The Dominion Post

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The Dominion Post

description New Zealand daily newspaper
language English
First edition July 8, 2002
Frequency of publication daily Monday to Saturday
Sold edition 94,600 copies
((2008))
Range 0.243 million readers
((2008))
Editor-in-chief Tim Pankhurst
editor Fairfax Media Limited
Web link stuff.co.nz/dominionpost
ISSN (print)

The Dominion Post is the second largest daily newspaper in New Zealand with a circulation of 94,600 copies (2008) and serves the Wellington area from Wellington to the middle of the North Island of New Zealand. The average number of readers in 2008 was around 243,000.

history

The Dominion Post was formed on July 8, 2002 from the merger of Wellington-based The Evening Post (1865) and The Dominion (1907).

The Evening Post

The Evening Post was founded in Wellington on February 8, 1865 by Henry Blundell (1813-1878), who had worked in Dublin for the Dublin Evening Mail for 27 years . Blundell first came to New Zealand in 1861, initially working for the Lyttelton Times in Christchurch and after his second entry in 1863 for the Otago Daily Times in Dunedin, and in 1864 tried with two of his sons (John and Henry) and his partner David Curle with the Havelock Mail to enter the newspaper market as a publisher. After a few months they gave up and successfully started the Evening Post, the first daily newspaper in Wellington, whose third son Blundell later also entered the business.

The newspaper was the undisputed only daily in Wellington until 1907, but then got competition from The Dominion in later years .

The Evening Post remained in the family until 1972 and was controlled by Blundell Bros Limited . In 1972 the newspaper was bought together with the Dominion by the Independent Newspapers Limited (INL) and finally abandoned after 137 years in 2002 for economic reasons and merged with the Dominion to form The Dominion Post . In 2003 INL sold its entire range of newspapers to the Australian media group Fairfax Media Limited , including The Dominion Post, for over NZ $ 1 billion .

The new owner of the Dominion Post was ultimately no longer interested in the Evening Post's newspaper archive and handed over the newspaper clippings from 1927 to 1977 to the Wellington City Libraries that same year.

The photographs from the holdings of the Evening Post and Dominion covering the period from the mid-1950s to 2000 were given to the Alexander Turnbull Library in November 2002 and March 2003 .

The Dominion

With New Zealand's independence day, September 26, 1907, a second daily newspaper came onto the Wellington newspaper market. The more conservative newspaper was placed by the Wellington Publishing Company for the target group of farmers and business people. Due to this market policy orientation and the fact that The Dominion was a morning newspaper ( The Evening Post was published in the evening), the two newspapers did not initially get in each other's way. Everyone had their own clientele .

In 1927, The Dominion took over the New Zealand Times, which was founded in 1874 and, as a constant observer of the New Zealand government, changed its orientation towards a politically independent newspaper. From that time on, the market for the Evening Post narrowed and the Dominion grew in importance and circulation. In 1964, Rupert Murdoch , Australian media mogul, joined the Dominion .

In 1972 the Blundell Bros Limited and the Wellington Publishing Company were then merged, whereas the two competing papers were published until 2002 (see above).

today

After much controversial discussion about the disappearance of the two historic newspapers, the Dominion Post, in the absence of competition, has the newspaper market in Wellington and its spacious surroundings firmly under control and, thanks to its geographical proximity to parliament and the government, is an expert in New Zealand politics Available. With its Saturday edition of up to 140 pages, the newspaper is not only a political heavyweight on the New Zealand newspaper market.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d The Dominion Post . News Works NZ , archived from the original on January 18, 2016 ; accessed on May 19, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).
  2. Internet News Limited - Independent News Limited (found on January 15, 2009)
  3. The Evening Post clippings collection 1927-1977 - Wellington City Libraries (found January 12, 2009)
  4. ^ The Dominion Post: Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers. 1950–2000 - Timeframes - Alexander Turnbull Library (found on January 15, 2009)