Hawke's Bay Today

{{multiple issues| {{no footnotes|date=June 2013}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2013}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2012}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Hawke's Bay Today | image = Hawkes Bay Today logo.png | type = Daily [[newspaper]] | format = [[Compact (newspaper)|Compact]] | founded = 1999 | owners = [[New Zealand Media and Entertainment]] | headquarters = [[Hastings, New Zealand]] | editor = Chris Hyde | website = {{URL|https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/}} }}

'''''Hawke's Bay Today''''' is a daily compact [[newspaper]] published in [[Hastings, New Zealand]] and serving Hastings, Napier and the Hawke's Bay region. It is owned by NZME. The ''Hawke's Bay Today'' is New Zealand's youngest newspaper, founded on 3 May 1999.{{Citation needed|date=August 2025}}

==History== ''Hawke's Bay Today'' was launched on 3 May 1999, a merger of the dailies the ''[[Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune]]'' in Hastings and ''[[Napier's Daily Telegraph]]''. Its earliest incarnation was "a Saturday morning weekly named the ''Hawke's Bay Herald and Ahuriri Advocate'', which first rolled off the presses in Napier on 24 September 1857," according to the company website.{{Citation needed|date=August 2025}}

The Saturday evening ''Hawke's Bay Today'' was discontinued in 2002 to make way for the new weekend edition published on Saturday mornings.{{Citation needed|date=August 2025}}

In 2005 the local news content of the ''[[Dannevirke News]]'' was merged with ''Hawke's Bay Today''.{{Citation needed|date=August 2025}}

On 19 March 2012, ''Hawke's Bay Today'' became a morning newspaper. It was previously released in the afternoon.{{Citation needed|date=August 2025}}

On 25 February 2013, the paper moved from a broadsheet to compact size.{{Citation needed|date=August 2025}}

In 2024, the paper won Newspaper of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards, as well as Best Use of Print at the INMA Global Media Awards for its coverage of Cyclone Gabrielle.{{Citation needed|date=August 2025}}

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==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/}}

[[Category:Newspapers published in New Zealand]] [[Category:Hawke's Bay]] [[Category:Mass media in Hastings, New Zealand]] [[Category:Newspapers established in 1999]] [[Category:New Zealand Media and Entertainment]] [[Category:1999 establishments in New Zealand]]