{{Short description|Daily newspaper}} {{About|the newspaper|the officer of arms|New Zealand Herald Extraordinary}} {{Redirect-distinguish|The Herald on Sunday|Herald Sun|Herald (newspaper)#Sunday Herald{{!}}Sunday Herald}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=November 2012}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The New Zealand Herald | logo = The New Zealand Herald logo.webp | image = The New Zealand Herald newspaper.jpg | caption = Front page, 5 April 2024 | type = Daily newspaper | format = Compact <small>(weekdays and Sundays)</small> <br/> Broadsheet <small>(Saturdays)</small> | founded = {{start date and age|1863}}<br />(by William Chisholm Wilson) | owners = NZME | headquarters = Auckland | editor = Murray Kirkness (weekday)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11467354|title=Murray Kirkness appointed new editor of ''New Zealand Herald''|date=18 June 2015|work=The New Zealand Herald}}</ref> | publishing_country = New Zealand | circulation = 100,073 | circulation_date = 30 September 2019 | circulation_ref = <ref name="saing">{{cite report |last=Te |first=Saing |title=Media Ownership in New Zealand from 2011 to 2020 |url=https://www.aut.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/498566/Saing-Te-JMAD-report-2021-final.pdf |page= 7 |date=2021 |publisher=Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies |others=Commissioned by the Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) Research Centre |access-date=23 July 2022 |archive-date=5 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205034954/https://www.aut.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/498566/Saing-Te-JMAD-report-2021-final.pdf }}</ref> | chief_editor = Murray Kirkness<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nzme-managing-editor-shayne-currie-moves-into-new-role/L2DKVSK7SVCF3MHJU6TD2SF52Q/|title=NZME managing editor Shayne Currie moves into new role|date=14 March 2023|work=The New Zealand Herald}}</ref> | ISSN = 1170-0777 | oclc = 11123090 | website = {{URL|https://www.nzherald.co.nz/|nzherald.co.nz}} }} '''''The New Zealand Herald''''' is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand.<ref>{{multiref2|1={{cite web|date=2022 |title=Behind the Lines: ''The New Zealand Herald''|url=https://behindthelines.moadoph.gov.au/publications/the-new-zealand-herald |website= Museum of Australian Democracy |publisher=Government of Australia}}|2={{citation|publisher=Auckland Libraries |last=Wild|first=Jane |title=''NZ Herald'' glass plate negatives and the man in a hat with a cat |url=https://heritageetal.blogspot.com/2017/08/nz-herald-glass-plate-negatives-and-man.html |work=Heritage et AL |id=Unique collections and resources from Auckland Libraries research centres and heritage collections|date=9 August 2017|quote=This builds on our partnership with the ''New Zealand Herald'' getting the newspaper of record microfilmed and digitised ...}}|3={{cite journal |last1=Sommer |first1=Udi |last2=Rappel-Kroyzer |first2=Or |title=Online coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Anglo-American democracies: Internet news coverage and pandemic politics in the USA, Canada, and New Zealand |journal=Journal of Information Technology & Politics |date=2 October 2022 |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=393–410 |doi=10.1080/19331681.2021.1997869 |s2cid=244545175 |quote=We comprehensively study the coverage of the outbreak on the internet website of a newspaper of record in each [country].{{nbsp}}... the websites of the ''New York Times'', ''New Zealand Herald'', and the ''Globe and Mail'' ...}}}}</ref>
It has the largest newspaper circulation in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the daily ''Herald'' had declined to 100,073 copies on average by September 2019.<ref name="saing" />
The ''Herald''{{'}}s publications include a daily paper; the ''Weekend Herald'', a weekly Saturday paper; and the ''Herald on Sunday'', which has 365,000 readers nationwide.<ref name=2024-01-04>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-04 |title=NZ Herald audience numbers continue to climb |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/nz-herald-audience-numbers-continue-to-climb-readership-up-56-per-cent/5UOGN4NCVWXSQ5YBTZYB4F34BA/ |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=NZ Herald |language=en-NZ}}</ref> The ''Herald on Sunday'' is the most widely read Sunday paper in New Zealand.<ref name=2024-01-04 />
The paper's website, nzherald.co.nz, is viewed 2.2 million times a week<ref name=2024-01-04 /> and was named Voyager Media Awards' News Website of the Year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.<ref name=2024-01-04FR>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-04 |title='First-rate': NZ Herald wins Website and News App of the Year at Voyager Media Awards |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/first-rate-nz-herald-reigns-supreme-at-voyager-media-awards-website-of-the-year-and-news-app-of-the-year-for-third-straight-year/AKK7EXXLH5LPDKPCGGGMEV3JQI/ |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=NZ Herald |language=en-NZ}}</ref> In 2023, the ''Weekend Herald'' was awarded Weekly Newspaper of the Year and the publication's mobile application was the News App of the Year.<ref name=2024-01-04FR />
Its main circulation area is the Auckland region. It is also delivered to much of the North Island, including Northland, Waikato, King Country, Hawke's Bay, Bay of Plenty, Manawatū-Whanganui, and Wellington.<ref name="circulation">{{cite news|title=More eyes on the ''Herald'' as readership rises to 844,000 a day|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11354909|access-date=21 August 2015|work=The New Zealand Herald|date=7 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nabs.co.nz/page/pageid/2145834747 |title=NAB – ''New Zealand Herald'' |access-date=23 May 2012 |publisher=Newspaper Advertising Bureau |year=2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508044521/http://www.nabs.co.nz/page/pageid/2145834747 |archive-date=8 May 2012 }}</ref>
== History == [[File:THE New Zealand Hearld AND DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS. TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1878.png|thumb|New Zealand Herald and Daily Southern Cross excerpt regarding the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), 14 January 1878]] ''The New Zealand Herald'' was founded by William Chisholm Wilson (1810–1876),<ref>{{cite news |title=Death of Mr. W. C. Wilson |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18760706.2.11 |access-date=6 May 2026 |work=The New Zealand Herald |volume=XIII |issue=4569 |date=6 July 1876 |page=2 |via=Papers Past}}</ref> and first published on 13 November 1863. Wilson had been a partner with John Williamson in ''The New-Zealander'', but left to start a rival daily newspaper as he saw a business opportunity with Auckland's rapidly growing population.<ref name="SC history"/> He had also split with Williamson because Wilson supported the war against the Māori (which the ''Herald'' termed "the native rebellion") while Williamson opposed it.<ref name=PP_NZH/> The ''Herald'' also promoted a more constructive relationship between the North and South Islands.<ref name=PP_NZH>{{cite web |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/new-zealand-herald |title=Background: ''The New-Zealander'' |work=Papers Past |publisher=National Library of New Zealand – Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa|access-date=27 October 2023}}</ref>
After ''The New Zealander'' closed in 1866, ''The Daily Southern Cross'' provided competition, particularly after Julius Vogel took a majority shareholding in 1868. First published as ''The Southern Cross'' (without ''daily'' in its title) in 1843 by William Brown, it became a daily publication in 1862, with its name modified to ''The Daily Southern Cross''. Vogel sold out of the paper in 1873 and Alfred Horton bought it in 1876.<ref name="SC history">{{cite web |title=Background: ''Daily Southern Cross'' |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/daily-southern-cross |work=Papers Past |publisher=National Library of New Zealand – Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa |access-date=27 October 2023}}</ref>
In 1876 the Wilson family and Horton joined in partnership and ''The New Zealand Herald'' absorbed ''The Daily Southern Cross''.<ref name="SC history"/><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2h49/1|title=Horton, Alfred George|first=Michael|last=Horton|date=1 September 2010|encyclopedia=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography|publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage|access-date=15 September 2012}}</ref>
In 1879 the United Press Association was formed so that the main daily papers could share news stories. The organisation became the New Zealand Press Association (NZPA) in 1942.<ref name="TA1">Mark Derby. [http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/newspapers/page-2 "Newspapers – Growth and expansion, 1860–1900"], ''Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand'', updated 13 August 2014</ref> In 1892, the ''New Zealand Herald'', ''Otago Daily Times'', and ''Press'' agreed to share the costs of a London correspondent and advertising salesman.<ref name="TA1"/> The NZPA closed in 2011.<ref name=farewell>{{cite news |title=Farewell NZPA, hello three new news services |first=Andrew |last=Stone |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/farewell-nzpa-hello-three-new-services/55GKH4KOF2DNYZ722F5HD2MFBI/?c_id=1&objectid=10748448 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=31 August 2011 |access-date=27 October 2023 |archive-date=31 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331145028/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/farewell-nzpa-hello-three-new-services/55GKH4KOF2DNYZ722F5HD2MFBI/?c_id=1&objectid=10748448}}</ref>
The Wilson and Horton families were both represented in the company, known as Wilson & Horton, until 1996 when Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media Group of Dublin purchased the Horton family's interest in the company. At some point, the company was purchased by APN NZ, a New Zealand subsidiary of APN News & Media.{{Citation needed |date=March 2024}} In April 2007, APN NZ announced it was outsourcing the bulk of the ''Herald''{{'}}s copy editing to an Australian-owned company, Pagemasters. ''The Herald'' is now owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, formed in 2014. That company was owned by Sydney-based APN News & Media and the Radio Network, formerly owned by the Australian Radio Network.
In November 2012, two months after the launch of its new compact format, APN News and Media announced it would be restructuring its workforce, cutting eight senior roles from across the ''Herald''{{'}}s range of titles.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.3news.co.nz/Eight-jobs-to-go-in-Herald-restructure/tabid/421/articleID/278559/Default.aspx|work=3 News NZ|title=Eight jobs to go in Herald restructure|date=9 September 2012|access-date=28 November 2012|archive-date=31 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731125143/http://www.3news.co.nz/Eight-jobs-to-go-in-Herald-restructure/tabid/421/articleID/278559/Default.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>
=== Notable contributors === * Dita de Boni was a columnist for the newspaper, writing her first columns for the NZ Herald in 1995. From 2012 to 2015 she wrote a business and politics column until – after a series of articles increasingly critical of the Key government – the ''Herald'' discontinued her column for financial reasons.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Russell|title=Everybody has one|url=http://publicaddress.net/hardnews/everybody-has-one/|work=Public Address|date=27 August 2015 |access-date=28 August 2015}}</ref> *Gordon Minhinnick was a staff cartoonist from the 1930s until his retirement in the 1980s. *Malcolm Evans was dismissed from his position as staff cartoonist in 2003 after the newspaper received complaints about his cartoons on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cartoonist sacked after being accused of anti-Semitism |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/cartoonist-sacked-after-being-accused-of-anti-semitism-20030815-gdh96v.html |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |agency=New Zealand Press Association – NZPA |date=15 August 2003}}</ref> *Laurence Clark was the daily political cartoonist from 1987 to 1996 and continued to publish cartoons weekly in the ''Herald'' until 2000.<ref>{{multiref2|1={{cite web|url=http://www.klarc.co.nz/bio.html|title=Bio|website=Laurence Clark 'Klarc'|access-date=20 February 2009|archive-date=10 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710075825/http://www.klarc.co.nz/bio.html}}|2={{cite web |url= http://www.cartoons.org.nz/exhibitions/the_line_up/l_u_29.htm |id= Cartoon Reference no: J-044-010| title =Cartoon: 'The line up' – New PCs on The Beat, by Klarc (Laurence Clark), published ''New Zealand Herald'', 28 June 1997| website= New Zealand Cartoon Archive |date=2002 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071107032330/http://www.cartoons.org.nz/exhibitions/the_line_up/l_u_29.htm |archive-date=7 November 2007}}}}</ref> *William Berry, editor of the New Zealand Herald in 1875 and the Daily Southern Cross in 1877 * William Lane, Leader writer from 1900 then appointed editor in 1913.
=== Format === On 10 September 2012, the Herald moved to a compact format for weekday editions, after 150 years publishing in broadsheet format. The broadsheet format was retained for the ''Weekend Herald''.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10818328 |title=New look ''Herald'' smaller and bigger |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=9 July 2012 |access-date=9 July 2012}}</ref>
== Political stance and editorial opinion == ''The Herald'' is traditionally a centre-right newspaper and was given the nickname "Granny Herald" into the 1990s.<ref name=PP_NZH/>
== Brands == ===''The Weekend Herald''=== In 1998 the ''Weekend Herald'' was set up as a separate title and the newspaper's website was launched.<ref>{{cite news|title=A brief history of The New Zealand Herald|url=http://subscriptions.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?page=27|work=The New Zealand Herald |publisher=NZME|access-date=21 August 2015}}</ref>
=== ''Herald on Sunday'' === A compact-sized Sunday edition, the ''Herald on Sunday'', was first published on 3 October 2004 under the editorship of Suzanne Chetwin and then, for five years, by Shayne Currie. It won Newspaper of the Year for the calendar years 2007 and 2009 and is New Zealand's most-read Sunday newspaper. In 2010, the ''Herald on Sunday'' started a campaign to reduce the legal blood alcohol limit for driving in New Zealand, called the "Two Drinks Max" campaign. The paper set up a campaign Facebook page, a Twitter account, and encouraged readers to sign up to the campaign on its own website.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10682676|title=Editorial: Two Drinks Max: Sign up and make us safer|work=The New Zealand Herald|date=24 October 2010 }}</ref> It is currently edited by Alanah Eriksen.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nzme.co.nz/news/nzme-platforms-continue-to-be-the-number-one-news-destination-for-kiwis/|title=NZME platforms continue to be the number one news destination for Kiwis|work=NZME|date=3 March 2022}}</ref>
=== ''Herald Online'' website === The newspaper's online news service, originally called ''Herald Online'', was established in 1998. It was redesigned in late 2006, and again in 2012. The site was named best news website at the 2007 and 2008 Qantas Media Awards, won the "best re-designed website" category at the 2007 New Zealand NetGuide Awards, and was one of seven newspaper sites named an Official Honouree in the 2007 Webby Awards.<ref name="NZ_Herald_10440446">{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/qantas-awards/news/article.cfm?c_id=1500991&objectid=10440446|title=''Herald'' website judged best news site|date=19 May 2007|work=The New Zealand Herald|access-date=21 November 2011}}</ref> A paywall was added for "premium content" starting on 29 April 2019.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018692495/nzme-puts-a-price-on-its-paywall|title=NZME puts a price on its paywall|publisher=Radio New Zealand|date=26 April 2019}}</ref>
== Editors == *''Managing editor'': Murray Kirkness<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 March 2023 |title=NZME managing editor steps into new role |work=The New Zealand Herald |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nzme-managing-editor-shayne-currie-moves-into-new-role/L2DKVSK7SVCF3MHJU6TD2SF52Q/}}</ref> *''Weekends editor'': Stuart Dye<ref name="Contacts">{{cite news |title=Contacts |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/site-information-help/news/article.cfm?c_id=500827&objectid=10414972 |access-date=12 October 2019 |work=The New Zealand Herald}}</ref>
== Regular columnists == * Deborah Coddington, ''Herald on Sunday'' * Matt McCarten, ''Herald on Sunday'' * Brian Rudman * Colin James is a past columnist
==Arms== {{Infobox COA wide |image = New Zealand Herald Arms.svg |bannerimage = |badgeimage = |notes = The arms of the newspaper, ''The New Zealand Herald'', consist of:<ref>{{citation|last=Tonson|first=A.E.|title=New Zealand Armorist|year=1970|volume=3|page=18}}</ref> |adopted = |crest = On a wreath of the colours two Trumpets in saltire Or bound together by a Māori Tāniko in the shape of the letter H proper. |torse = |helm = |escutcheon = Per chevron Azure and Gules in chief on a Pale Or between a representation of the Constellation of the Southern Cross and a Lymphad sails furled oars in action Argent a Sword point upwards Gules in base a Caduceus Or. |supporters = |compartment = |motto = |orders = |other_elements = |banner = |badge = |symbolism = |previous_versions = }}
== Issues and controversies ==
=== Mistaken identity incident === In July 2014, the ''Herald'' published a front-page story about the death of Guy Boyland, a New Zealand-born soldier killed in Gaza. The paper pulled a photograph of the television star Ryan Dunn, killed in 2011, from Boyland's Facebook page, erroneously claiming it was of Boyland. When the ''Herald''{{'}}s mistake was revealed, the paper issued apologies to Boyland's family, his friends, and the paper's readers.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Greenslade |first1=Roy |title=''NZ Herald'' sorry for publishing photo of ''Jackass'' star instead of dead soldier |url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jul/29/newspapers-newzealand |work=The Guardian |date=29 July 2014}}</ref> In a 2016 study by Philippa K. Smith and Helen Sissons, the authors said the mistake was caused by "a series of lapses in the newsroom". They concluded that the incident caused damage to the ''Herald''{{'s}} reputation, which it tried to repair by apologising. The ''Herald'' promised to reform its newsroom processes.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Philippa K |last2=Sissons |first2=Helen |title=Social media and a case of mistaken identity: A newspaper's response to journalistic error |journal=Journalism |date=15 December 2016 |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=467–482 |doi=10.1177/1464884916683551|s2cid=151488768 }}</ref>
=== Ethics incident === In July 2015, the New Zealand Press Council ruled that ''Herald'' columnist Rachel Glucina had failed to properly represent herself as a journalist when seeking comment from Amanda Bailey on a complaint she had made about Prime Minister John Key repeatedly pulling her hair when he was a customer at the cafe in which she worked. The ''Herald'' published Bailey's name, photo, and comments after she had retracted permission for Glucina to do so. The council said there was an "element of subterfuge" in Glucina's actions and that there was not enough public interest to justify her behaviour. In its ruling the council said that "The ''NZ Herald'' has fallen sadly short of those standards in this case." The ''Herald''{{'}}s editor denied the accusations of subterfuge. Glucina subsequently resigned from the newspaper.<ref>{{cite news |title=''New Zealand Herald'' used 'subterfuge' to interview woman who had hair pulled by John Key |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/03/new-zealand-herald-used-subterfuge-to-interview-woman-who-had-hair-pulled-by-john-key |access-date=21 August 2015 |work=The Guardian |agency=Australian Associated Press |date=3 July 2015}}</ref>
=== COVID-19 disinformation === In 2020, the ''New Zealand Herald'' ran inserts provided by the ''People's Daily'', the official mouthpiece of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, pushing Chinese state disinformation about COVID-19.<ref name="Kinetz AP">{{Cite news |last=Kinetz |first=Erika |date=2021-02-15 |title=Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID, China took leading role |url=https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-beijing-only-on-ap-epidemics-media-122b73e134b780919cc1808f3f6f16e8 |access-date=2021-03-12 |agency=Associated Press |work=AP News|quote=On Feb. 22, ''People's Daily'' ran a report highlighting speculation that the U.S. military brought the virus to China, pushing the story globally through inserts in newspapers such as the ''Helsinki Times'' in Finland and the ''New Zealand Herald''.{{pb}}''The New Zealand Herald'' said it has an 'ad hoc commercial relationship with ''People's Daily''{{'}}, labels their content as sponsored and reviews it before publication. 'Upon further review of the story that you have referred to, we have removed this particular item from our website', a spokesman said in an email.}}</ref> The newspaper subsequently deleted the story from its website.<ref name="Kinetz AP" />
=== 2024 Hobson's Pledge advertisement === On 7 August 2024, lobby group Hobson's Pledge published a full-page advertisement in ''The New Zealand Herald'' calling for the "restoration of the foreshore and seabed to public ownership." The advertisement drew criticism from Te Pāti Māori, who responded they would be cease engaging with ''The Herald'' until the newspaper and its owners NZME issued a public apology and amended their publishing standards.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Paterson |first1=Te Aniwaniwa |title=Te Pāti Māori will no longer engage with NZ Herald for 'anti-Māori propaganda' |url=https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/08/09/te-pati-maori-will-no-longer-engage-with-nz-herald-for-anti-maori-propaganda/ |access-date=11 August 2024 |work=Te Ao Māori News |publisher=Whakaata Māori |date=9 August 2024}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.nzherald.co.nz}}; alternative ''NZ Herald'' [http://m.nzherald.co.nz/ official website link] for mobile phone users * {{Newseum front page|NEWZ_NZH}} * [http://www.soldonapn.co.nz Sold on APN]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221185749/http://www.soldonapn.co.nz/ |date=21 February 2020 }} (for advertisers).
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