New Zealand listener
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New Zealand listener
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| description | Current affairs magazine |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Bauer Media (NZ) Limited |
| First edition | June 30, 1939 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Sold edition | 51,280 copies |
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| Range | 0,201 million readers |
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| Editor-in-chief | Pamela Stirling since 2004 |
| Web link | www.listener.co.nz |
| Article archive | Archives |
| ISSN (print) | 0110-5787 |
The New Zealand Listener is a weekly magazine of current affairs in New Zealand with the topics of politics, culture, literature and entertainment.
history
The New Zealand Listener first appeared on June 30, 1939 with a circulation of 380,000 copies. The magazine, published by the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC), was originally addressed to the licensed radio listeners in the country and was distributed free of charge to the households concerned.
The magazine's first editor-in-chief was Oliver Duff . He received instructions from James Shelley , then director of the National Broadcasting Service , that everything that was written and published in the listener should be related to the station's radio program. But Duff did not follow the instructions, gained journalistic independence and offered a weekly review of cultural and important events in the world, regardless of the radio program. However, he avoided controversy. Duff gave younger editors the opportunity to write in the listener and turned a deaf ear to protests by the station, as the topics he published had less and less to do with the radio program. The approval of his readers confirmed that he had positioned the paper correctly.
In 1990 the listener was sold to New Zealand Magazines , which founded New Zealand Listener (1990) Limited on August 9, 1990 for the magazine . New Zealand Magazines was later bought by APN News & Media .
According to the editor-in-chief Pamela Stirling , who has been in office since 2004 , the New Zealand listener was politically close to the left Alliance Party for a long time .
In January 2014, the Commerce Commission New Zealand (New Zealand competition authority) gave the German Bauer Media Group its consent to take over various New Zealand magazines, including the New Zealand Listener .
literature
- Joyce West : The "New Zealand Listener." - New Radio Magazine . In: New Zealand Government Railways Department (Ed.): The New Zealand Railways Magazine . Volume 14, Issue 4 . Wellington July 1, 1939 ( online [accessed April 5, 2015]).
Web links
- First issue of New Zealand Listener published . In: New Zealand History . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , August 27, 2014,accessed April 5, 2015.
- Radio - First issue of the New Zealand Listener, 1939 . Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, October 13, 2014,accessed April 5, 2015(cover of the first edition of the New Zealand Listener, July 2–8, 1939).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b About The Listener . Bauer Media Group , accessed April 5, 2015 .
- ↑ a b John Drinnan : Media: Listener at center of climate storm . The New Zealand Herald , April 18, 2008, accessed April 6, 2015 .
- ^ New Zealand Listener . Bauer Media (NZ) Limited , accessed April 5, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c First issue of New Zealand Listener published . In: New Zealand History . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , November 30, 2018, accessed May 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Dennis McEldowney : Duff, Oliver . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Volume IV . Allen & Unwin , Wellington 1998 (English, online [accessed April 5, 2015]).
- ^ New Zealand Listener (1990) Limited . New Zealand Companies Office - Ministry of Business, Innovations & Employment , accessed April 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Homepage . Commerce Commission , accessed April 6, 2015 .
- ^ Metro publisher Bauer cleared to buy APN magazines . Scoop , January 24, 2014, accessed April 6, 2015 .