The Southland Times
| The Southland Times
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| description | New Zealand daily newspaper |
| language | English |
| First edition | November 12, 1862 |
| Frequency of publication | daily Monday to Saturday |
| Sold edition | 28,000 copies |
| ((Jul. – Dec. 2010), Mon. – Fri.) | |
| Range | 0.064 million readers |
| ((Jul. – Dec. 2010), Mon. – Fri.) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Fred Tulett |
| editor | Fairfax Media |
| executive Director | Gareth Codd |
| Web link | www.southlandtimes.co.nz |
| ISSN (print) | 0112-9910 |
The Southland Times , which has been part of the Australian Fairfax Media Group since 2003 , is a regional daily newspaper for the southern part of the South Island of New Zealand . Based in Invercargill the region Southland covering, the newspaper is with individual local spending in Alexandra , Cromwell , Queenstown and Wanaka issued. It occurs in individual parts of Otago in direct competition with the Otago Daily Times , which is based in Dunedin and is widespread in Otago.
history
The history of the Southland Times goes back to the year 1862, when Messrs John T. Downes , Gerard George Fitzgerald and Charles Reynolds founded The Invercargill Times on November 12, 1862 . The newspaper was thus the conservative answer to the liberal The Southern News , which had been founded a year earlier and was later renamed the Southland Daily News . The Invercargill Times existed until March 7, 1864, when a fire destroyed the offices. When the newspaper reappeared in June, it was renamed The Southland Times, also to support its claim to be a newspaper for the entire south. After the competition had published their newspaper daily, the Southland Times followed suit with its daily publication in 1875. The weekly edition of the newspaper for the rural areas remained and provided the farmers in the country with weekly news from 1866 to 1933.
After the newspaper had undergone several changes of ownership, Robert Gilmour bought shares in the company in 1879 , became director, publisher of the paper in 1888 and finally took over the newspaper entirely in 1896. Under his hand, the newspaper continued to develop successfully and remained in the possession of Gilmour Family until 1984 when it was sold to Independent Newspapers Limited (INL). In 2003 it was then sold to the Australian John Fairfax Holdings along with all of the other New Zealand newspapers that were owned by Independent Newspapers Limited .
As the southernmost daily newspaper in the country, the Southland Times was the technology leader in New Zealand in terms of newspaper production in the 1900s, 1970s and 1980s. It was one of the first newspapers to use rotary printing presses in 1908 and later one of the first newspapers to switch to computer-aided newspaper production. The Gilmour family's newly built newspaper house, which was completed in 1908, and the investments in new technologies of the time strengthened the company against its competitors. The Southland Times took over the Southland Daily News in 1967 , and a year later also brought out an evening edition, which was discontinued eight years later.
today
Since 1968 the Southland Times has been the only daily newspaper published in Invercargill and Southland. The Southland Times building, which still houses the newspaper's offices, was listed on June 23, 2011 in the New Zealand Historic Places Trust 's Category II Listed Buildings .
See also
Web links
- The Southland Times . National Library of New Zealand,accessed August 7, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e The Southland Times . NZ Audit Bureau of Circulations , archived from the original on September 7, 2001 ; accessed on February 4, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).
- ↑ a b c d The Southland Times . National Library of New Zealand , accessed August 7, 2011 .
- ^ Catherine Gilmour : Gilmour, Robert (1831-1902) . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , accessed August 7, 2011 .
- ^ Karen Astwood : Southland Times Building, Invercargill . In: New Zealand Historic Places Trust (Ed.): Southland Times Building Historic Place Report . Wellington February 22, 2001 (English).
- ^ Southland Times Building . New Zealand Historic Places Trust , accessed August 7, 2011 .