{{Short description|New Zealand newspaper}} {{Redirect|Star Times|the television provider based in China|StarTimes}} {{distinguish|Sunday Times-Star|Sunday Star (disambiguation){{!}}Sunday Star|The Sunday Times (disambiguation){{!}}The Sunday Times}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Sunday Star-Times | school = | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | motto = | type = [[Sunday newspaper]] | format = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]] | owner = [[Stuff (company)|Stuff Ltd]] | founder = <!-- or |founders= --> | publisher = | president = | editor = Tracy Watkins | chief_editor = | deputy_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = | general_manager = | news_editor = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | metro_editor = | metro_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = {{start date and age|1994|03}} | political_position = | language = | ceased_publication = | relaunched = | headquarters = [[Auckland]], New Zealand | publishing_city = | publishing_country = | circulation = 77,000 | circulation_date = 2017 | circulation_ref = <ref name="nw171208">{{cite web|title=Sunday Star Times (Fairfax)|url=http://www.newsworksnz.co.nz/titles-rates-specs/sunday-star-times-fairfax/|publisher=Newsworks NZ|access-date=8 December 2017}}</ref> | readership = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = | oclc = | RNI = | website = {{URL|https://www.thepost.co.nz/sunday-star-times}} | free = }}
The '''''Sunday Star-Times''''' is a New Zealand newspaper published each weekend in [[Auckland]]. It covers both national and international news, and is a member of the [[New Zealand Press Association]] and Newspaper Publishers Association of New Zealand. It is owned by media business [[Stuff (company)|Stuff Ltd]], formerly the New Zealand branch of [[Australia]]n media company [[Fairfax Media]].
In 2019, the newspaper won the title of New Zealand Newspaper of the Year.<ref name=":0" />
==History== The ''Sunday Star-Times'' was first published in March 1994 after the merger of ''[[The Dominion (Wellington)|The Dominion]] Sunday Times'' and ''The Sunday [[Auckland Star|Star]]''. The ''Dominion Sunday Times'' started in 1965 and was renamed to ''Sunday Times'' (1976–1981), ''New Zealand Times'' (1981–1986), New Zealand Sunday Times (1986–1987), then reverted to its original (1987–1992), before it was known as the ''Sunday Times'' (1992–1994).<ref>{{cite web |title=Dominion Sunday times (Newspaper) |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22386523 |publisher=[[National Library of New Zealand]] |access-date=28 October 2019}}</ref>
[[Jenny Wheeler]] was the editor for six and a half years.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-03-20|title=Noted! Jenny Wheeler Online|url=https://www.jennywheeler.biz/noted-jenny-wheeler-online/|access-date=2021-06-06|website=JENNY WHEELER BOOKS|language=en-US}}</ref> The paper was edited by Cate Brett from 2003 until 2008 when she took up a post at the [[New Zealand Law Commission]]. She was replaced by Australian [[Mitchell Murphy]] who, in 2010, was promoted to the role of publisher for Fairfax Sundays and in 2012 to executive director of publishing.<ref>{{cite press release|title=The Newspaper Works appoints Mitchell Murphy to new role of executive director of publishing|publisher=Campaign Brief|date=9 August 2012|url=http://www.campaignbrief.com/2012/08/the-newspaper-works-appoints-m.html|access-date=10 November 2012}}</ref> In May 2010 David Kemeys was appointed editor, reporting directly to Murphy.
Jonathan Milne was editor of the Sunday Star Times from 2014 to June 2019.<ref>{{cite web|title=New editor for CI News|date=27 March 2019|url=http://www.cookislandsnews.com/item/72279-new-editor-for-ci-news/72279-new-editor-for-ci-news|access-date=22 July 2019}}</ref>
The paper has a focus on providing an entertaining Sunday read with a mixture of news, features and celebrity gossip.
Regular contributors for the ''Sunday Star-Times'' include [[Rosemary McLeod]], [[Michael Laws]], and Finlay MacDonald. [[Steve Braunias]] was a regular columnist for the Sunday magazine part of the newspaper, but was sacked in early 2011 for exchanging abusive emails with a Gisborne police prosecutor named Claire Stewart.<ref name="NZ_Herald_10701500">{{cite web |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10701500 |title=Cop and columnist in angry email spat |author=Meng-Yee, Carolyne |date=23 January 2011 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |access-date=15 September 2011}}</ref> On 21 October 2018, the paper changed format from [[broadsheet]] to [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]], following Stuff's conversion of its nine daily newspapers in April that year.{{Update after|2018|10|21}}
===Māori Party claims=== In 2004 the paper published a front-page story claiming that the [[New Zealand Security Intelligence Service]] was spying on members of the newly formed [[Māori Party]]. The article was co-authored by [[Nicky Hager]]. A government inquiry led by the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security later rejected these claims in April 2005, and the paper had to publish a front page apology to its readers when a government investigation found the claims to be unsubstantiated.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}
== Awards and nominations == {| class="wikitable" |+ !Year !Award !Result |- |2019 |[[2019 Voyager Media Awards|Voyager Media Awards]]: Newspaper of the Year |Winner<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://voyagermediaawards.nz/newspapers-winners-2019|title=Newspapers Winners 2019|website=Voyager Media Awards|language=en-NZ|access-date=2020-03-01}}</ref> |- | |Voyager Media Awards: Weekly Newspaper of the Year |Winner<ref name=":0" /> |- | |Voyager Media Awards: Best Newspaper Front Page |Winner<ref name=":0" /> |}
==See also== *[[List of print media in New Zealand]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|https://www.thepost.co.nz/sunday-star-times}}
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