matt McCarten, Herald on Sunday
- Deborah Coddington, Herald on Sunday
[edit] Malcolm Evans sacking
In August 2003, the paper dismissed cartoonist Malcolm Evans, whose cartoons often commented on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. One cartoon by Evans which some readers found offensive depicted the word "APARTHEID", spelled using a Star of David in place of the second "a", scrawled across the wall of a war-wracked neighborhood. The newspaper later said it regretted publishing the cartoon. Evans claims that the then editor-in-chief, Gavin Ellis, demanded he stop drawing about the conflict, an order that he refused, leading to his termination.<ref name=Evans>"Kiwi cartoonist sacked", The Australian, August 21 2003</ref> Ellis denies the allegation. These events happened in the same week the paper published a revisionist article by Canterbury University academic Doctor Fudge that Canterbury University had suppressed. It was also reported by the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz that at that time Ellis was interviewed by the Israeli ambassador to Australia.
[edit] Notes
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[edit] External links
- The New Zealand Herald — official websitemk:Новозеландски Хералд
