The Timaru Herald

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The Timaru Herald

description New Zealand daily newspaper
language English
First edition June 11, 1864
Frequency of publication daily Monday to Saturday
Sold edition 10,814 copies
((2014))
Range 0.039 million readers
((2014))
Editor-in-chief Davis King
editor Fairfax Media
Web link www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald

The Timaru Herald is a daily regional newspaper in New Zealand . Their catchment area is in the southeastern part of Canterbury with editorial offices in Timaru .

history

The newspaper was founded in 1864 by the English-born newspaper maker Alfred George Horton and the Oxford financier Ingram Shrimpton in the port city of Timaru . With the first edition on June 11, 1864, the paper initially appeared weekly and from 1866 twice a week.

Horton sold the newspaper in 1871 to Herbert Belfield , under whose direction and the editing of Edward Wakefield , a nephew of Edward Gibbon Wakefield , the newspaper gained national importance. Wakefield was also a politician and a member of the House of Representatives . He also used the paper for his political purposes and published the newspaper daily. In 1885 Wakefield left the Timaru Herald because he wanted to get more involved in Wellington and probably also because the newspaper's financial base was not so good. In 1886 Belfield sold the Herald to the politician and investor Joseph Ivess , who already owned several New Zealand newspapers. But Ivess sold the Herald again a year later and Edward George Kerr , who already owned the South Canterbury Times , another newspaper from Timaru , got into the business, having the Timaru Herald as the morning edition and the South Canterbury Times as the evening paper.

In 1901, Kerr discontinued the South Canterbury Times , took over the Timaru Post and made it an evening paper for the Timaru Herald . From 1923 onwards, the Timaru Herald supported the financial difficulties of the Post until it was discontinued in 1939. The Timaru Herald remained in the possession of the Kerr family until the 1980s , but was then sold to the Independent Newspapers Limited (INL). In 2003, the Australian Fairfax Media Group took over the Independent Newspapers with all New Zealand newspapers it owned, including the Timaru Herald .

The newspaper today

The Timaru Herald had an average daily circulation of 10,814 copies in 2014 and continues to appear daily from Monday to Saturday, with the newspaper's editorial staff only covering the local section. The national part is created centrally for all newspapers of the Fairfax Media Group in Wellington .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c The Timaru Herald . News Work NZ , archived from the original on March 2, 2015 ; accessed on May 19, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).
  2. a b c The Timaru Herald . National Library of New Zealand , accessed March 5, 2015 .