Marlborough Express
{{short description|New Zealand newspaper}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Marlborough Express
| type = Daily newspaper
| founder = Samuel Johnson and Thomas Johnson
| foundation = 1866
| headquarters = Blenheim, New Zealand
| website = {{url|https://www.thepress.co.nz/marlborough}}
}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=October 2013}}
The Marlborough Express is a newspaper serving the Marlborough area of New Zealand. Its headquarters are in Blenheim and has been published there since 1866.
Ownership
The Marlborough Express was set up by the printer, journalist and editor Samuel Johnson and his brother Thomas. They arrived in Blenheim in April 1866 and intended to set up weekly that served all of Marlborough Province, in opposition to the parochial papers serving Blenheim (Wairau Record) and Picton (Marlborough Press) already.{{DNZB|title=Samuel Johnson|first= D. G.|last= Edwards|id=2j4|access-date=5 March 2020}}{{cite web |title=Marlborough Express |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/marlborough-express |publisher=National Library of New Zealand |access-date=5 March 2020}} Johnson sold the newspaper to Smith Furness and James Boudy in 1879.
:Smith James Furness (1852–1921) also purchased the Marlborough Times (founded by John Tait in 1879) in 1895 and ran it as a morning paper until 1905.{{cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/marlborough-daily-times |title=PapersPast:Marlborough (Daily) Times |access-date=4 December 2023}}
It remained in the Furness family until 1998, when it was acquired by Independent Newspapers Limited (INL). Fairfax New Zealand, now Stuff Ltd, bought the INL mastheads in 2003.{{cite news |title=Fairfax buys INL's NZ business |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/fairfax-buys-inls-nz-business-20030526-gdgtrb.html |access-date=5 March 2020 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=26 May 2003}}{{cite news |title=Stuff's journey from newspaper pioneer to website to 'portfolio' business |url= https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/100974538/stuffs-journey-from-newspaper-pioneer-to-website-to-portfolio-business |newspaper=Stuff |date=1 February 2018 |access-date=5 March 2020}}
The current editor is Ian Allen, who was appointed in 2018.{{cite news |date=2 May 2018 |title=Look who's talking: New Marlborough regional editor Ian Allen |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/your-marlborough/103558621/look-whos-talking-new-marlborough-regional-editor-ian-allen |access-date=5 March 2020 |work=Marlborough Express}}
History
The Marlborough Express was published from 1866 as a weekly. It became a daily in 1880 and took over its rivals, the Marlborough Times in 1895, and the Marlborough Press in 1948.
The paper made headlines nationally in 2013 when it published a cartoon by Al Nisbet about the Government's introduction of food in schools that was widely criticised as "racist".{{cite news| url= http://www.radiolive.co.nz/Meals-in-Schools-cartoon---From-the-Marlborough-Express/tabid/427/articleID/35716/Default.aspx |work=RadioLIVE | title= Meals in Schools cartoon – From the Marlborough Express| date=30 May 2013}}{{cite news| url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8736295/Racist-cartoon-slammed |publisher=Stuff|location=New Zealand | title= 'Racist' cartoon slammed| date=30 May 2013}} The editor of the paper defended the cartoon's publication, saying it was meant to generate discussion.{{cite news| url= http://www.3news.co.nz/Editor-defends-controversial-cartoon/tabid/423/articleID/299690/Default.aspx |work=3 News NZ |title= Editor defends controversial cartoon| date=30 May 2013}} Race relations commissioner Susan Devoy called it "out of line".
The Marlborough Express was one of the first digitisation projects of The Preserving Local History and Educational Trust (Te Pupuri I Nga Hitori o Te Rohe Trust), with the charity preserving issues from 1921 to 1943.{{Cite web |title=The Project |url=https://preservinglocalhistory.com/the-project |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=The Preserving Local History and Education Trust}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.thepress.co.nz/marlborough}}
- [http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=CL1.MEX&e=-------10--1----0-- Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2011-04-01]
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Category:Publications with year of establishment missing
Category:Newspapers published in New Zealand
Category:Mass media in Blenheim, New Zealand