List of print media in New Zealand

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This is a list of print media in New Zealand. New Zealand once had several daily newspapers in each major city, but as in other countries the medium was damaged by radio and then television, and each city now only has one daily newspaper.

There are no truly national newspapers, although The New Zealand Herald and to a lesser extent The Dominion Post are both available outside their core areas. The four main centres of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin are served by The New Zealand Herald, The Dominion Post, The Press, and the Otago Daily Times. In addition, there are several weekly newspapers with a national scope, including two tabloids. There are also numerous low-budget weekly newspapers catering for particular suburbs or for subcultures including the gay and farming communities and various ethnic groups.

Ownership of New Zealand newspapers is dominated by Fairfax New Zealand and APN News & Media, with Fairfax having 48.6% of the daily newspaper circulation.^[1]

Dailies

Publication	City	Circulation (2014)[2]	Owned by (2013)
The New Zealand Herald	Auckland	142,566	APN News & Media
The Dominion Post	Wellington	68,912	Fairfax New Zealand
The Press	Christchurch	64,038	Fairfax New Zealand
Waikato Times	Hamilton	26,610	Fairfax New Zealand
Otago Daily Times	Dunedin	36,083	Allied Press
The Southland Times	Invercargill	23,231	Fairfax New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Today	Hastings	20,642	APN News & Media
Taranaki Daily News	New Plymouth	18,928	Fairfax New Zealand
Bay of Plenty Times	Tauranga	20,352	APN News & Media
Manawatu Standard	Palmerston North	12,357	Fairfax New Zealand
The Nelson Mail	Nelson	15,609	Fairfax New Zealand
The Timaru Herald	Timaru	14,010	Fairfax New Zealand
The Northern Advocate	Whangarei	13,292	APN News & Media
Wanganui Chronicle	Whanganui	11,217	APN News & Media
The Daily Post	Rotorua	10,294	APN News & Media
Gisborne Herald	Gisborne	7,705	Gisborne Herald Co.
Wairarapa Times-Age	Masterton	6,566	APN News & Media
Ashburton Guardian	Ashburton	5,243	Ashburton Guardian Company
Greymouth Star	Greymouth	4,284	Allied Press
Oamaru Mail	Oamaru	2,869	Allied Press
The News	Westport	1,884 (2008)	The Westport News
Daily Chronicle	Levin		APN News & Media
The Marlborough Express	Blenheim		Fairfax New Zealand

National weekly papers

• Herald on Sunday
• National Business Review
• The Sunday Star-Times

Free newspapers

Free newspapers are often called 'community newspapers' in New Zealand. Most are weekly and published in tabloid format:

• The Cambridge Edition
• Cook Strait News
• The Courier, Ashburton
• The Ensign, Gore
• Fiordland Advocate, Southland
• The Fishing Paper & Hunting News, national, monthly
• The GB Weekly, Golden Bay
• Hamilton News
• The Hauraki Herald
• Hamilton Press
• Horowhenua Chronicle
• Horowhenua Mail
• Howick and Botany Times
• Howick and Pakuranga Times
• The Hurunui Times
• The Kaikoura Star
• Kapiti Observer
• The Matamata Chronicle
• The News (also called The Lakes District and Central Otago News), Alexandra
• The Northern Outlook, North Canterbury
• Raglan Chronicle
• River City Press
• Ruapehu Bulletin
• South Waikato News
• Southern Rural Life
• Southland Express, Invercargill
• The Star, Christchurch
• The Star, Dunedin
• Te Awamutu Courier
• The Timaru Courier
• Waitomo News
• The Weekend Sun

Magazines

• Australian Women's Weekly NZ Edition
• Challenge Weekly
• Investigate
• Metro
• New Zealand Listener
• New Zealand Woman's Weekly
• North & South

Student magazines

• Canta – University of Canterbury
• Craccum – University of Auckland
• Critic – University of Otago
• Gyro – Otago Polytechnic
• Nexus – University of Waikato
• Salient – Victoria University of Wellington

Literary magazines

• Landfall
• Sport

Historic

Magazines

• Junior Digest^[3]

Newspapers

Note: these newspapers are listed by decade of first issue.

1830s New Zealand Gazette 1840s Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian New Zealander 1850s The Colonist Daily Southern Cross Hawke's Bay Herald Lyttelton Times New Zealand Chronicle Otago Witness Taranaki Herald 1860s The Evening Post Evening Star Grey River Argus Nelson Evening Mail The Christchurch Star The Timaru Herald Tuapeka Times Wellington Independent West Coast Times

1870s Auckland Star Bay of Plenty Times North Otago Times Southland Times Timaru Herald Wanganui Chronicle Wanganui Herald West Coast Times 1890s Paeroa Gazette[4] 1910s Industrial Unionist[5] Maoriland Worker,[6] aka the Standard^sic 1930s Zealandia[7]

See also

• Joseph Ivess (1844–1919), who had an association with about 40 newspapers and founded many of them^[8]

References

1. Rosenberg, Bill (2008-09-13). "News media ownership in New Zealand" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-09-14.
2. "Press audit results". The New Zealand Audit Bureau of Circulations. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
3. Keith, Hamish (1984). New Zealand yesterdays: a look at our recent past. Reader's Digest Services. p. 131. ISBN 9780949819406. Retrieved 2016-04-21. Junior Digest, published in Christchurch, lasted from 1945 to 1964- longer than most of the magazines [...]
4. "PAEROA GAZETTE 1891 – 1991". ohinemuri.org.nz. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
5. The I. W. W. and the General Strike in Aotearoa. Trouble Makers – Anarchism and Syndicalism. Takver.com (1999-08-16). Retrieved on 2012-07-03.
6. Bruce Macdonald Brown (1966). "High Casualty Rate". Department of External Affairs. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
7. Nicholas Evan Reid, The Bishop's Paper: A History of the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Auckland, CPC, Auckland, 2000, p. 55 ISBN 0473072181
8. Harvey, Ross. "Ivess, Joseph – Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 14 April 2012.

External links

• Papers Past at the National Library of New Zealand – a digitised collection of some historical newspapers