Daily newspaper
The New Zealand Herald
is a daily newspaper published in
Auckland
, New Zealand, owned by
New Zealand Media and Entertainment
, and considered a
newspaper of record
for New Zealand.
[4]
It has the largest
newspaper circulation
in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the daily
Herald
had declined to 100,073 copies on average by September 2019.
[3]
The
Herald
'
s publications include a daily paper; the
Weekend Herald
, a weekly Saturday paper; and the
Herald on Sunday
, which has 365,000 readers nationwide.
[5]
The
Herald 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, the
Weekend 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 the
Auckland region
. It is also delivered to much of the
North Island
, including
Northland
,
Waikato
,
King Country
, Hawke's Bay, Bay of Plenty, Manawat?, and Wellington.
[7]
[8]
History
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The New Zealand Herald
was founded by William Chisholm Wilson, and first published on 13 November 1863. Wilson had been a partner with
John Williamson
in the
New 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 the
war against the M?ori
(which the
Herald
termed "the native rebellion") while Williamson opposed it.
[10]
The
Herald
also promoted a more constructive relationship between the North and South Islands.
[10]
After the
New Zealander
closed in 1866,
The Daily Southern Cross
provided competition, particularly after
Julius Vogel
took a majority shareholding in 1868. First published as
The Southern Cross
(without
daily
in its title) in 1843 by
William Brown
, it became a daily publication in 1862, with its name modified to
The Daily Southern Cross
. Vogel sold out of the paper in 1873 and
Alfred Horton
bought it in 1876.
[9]
In 1876 the Wilson family and Horton joined in partnership and
The New Zealand Herald
absorbed
The 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 the
New Zealand Press Association
(NZPA) in 1942.
[12]
In 1892, the
New Zealand Herald
,
Otago Daily Times
, and
Press
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 when
Tony O'Reilly
's
Independent News & Media Group
of
Dublin
purchased the Horton family's interest in the company. At some point, the company was purchased by APN NZ, a New Zealand subsidiary of
APN News & Media
.
[
citation needed
]
In April 2007, APN NZ announced it was outsourcing the bulk of the
Herald
'
s
copy editing
to an Australian-owned company, Pagemasters.
The Herald
is now owned by
New Zealand Media and Entertainment
, formed in 2014. That company was owned by
Sydney
-based
APN News & Media
and the Radio Network, formerly owned by the
Australian 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 the
Herald
'
s range of titles.
[14]
Notable contributors
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- Dita de Boni was a columnist for the newspaper, writing her first columns for the NZ Herald in 1995. From 2012 to 2015 she wrote a business and politics column until ? after a series of articles increasingly critical of the Key government ? the
Herald
discontinued her column for financial reasons.
[15]
- Gordon Minhinnick
was a staff cartoonist from the 1930s until his retirement in the 1980s.
- Malcolm Evans
was dismissed from his position as staff cartoonist in 2003 after the newspaper received complaints about his cartoons on the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
[16]
- Laurence Clark
was the daily political cartoonist from 1987 to 1996 and continued to publish cartoons weekly in the
Herald
until 2000.
[17]
- William Berry
, editor of the New Zealand Herald in 1875 and the Daily Southern Cross in 1877
- William Lane
Leader writer from 1900 then appointed editor in 1913.
Format
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On 10 September 2012, the Herald moved to a
compact
format for weekday editions, after 150 years publishing in
broadsheet
format. The broadsheet format was retained for the
Weekend Herald
.
[18]
Political stance and editorial opinion
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The Herald
is traditionally a
centre-right
newspaper and was given the nickname "Granny Herald" into the 1990s.
[10]
The
Herald
's
stance on the Middle East is supportive of Israel, as seen most clearly in its 2003 censorship and dismissal of cartoonist
Malcolm Evans
following his submission of cartoons critical of Israel.
[19]
In 2007, an editorial strongly disapproved of some legislation introduced by the
Labour-led government
, the
Electoral Finance Act
, to the point of overtly campaigning against the legislation.
[20]
Journalistic mishaps
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]
Mistaken identity incident
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]
In July 2014, the
Herald
published a front-page story about the death of Guy Boyland, a New Zealand-born soldier killed in
Gaza
. The paper pulled a photograph of the television star
Ryan Dunn
, killed in 2011, from Boyland's Facebook page, erroneously claiming it was of Boyland. When the
Herald
'
s mistake was revealed, the paper issued apologies to Boyland's family, his friends, and the paper's readers.
[21]
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 the
Herald
's
reputation, which it tried to repair by apologising. The
Herald
promised to reform its newsroom processes.
[22]
Ethics incident
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]
In July 2015, the
New Zealand Press Council
ruled that
Herald
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 Minister
John Key
repeatedly pulling her hair when he was a customer at the cafe in which she worked. The
Herald
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 "The
NZ Herald
has fallen sadly short of those standards in this case." The
Herald
'
s editor denied the accusations of subterfuge. Glucina subsequently resigned from the newspaper.
[23]
COVID-19 disinformation
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]
In 2020, the
New Zealand Herald
ran inserts provided by the
People's Daily
, the official mouthpiece of the
Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
, pushing
Chinese state disinformation about COVID-19
.
[24]
The newspaper subsequently deleted the story from its website.
[24]
Titles
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The Weekend Herald
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]
In 1998 the
Weekend Herald
was set up as a separate title and the newspaper's website was launched.
[25]
Herald on Sunday
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]
A compact-sized Sunday edition, the
Herald on Sunday
, was first published on 3 October 2004 under the editorship of Suzanne Chetwin and then, for five years, by
Shayne 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, the
Herald on Sunday
started a campaign to reduce the legal
blood alcohol
limit for driving in New Zealand, called the "Two Drinks Max" campaign. The paper set up a campaign
Facebook
page, a
Twitter
account, and encouraged readers to sign up to the campaign on its own website.
[26]
It is currently edited by
Alanah Eriksen
.
[27]
Herald Online
website
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The newspaper's online news service, originally called
Herald 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 2008
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 Honouree in the 2007
Webby Awards
.
[28]
A
paywall
was added for "premium content" starting on 29 April 2019.
[29]
Editors
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]
- Managing editor
: Murray Kirkness
[30]
- Weekends editor
: Stuart Dye
[31]
Regular columnists
[
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Arms
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Coat of arms of The New Zealand Herald
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- Notes
- The arms of the newspaper,
The New Zealand Herald
, consist of:
[32]
- Crest
- On a wreath of the colours two Trumpets in saltire Or bound together by a Maori Taniko in the shape of the letter H proper.
- Escutcheon
- Per chevron Azure and Gules in chief on a Pale Or between a representation of the Constellation of the Southern Cross and a Lymphad sails furled oars in action Argent a Sword point upwards Gules in base a Caduceus Or.
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