The Gisborne Herald
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The Gisborne Herald
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| description | New Zealand daily newspaper |
| language | English |
| First edition | January 5, 1874 |
| Frequency of publication | daily Monday to Saturday |
| Sold edition | 6,412 copies |
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| Range | 0.032 million readers |
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| Editor-in-chief | Jeremy Muir |
| editor | The Gisborne Herald Company Limited |
| Web link | www.gisborneherald.co.nz |
The Gisborne Herald is a daily, independent, regional newspaper in New Zealand . Its catchment area is in the northeastern part of the North Island and it is based in Gisborne . It is one of the few family-owned newspapers in New Zealand.
history
The newspaper was founded on January 5, 1874 under the name Poverty Bay Herald by Messrs Carlile, Dinwiddie, Grigg and Morrison from Napier in competition with the Poverty Bay Standard (1872-1883). It was published twice a week as a morning edition. On September 14, 1877 the sheet was taken over by the Poverty Bay Printing and Publishing Co. and published as evening editions. In June 1878 the publication changed to three times a week and from October 1878 to daily. In 1879 the Herald got into financial difficulties in the wake of the collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank and was taken over in December 1879 by Messrs. Captain T. Chrisp and F. Dufaur . But Dufaur sold his shares in 1883 to W. MacIntosh Muir , who handed them over to his brother Allan Ramsay Muir , who had been a printer for the newspaper since 1880. Muir , whose father was the founder of the New Zealand Gazette and the Wellington Independent , finally took over the newspaper entirely on July 30, 1887. It has been in the Muir family ever since .
On May 7, 1908, The Gisborne Herald Company Limited was founded under which the newspaper continued to be published. In 1938, the Gisborne Herald Company took over the Gisborne Times, founded in 1896, and in 1939 the Poverty Bay Herald was finally renamed The Gisborne Herald .
The newspaper today
The Gisborne Herald had an average daily circulation of 6,412 copies in 2014 and continues to appear as an evening edition, daily Monday through Saturday.
The newspaper is majority owned by the Muir family (51%) through Muir Family Holdings Limited . The rest is held by Essex Castle Limited of Dunedin .
See also
Web links
- The Gisborne Herald - Homepage . The Gisborne Herald Company Limited,accessed March 10, 2015.
- Poverty Bay Herald . National Library of New Zealand ,accessed March 10, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d The Gisborne Herald . News Work NZ , archived from the original on February 6, 2013 ; accessed on May 19, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).
- ↑ a b c Poverty Bay Herald . National Library of New Zealand , accessed March 10, 2015 .
- ^ Joseph Angus Mackay : Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, NI, NZ . Gisborne 1949, Earliest Journals and Their Founders ( online [accessed March 10, 2015]).
- ^ A b The Gisborne Herald Company Limited . Companies Office - Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment , accessed March 10, 2015 .