The New Zealand Herald

This article is about the newspaper. For the officer of arms, see New Zealand Herald Extraordinary.
"The Herald on Sunday" redirects here. Not to be confused with Herald Sun or Sunday Herald.

The New Zealand Herald
Front page, 5 April 2024
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact (weekdays and Sundays)
Broadsheet (Saturdays)
Owner(s)NZME
Editor-in-chiefMurray Kirkness[1]
EditorMurray Kirkness (weekday)[2]
Founded1863; 161 years ago (1863)
(by William Chisholm Wilson)
HeadquartersAuckland, New Zealand
Circulation100,073 (30 September 2019)[3]
ISSN1170-0777
Websitenzherald.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.[4]

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.[3]

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.[5] The Herald on Sunday is the most widely read Sunday paper in New Zealand.[5]

The paper's website, nzherald.co.nz, is viewed 2.2 million times a week[5] and was named Voyager Media Awards' News Website of the Year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.[6] 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.[6]

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, and Wellington.[7][8]

  1. ^ "NZME managing editor Shayne Currie moves into new role". The New Zealand Herald. 14 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Murray Kirkness appointed new editor of New Zealand Herald". The New Zealand Herald. 18 June 2015.
  3. ^ a b Te, Saing (2021). Media Ownership in New Zealand from 2011 to 2020 (PDF) (Report). Commissioned by the Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) Research Centre. Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  4. ^
    • "Behind the Lines: The New Zealand Herald". Museum of Australian Democracy. Government of Australia. 2022.
    • Wild, Jane (9 August 2017), "NZ Herald glass plate negatives and the man in a hat with a cat", Heritage et AL, Auckland Libraries, Unique collections and resources from Auckland Libraries research centres and heritage collections, This builds on our partnership with the New Zealand Herald getting the newspaper of record microfilmed and digitised ...
    • Sommer, Udi; Rappel-Kroyzer, Or (2 October 2022). "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 of Information Technology & Politics. 19 (4): 393–410. doi:10.1080/19331681.2021.1997869. S2CID 244545175. We comprehensively study the coverage of the outbreak on the internet website of a newspaper of record in each [country]. ... the websites of the New York Times, New Zealand Herald, and the Globe and Mail ...
  5. ^ a b c "NZ Herald audience numbers continue to climb". NZ Herald. 4 January 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  6. ^ a b "'First-rate': NZ Herald wins Website and News App of the Year at Voyager Media Awards". NZ Herald. 4 January 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  7. ^ "More eyes on the Herald as readership rises to 844,000 a day". The New Zealand Herald. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  8. ^ "NAB – New Zealand Herald". Newspaper Advertising Bureau. 2012. Archived from the original on 8 May 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.