List of print media in New Zealand

This is a list of print media in New Zealand.

New Zealand once had several daily newspapers in each major city, but as in other countries the medium was damaged by radio and then television, and each city now only has one daily newspaper. There are no truly national newspapers although The New Zealand Herald and to a lesser extent The Dominion Post are both available outside their core areas. The four main centres of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin are served by The New Zealand Herald, The Dominion Post, The Press and the Otago Daily Times. There are several weekly newspapers with a national scope, including two tabloids. There are also numerous low-budget weekly newspapers catering for particular suburbs or for subcultures including the gay and farming communities and various ethnic groups. Ownership of New Zealand newspapers is dominated by Fairfax New Zealand and APN News & Media with Fairfax having 48.6% of the daily newspaper circulation.

Dailies

Publication	City	Circulation (2010)
The New Zealand Herald	Auckland	&10000000000170677000000170,677
The Dominion Post	Wellington	&1000000000008404700000084,047
The Press	Christchurch	&1000000000008101700000081,017
Waikato Times	Hamilton	&1000000000004009600000040,096
Otago Daily Times	Dunedin	&1000000000003909700000039,097
The Southland Times	Invercargill	&1000000000002806600000028,066
Hawke's Bay Today	Hastings	&1000000000002468200000024,682
Taranaki Daily News	New Plymouth	&1000000000002300500000023,005
Bay of Plenty Times	Tauranga	&1000000000002035200000020,352
Manawatu Standard	Palmerston North	&1000000000001700000000017,000
The Nelson Mail	Nelson	&1000000000001560900000015,609
The Timaru Herald	Timaru	&1000000000001401000000014,010
The Northern Advocate	Whangarei	&1000000000001329200000013,292
Wanganui Chronicle	Whanganui	&1000000000001121700000011,217
The Daily Post	Rotorua	&1000000000001029400000010,294
Gisborne Herald	Gisborne	&100000000000077050000007,705
Wairarapa Times-Age	Masterton	&100000000000065660000006,566
Ashburton Guardian	Ashburton	&100000000000052430000005,243
Greymouth Star	Greymouth	&100000000000042840000004,284
Oamaru Mail	Oamaru	&100000000000028690000002,869
Daily Chronicle
The Marlborough Express

National weekly papers

• Herald on Sunday
• The Sunday Star-Times
• New Zealand Truth

Free newspapers

Free newspapers, often called 'community newspapers' in New Zealand. Most are weekly and published in tabloid format:

• Hamilton Press
• Raglan Chronicle
• Te Awamutu Courier
• The Kaikoura Star
• South Waikato News
• Waitomo News
• The News (also called The Lakes District and Central Otago News), Alexandra
• The Star (Dunedin)
• The Courier (Ashburton)
• The Ensign (Gore)
• Southern Rural Life
• Southland Express (Invercargill)
• The Courier (Timaru)

Magazines

Main category: New Zealand magazines

• Australian Women's Weekly NZ Edition
• Challenge Weekly
• New Zealand Listener
• New Zealand Woman's Weekly

Historic

Note: these newspapers are listed by decade of first issue.

1830s

• New Zealand Gazette

1840s

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

1850s

• Daily Southern Cross
• Hawke's Bay Herald
• Lyttelton Times
• New Zealand Chronicle
• Otago Witness
• Taranaki Herald

1860s

• The Evening Post
• Evening Star
• Grey River Argus
• Nelson Evening Mail
• The Star
• Timaru Herald
• Tuapeka Times
• Wellington Independent
• West Coast Times

1870s

• Bay of Plenty Times
• North Otago Times
• Southland Times
• Timaru Herald
• Wanganui Chronicle
• Wanganui Herald
• West Coast Times

1890s

• Paeroa Gazette

1910s

• Maoriland Worker, aka the Standard ^sic
• Industrial Unionist

External links

• Papers Past at the National Library of New Zealand - a digitised collection of some historical news papers

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