Rotorua Daily Post
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Rotorua Daily Post
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| description | New Zealand daily newspaper |
| language | English |
| First edition | June 6, 1885 |
| Frequency of publication | daily Monday to Saturday |
| Sold edition | 8,222 copies |
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| Range | 0.039 million readers |
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| Editor-in-chief | Kim Gillespie |
| editor | NZME. Publishing Limited |
| Web link | www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz |
The Rotorua Daily Post is a daily regional newspaper in New Zealand . Its catchment area is on the North Island in the southern part of the Bay of Plenty region and in the eastern part of the Waikato region . The newspaper is based in Rotorua .
history
The Rotorua Daily Post has its origins in the Hot Lakes Chronicle, founded in 1885 . The paper, which appeared for the first time on June 6, 1885, was published weekly, although the start of the newspaper was not without problems. In 1895 the Scottish newspaper maker Francis F. Watt bought himself a partner in the newspaper and later took over the Chronicle completely. After his death in 1890, his wife continued to run the newspaper business until the Scottish businessman David Gardner took over the newspaper in 1902 . In 1916 Gardner merged the two newspapers Hot Lakes Chronicle and Rotorua Times , and after his father's death in 1918, his son published the newspaper as a daily evening paper under the name Rotorua Chronicle .
In 1931 the Rotorua Chronicle was taken over by the Bay of Plenty Publishing Company , which at the time was the Whakatane County Press . The new owner renamed the paper the Rotorua Morning Post and had the newspaper published again in the morning. In 1947, the morning was dropped from the name, as the frequency of publication was changed again and moved to the afternoon, so the name was Rotorua Post . In 1960 the paper was renamed again and was called The Daily Post . The last renaming for the time being took place on March 11, 2013, when the newspaper got its current name from then on.
There is probably no newspaper in New Zealand that has been renamed as often in its long history as the Rotorua Daily Post .
Group affiliation
The Rotorua Daily Post is owned by the New Zealand NZME. Publishing Limited , which was renamed APN Holdings NZ Limited in January 2015 . The NZME. Publishing Limited is owned by the Australian company APN News & Media Limited (APN), which is part of the Irish media group Independent News & Media .
The newspaper today
The Rotorua Daily Post had an average daily circulation of 8,222 copies in 2014 and is published as a morning edition, daily Monday through Saturday.
See also
Web links
- Rotorua Daily Post - About us . NZME. Publishing Limited, July 25, 2013,accessed March 16, 2015.
- Hot Lakes Chronicle . National Library of New Zealand ,accessed March 16, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Rotorua Daily Post . News Work NZ , archived from the original on March 2, 2015 ; accessed on May 11, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).
- ↑ a b Hot Lakes Chronicle . National Library of New Zealand , accessed March 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Editorial: Exciting changes ahead . Rotorua Daily Post , February 3, 2013, accessed March 16, 2015 .
- ↑ NZME. Publishing Limited - Shareholdings . Companies Office - Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment , accessed March 16, 2015 .