Talk:The New Zealand Herald

Political bias

The political bias of the herald is noted by its disclaimer of Matt McCarten's opinion piece as 'from the left' wheras on the opposite page former far right Act party MP Deborah Coddingtodn's opinion is labled as 'senior correspondent'

This anon edit may be a wee bit POV. Political bias in a newspaper should look at the paper as a whole. I have deleted the sentence (it also had bad spelling). Alan Liefting 08:54, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I used to be a news reporter at the Herald, and there was no deliberate political bias in the news reporting. At least, reporters weren't instructed to write their stories with a political bias. Of course, such is not the case in regards to the op-eds (opinion pieces and editorials). They tend to lean to the right, but of course the Herald also employs columnists such as Tapa Misu (sp?) to balance the likes of Garth George.

The general outlook of the editorial managers, including editor Tim Murphy, is right-of-centre, but I think this is just because the managers are generally older, mostly male, and managers. These three factors automatically make folks a little conservative. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.5.253.175 (talk) 10:24, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

I think the Herald has slowly been becoming more conservative. Given that they just described tagging a National supporters house as 'hate-speech' (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11926235) I think it's reasonably fair to describe the paper as having a conservative bias these days.

Moderate?

I haven't read the Herald's commentary pages for some time. I remember Gwynne Dyer, Robert Fisk, and Gordon McLachlen quite prominently featured eregularly - at least when I was still reading it. And it never printed commentary pieces touching on key issues that was from the British centre-right Daily Telegraph. --JNZ (talk) 23:22, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 15:57, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Editing mistake

The fact box wrongly said the Herald has a circulation of 500,000+. This is a mistake - the circulation is 194,000, as the article makes clear. I tried to change this but something went wrong and the statistic vanished. Sorry about that. Hopefully somebody can fix the stuff-up... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.5.253.175 (talk) 10:31, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Fixed now. XLerate (talk) 12:55, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Coat of Arms

I have added the newspaper's coat of arms which was granted in the late 1960s. Cheers. A1 Aardvark (talk) 23:00, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Some proposed changes

Breakout Box | Changes Type: Daily Newspaper (Print and Digital) Editor: Murray Kirkness (weekday), Stuart Dye (weekends) Print circulation: 113,752

Print readership (daily): 442,000 Daily brand audience: 1.04 million Weekly brand audience: 1.66 million

Hayleygillespie (talk) 02:48, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

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ans=no References Print circulation: 113,752 Print readership (daily): 442,000 Daily brand audience: 1.04 million Weekly brand audience: 1.66 million — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hayleygillespie (talk • contribs) 20:49, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

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1. Y The average net circulation was updated.
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3. N The daily and weekly brand audience cannot be implemented because this parameter does not exist within the Newspaper infobox template.

Regards,  Spintendo  04:34, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Page Changes

Information for each section - header in bold- to be added or amended. Some current information is out of date or incorrect - Please see notes for detail.

Introduction For more than over 155 years, The New Zealand Herald has connected Kiwis to the nation, the world, and to what matters to them. The Herald is part of the fabric of New Zealand, growing from a daily newspaper to an award-winning website, mobile site and apps. The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment. It has the largest newspaper circulation of all newspapers in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the daily Herald had declined to 115,213 copies on average by December 2017. Currently it’s print editions connect with more than half a million New Zealanders daily. Its main circulation area is the Auckland region. It is also delivered to much of the north of the North Island including Northland, Waikato and King Country.[2][4] Audiences are engaging with the brand through print, web, social media and the NZ Herald app. The Herald was named the Best Daily News Brand in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific at the 2018 News Media Awards.

Addition to History The Herald is now owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment which was launched in 2014 as the formal merger of the New Zealand division of APN News & Media and The Radio Network.

Notable contributors The NZ Herald has a wide and diverse stable of columnists in news, business, sport, entertainment and lifestyle. Regular columnists in 2018 include Deborah Hill Cone, Rachel Stewart, Mike Hosking, Matt Heath, Liam Dann, Brian Gaynor, Fran O’Sullivan, Lizzie Marvelly, Matthew Hooton, Brian Rudman, Kate Hawkesby, Mary Holm, Gregor Paul, and Kerre McIvor.

Organisational Restructuring In December 2015, the NZ Herald moved to a new multi-purpose newsroom in central Auckland – co-shared with Newstalk ZB and Radio Sport. Journalists are now trained across all platforms.

Titles- The Weekend Herald The Weekend Herald is the best read newspaper in the country, and won back- to- back Newspaper of the Year and Best Weekly Newspaper awards at the 2018 and 2017 Voyager and Canon Media Awards.

Titles - Herald On Sunday It has been the number one read Sunday newspaper in New Zealand since 2015 and currently holds a 60% market share. It is currently edited by Stuart DyeItalic text

Herald Online Website The newspaper's online news service,[22] originally called Herald Online, was established in 1998. It was redesigned in late 2006, and again in 2012 and again in 2016. 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.[23]

An award- winning site, it was named Website of the Year at the Canon Media Awards in 2017 and News Website of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards in 2018

In September 2018, at the News Media Awards in Sydney (previously known as the Panpa Awards), the NZ Herald was named Best Daily News Brand (print and digital) in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

Editors and Columnists The New Zealand Herald: Murray Kirkness Weekend Herald: Stuart Dye Herald on Sunday: Stuart Dye Regular columnists Deborah Hill Cone, Rachel Stewart, Mike Hosking, Matt Heath, Liam Dann, Brian Gaynor, Fran O’Sullivan, Lizzie Marvelly, Matthew Hooton, Brian Rudman, Kate Hawkesby, Mary Holm, Gregor Paul.

Please remove Matt McCarten, Herald on Sunday Brian Rudman Colin James is a past columnist Peter de Graaf (journalist) travel editor located in Kerikeri Hayleygillespie (talk) 03:48, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

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Notes

Online paywall (new! May 2019)

I clicked on an article just now and for the first time came up against a Murdoch/News Corp-style paywall ... “to continue reading... you can subscribe bla bla...” The article was also marked ‘Premium’. This was the first time that this had happened for me and I access the Herald online at least every few days. That the paper has moved to add a paywall to internet access should be in the article, but I don’t know enough about it, haven’t read enough about it to add anything myself. Boscaswell talk 20:22, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

I've added a line to the "Herald Online website" section, with a third-party reference.-gadfium 23:04, 1 May 2019 (UTC)