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, usually for the morning and evening. However now most cities only have one daily or weekly paper.

There are no national newspapers however The New Zealand Herald is distributed widely outside of its core distribution area and the same is true but to a lesser extent for the Otago Daily Times and The Post. The four main centres of New Zealand each have a major newspaper based in them Auckland (The New Zealand Herald), Christchurch (The Press), Dunedin (Otago Daily Times) and Wellington (The Post). Along these there are several low-budget and free papers which cater for particular areas or subcultures. New Zealand's newspapers are mainly owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment and Stuff.

Circulation and readership

class="wikitable sortable"
Publication

! City

! Circulation{{Cite web |title=Circulation |url=https://npa.co.nz/newspaper-advertising/circulation/ |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=NPA {{!}} News Publishers' Association |language=en-NZ}}

!Readership (2023/2024){{Cite web |title=Nielsen National Readership Report: Newspaper Toplines Q3 2023 - Q2 2024 |url=https://www.mad-daily.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Nielsen-Newspaper-Toplines-Year-Ending-Q2-2024.pdf |website=Nielsen Holdings}}

! Owned by (2024)

!Founded

The New Zealand HeraldAuckland100,073 (2021)

|521,000

NZME1863
Herald on Sunday

|Auckland

|

|313,000

|NZME

|2004

The Star

|Christchurch

|

|87,000

|Star Media

|1868

Sunday Star-Times

|Auckland

|77,000 (2017)

|

|Stuff

|1994

The Post

|Wellington

|30,473

|111,000

|Stuff

|2002

The PressChristchurch31,207 (2021)

|90,000

Stuff1861
Otago Daily TimesDunedin24,904 (2023)

|80,000

Allied Press1861
The Star

|Dunedin

|

|38,000

|Allied Press

|1863

Rodney Times

|Auckland

|

|37,000

|Stuff

|1901

Hawke's Bay TodayHastings15,690 (2019)

|

NZME1999
Te Puke Times

|Te Puke

|15,418 (2023)

|

|NZME

|1912

Manawatū Guardian

|Palmerston North

|14,497 (2023)

|

|NZME

|1972

Horowhenua Chronicle

|Levin

|12,984 (2023)

|

|NZME

|1893

Waikato TimesHamilton11,633 (2021)

|45,000

Stuff1872
Katikati Advertiser

|Katikati

|11,062 (2023)

|

|NZME

|1967

Bay of Plenty TimesTauranga10,162 (2019)

|

NZME1872
The Northern Advocate

|Whangārei

|9,676 (2019)

|

|NZME

|1875

The Southland TimesInvercargill9,501 (2021)

|

Stuff1862
Taranaki Daily NewsNew Plymouth8,704 (2021)

|

Stuff1857
Whanganui Chronicle

|Whanganui

|7,498 (2019)

|

|NZME

|1856

The Nelson MailNelson5,532 (2021)

|

Stuff1866
The Daily Post

|Rotorua

|5,207 (2019)

|

|NZME

|1885

Manawatū StandardPalmerston North5,058 (2021)

|

Stuff1880
Wairarapa Times-Age

|Masterton

|5,053 (2021)

|

|Stuff

|1878

The Timaru HeraldTimaru4,885 (2021)

|

Stuff1864
Gisborne HeraldGisborne4,648 (2021)

|

NZME1874
Ashburton Guardian

|Ashburton

|4,306 (2019)

|

|Ashburton Guardian Co.

|1879

Greymouth StarGreymouth3,203 (2021)

|

Allied Press1866
Marlborough ExpressBlenheim2,917 (2021)

|

Stuff1866
Westport NewsWestport1,884 (2008)

|

The Westport News1871

Newspapers

List of defunct and operating newspapers in New Zealand by date of launch.

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;1830s

;1840s

  • Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle
  • New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian
  • New Zealander

;1850s

;1860s

;1870s

;1890s

  • Horowhenua Chronicle (1893–2024)
  • Paeroa Gazette{{cite web|url=http://www.ohinemuri.org.nz/journal/36/paeroa_gazette_1891_1991.htm|title=PAEROA GAZETTE 1891 – 1991|work=ohinemuri.org.nz|accessdate=31 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724200754/http://www.ohinemuri.org.nz/journal/36/paeroa_gazette_1891_1991.htm|archive-date=24 July 2011|url-status=dead}}
  • The Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser (1901–1936)

;1900s

;1910s

  • Industrial Unionist[http://www.takver.com/history/nz/tm/tm09.htm 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.
  • Maoriland Worker,{{cite web

| title=High Casualty Rate

| url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/N/NewZealandPress/HighCasualtyRate/en

| author=Bruce Macdonald Brown| publisher=Department of External Affairs

| accessdate=2008-07-05

| year=1966}} aka the Standard

  • Northern News
  • Te Puke Times (1912–2024)

; 1920s

; 1930s

  • Manukau Courier
  • Te Awamutu Courier (1936–2024)
  • ZealandiaNicholas Evan Reid, The Bishop's Paper: A History of the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Auckland, CPC, Auckland, 2000, p. 55 {{ISBN|0473072181}}

;1940s

  • North Shore Times

;1960s

;1970s

;1980s

;1990s

;2000s

;2010s

  • Manawatū Guardian (2010–2024)
  • Taupō & Tūrangi Herald (2014–2024)

;2020s

  • Hauraki-Coromandel Post (2020–2024)
  • The Waikato Local

;Unknown launch date

  • Hamilton Press

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Magazines

{{main category|Magazines published in New Zealand}}

= Operating =

List of operating magazines in New Zealand by date of launch.{{Cite web |title=Magazines and periodicals |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/magazines-and-periodicals |website=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand}}

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;1930s

;1930s

;1940s

  • New Zealand Gardener (since 1944)

;1970s

  • Art New Zealand (since 1977)
  • Art News Aotearoa, originally Art News New Zealand (since 1979)

;1980s

;1990s

;2000s

  • Kia Ora (since 2007)
  • Mindfood (since 2008)

;2010s

  • Capital (since 2013)
  • Denizen (since 2011)
  • Denizen Modern Living (since 2016)

;2020s

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= Defunct =

List of defunct magazines in New Zealand by date of launch.

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;1840s

  • New Zealand Journal (1840 to 1852)

;1850s

  • New Zealand Magazine (1850)

;1860s

  • Auckland Punch (1868 to 1869)
  • Canterbury Punch (1865)
  • Chapman’s New Zealand Monthly Magazine (1862)
  • Otago Punch (1866 to 1867)
  • Southern Monthly Magazine (1863 to 1866)
  • Taranaki Punch (1860 to 1861)

;1880s

  • New Zealand Punch (1888)
  • Zealandia (1889)

;1890s

  • New Zealand Graphic and Ladies’ Journal (1890 to 1908)

;1920s

  • Aussie New Zealand (1923 to 1932)
  • The Mirror (1922 to 1963)
  • New Zealand Railways Magazine (1926 to 1940)

;1930s

  • Home and Building (1937 to 1975)
  • New Zealand Mercury (1933 to 1936)
  • Oriflamme and Sirocco (1933)
  • Spilt Ink (1932 to 1937)
  • Tomorrow (1934 to 1940)
  • Women To-day (1936 to 1939)

;1940s

  • All Sports Monthly, Sports Digest from 1963 (1949 to 1979)
  • Arena (1942 to 1975)
  • Here and Now (1948 to 1957)
  • Junior Digest (1945 to 1965){{cite book| last1 = Keith| first1 = Hamish| author-link1 = Hamish Keith| title = New Zealand yesterdays: a look at our recent past| year = 1984| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SDwTAQAAIAAJ| publisher = Reader's Digest Services| publication-date = 1984| page = 131| isbn = 9780949819406| access-date = 2016-04-21| quote = Junior Digest, published in Christchurch, lasted from 1945 to 1964- longer than most of the magazines [...]}}
  • New Zealand Farmer (1946 to 2001)
  • New Zealand Sportsman (1946 to 1960)

;1950s

;1960s

  • Elegance in Australia & New Zealand (1960s) - Australian/New Zealand version of Flair
  • Eve (1966 to 1975)
  • Life New Zealand (1967 to 1968)
  • The Northlander (1961 to 1977)
  • Thursday (1968 to 1976)

;1970s

  • Broadsheet (1972 to 1997)
  • The New Zealand Charity and Legal Gazette (1975 to 2016)
  • Out! (1976 to 2009){{cite web|url=http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_7473.php|title=GayNZ.com NZ's longest-running gay magazine ends|accessdate=22 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924021022/http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_7473.php|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}
  • Rip It Up (1977 to 2015)

;1980s

  • ChaCha (1983 to ?)
  • More (1983 to 1996)
  • W5 (1980s)
  • Wellington Cosmo (1984 to 1987)

;1990s

;2000s

;2010s

;2020s

  • Thrive (2020 to 2022)

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= Never launched =

L'Officiel New Zealand was planned to launch in 2014 however it never entered publication, it was supposed to be published by the publisher of Australian L'Officiel.{{Cite web |title=Voila! L'Officiel ready for local launch - AdNews |url=https://www.adnews.com.au/news/voila-l-officiel-ready-for-local-launch |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=www.adnews.com.au |language=en}}

= Student magazines =

{{main category|Student newspapers published in New Zealand}}

= Literary magazines =

{{main category|Literary magazines published in New Zealand}}

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;1930s

  • Phoenix (1932){{cite web |last1=Schrader |first1=Ben |title=Page 4. Art and literary magazines, 1930 to 1950 |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/magazines-and-periodicals/page-4 |website=Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=12 December 2020}}

;1940s

  • Book (1942–1947)
  • Landfall (1947 to present)
  • New Zealand New Writing (1943 to 1945)

;1980s

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See also

  • Joseph Ivess (1844–1919), who had an association with about 40 newspapers and founded many of them{{DNZB|Harvey|Ross |2i3|Ivess, Joseph – Biography|14 April 2012}}

References

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