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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Compact(weekdays and Sundays) Broadsheet(Saturdays) |
| Owner | NZME |
| Editor-in-chief | Murray Kirkness[1] |
| Editor | Murray Kirkness (weekday)[2] |
| Founded | 1863; 162 years ago (1863) (by William Chisholm Wilson) |
| Headquarters | Auckland |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Circulation | 100,073 (as of 30 September 2019)[3] |
| ISSN | 1170-0777 |
| OCLC number | 11123090 |
| Website | nzherald.co.nz |
The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published inAuckland, New Zealand, owned byNew Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered anewspaper of record for New Zealand.[4]
It has the largestnewspaper circulation in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the dailyHerald had declined to 100,073 copies on average by September 2019.[3]
TheHerald's publications include a daily paper; theWeekend Herald, a weekly Saturday paper; and theHerald on Sunday, which has 365,000 readers nationwide.[5] TheHerald on Sunday is the most widely read Sunday paper in New Zealand.[5]
The paper's website, nzherald.co.nz, is viewed 2.2 million times a week[5] and was named Voyager Media Awards' News Website of the Year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.[6] In 2023, theWeekend Herald was awarded Weekly Newspaper of the Year and the publication's mobile application was the News App of the Year.[6]
Its main circulation area is theAuckland region. It is also delivered to much of theNorth Island, includingNorthland,Waikato,King Country,Hawke's Bay,Bay of Plenty,Manawatū-Whanganui, andWellington.[7][8]
The New Zealand Herald was founded by William Chisholm Wilson, and first published on 13 November 1863. Wilson had been a partner withJohn Williamson in theNew Zealander, but left to start a rival daily newspaper as he saw a business opportunity with Auckland's rapidly growing population.[9] He had also split with Williamson because Wilson supported thewar against the Māori (which theHerald termed "the native rebellion") while Williamson opposed it.[10] TheHerald also promoted a more constructive relationship between the North and South Islands.[10]
After theNew Zealander closed in 1866,The Daily Southern Cross provided competition, particularly afterJulius Vogel took a majority shareholding in 1868. First published asThe Southern Cross (withoutdaily in its title) in 1843 byWilliam Brown, it became a daily publication in 1862, with its name modified toThe Daily Southern Cross. Vogel sold out of the paper in 1873 andAlfred Horton bought it in 1876.[9]
In 1876 the Wilson family and Horton joined in partnership andThe New Zealand Herald absorbedThe Daily Southern Cross.[9][11]
In 1879 the United Press Association was formed so that the main daily papers could share news stories. The organisation became theNew Zealand Press Association (NZPA) in 1942.[12] In 1892, theNew Zealand Herald,Otago Daily Times, andPress agreed to share the costs of a London correspondent and advertising salesman.[12] The NZPA closed in 2011.[13]
The Wilson and Horton families were both represented in the company, known as Wilson & Horton, until 1996 whenTony O'Reilly'sIndependent News & Media Group ofDublin purchased the Horton family's interest in the company. At some point, the company was purchased by APN NZ, a New Zealand subsidiary ofAPN News & Media.[citation needed] In April 2007, APN NZ announced it was outsourcing the bulk of theHerald'scopy editing to an Australian-owned company, Pagemasters.The Herald is now owned byNew Zealand Media and Entertainment, formed in 2014. That company was owned bySydney-basedAPN News & Media and the Radio Network, formerly owned by theAustralian Radio Network.
In November 2012, two months after the launch of its new compact format, APN News and Media announced it would be restructuring its workforce, cutting eight senior roles from across theHerald's range of titles.[14]
On 10 September 2012, the Herald moved to acompact format for weekday editions, after 150 years publishing inbroadsheet format. The broadsheet format was retained for theWeekend Herald.[18]
The Herald is traditionally acentre-right newspaper and was given the nickname "Granny Herald" into the 1990s.[10]
In 1998 theWeekend Herald was set up as a separate title and the newspaper's website was launched.[19]
A compact-sized Sunday edition, theHerald on Sunday, was first published on 3 October 2004 under the editorship ofSuzanne Chetwin and then, for five years, byShayne Currie. It won Newspaper of the Year for the calendar years 2007 and 2009 and is New Zealand's most-read Sunday newspaper. In 2010, theHerald on Sunday started a campaign to reduce the legalblood alcohol limit for driving in New Zealand, called the "Two Drinks Max" campaign. The paper set up a campaignFacebook page, aTwitter account, and encouraged readers to sign up to the campaign on its own website.[20] It is currently edited byAlanah Eriksen.[21]
The newspaper's online news service, originally calledHerald Online, was established in 1998. It was redesigned in late 2006, and again in 2012. The site was named best news website at the 2007 and 2008Qantas Media Awards, won the "best re-designed website" category at the 2007 New ZealandNetGuide Awards, and was one of seven newspaper sites named an Official Honouree in the 2007Webby Awards.[22] Apaywall was added for "premium content" starting on 29 April 2019.[23]
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In July 2014, theHerald published a front-page story about the death of Guy Boyland, a New Zealand-born soldier killed inGaza. The paper pulled a photograph of the television starRyan Dunn, killed in 2011, from Boyland's Facebook page, erroneously claiming it was of Boyland. When theHerald's mistake was revealed, the paper issued apologies to Boyland's family, his friends, and the paper's readers.[27] In a 2016 study by Philippa K. Smith and Helen Sissons, the authors said the mistake was caused by "a series of lapses in the newsroom". They concluded that the incident caused damage to theHerald's reputation, which it tried to repair by apologising. TheHerald promised to reform its newsroom processes.[28]
In July 2015, theNew Zealand Press Council ruled thatHerald columnist Rachel Glucina had failed to properly represent herself as a journalist when seeking comment from Amanda Bailey on a complaint she had made about Prime MinisterJohn Key repeatedly pulling her hair when he was a customer at the cafe in which she worked. TheHerald published Bailey's name, photo, and comments after she had retracted permission for Glucina to do so. The council said there was an "element of subterfuge" in Glucina's actions and that there was not enough public interest to justify her behaviour. In its ruling the council said that "TheNZ Herald has fallen sadly short of those standards in this case." TheHerald's editor denied the accusations of subterfuge. Glucina subsequently resigned from the newspaper.[29]
In 2020, theNew Zealand Herald ran inserts provided by thePeople's Daily, the official mouthpiece of theCentral Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, pushingChinese state disinformation about COVID-19.[30] The newspaper subsequently deleted the story from its website.[30]
On 7 August 2024, lobby groupHobson's Pledge published a full-page advertisement inThe New Zealand Herald calling for the "restoration of theforeshore and seabed to public ownership." The advertisement drew criticism fromTe Pāti Māori, who responded they would be cease engaging withThe Herald until the newspaper and its ownersNZME issued a public apology and amended their publishing standards.[31]
This builds on our partnership with theNew Zealand Herald getting the newspaper of record microfilmed and digitised ...
We comprehensively study the coverage of the outbreak on the internet website of a newspaper of record in each [country]. ... the websites of theNew York Times,New Zealand Herald, and theGlobe and Mail ...
On Feb. 22,People's Daily ran a report highlighting speculation that the U.S. military brought the virus to China, pushing the story globally through inserts in newspapers such as theHelsinki Times in Finland and theNew Zealand Herald.The New Zealand Herald said it has an 'ad hoc commercial relationship withPeople's Daily', labels their content as sponsored and reviews it before publication. 'Upon further review of the story that you have referred to, we have removed this particular item from our website', a spokesman said in an email.
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