List of print media in New Zealand

This is a list of print media in New Zealand. New Zealand once had several daily newspapers in each major city, usually a morning paper (which had a wider circulation into rural areas) and an evening paper) As in other countries, the print medium has been damaged by radio, then television and then the internet. The major cities now have only one daily newspaper.

There are no truly national newspapers, although The New Zealand Herald and to a lesser extent The Post are both available outside their core areas. The four main centres of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin are served by The New Zealand Herald, The Post, The Press, and the Otago Daily Times, respectively. There are also several weekly newspapers with a national scope, including three tabloids, the Sunday News, Sunday Star-Times and the Herald on Sunday. There are also numerous low-budget and free weekly newspapers catering for particular suburbs or for subcultures including the gay and farming communities and various ethnic groups.

The ownership of New Zealand newspapers is dominated by Stuff and NZME, with Stuff having 48.6 per cent of the daily newspaper circulation.

Weekly papers

 * Herald on Sunday
 * National Business Review
 * Oamaru Mail
 * The Star (Christchurch)
 * The Star (Dunedin)
 * Sunday News
 * The Sunday Star-Times
 * The Farmers Weekly NZ
 * The Weekend Sun

Free newspapers
Free newspapers are often called 'community newspapers' in New Zealand. Most are published weekly, in tabloid format.


 * Auckland City Harbour News, Auckland
 * Central Leader, Auckland
 * Clutha Leader, Balclutha
 * Cook Strait News
 * East & Bays Courier, Auckland
 * Eastern Courier, Auckland
 * The Ensign, Gore
 * The Flagstaff, Devonport, Auckland
 * Hamilton News
 * Hamilton Press
 * Hibiscus Matters, Orewa
 * Horowhenua Chronicle
 * Mahurangi Matters, Warkworth
 * Manukau Courier, Auckland
 * North Shore Times, Auckland
 * Northern News, Kaikohe
 * Raglan Chronicle
 * River City Press, Whanganui
 * Rodney Times, Auckland
 * The Star, Christchurch
 * The Star, Dunedin
 * The Weekend Sun, Bay of Plenty
 * Western Leader, Auckland
 * The Hutt News, Lower Hutt


 * Waiheke Weekender, Waiheke Island


 * Contact, Wellington

Magazines

 * Australian Women's Weekly NZ Edition
 * Investigate
 * Metro
 * New Zealand Fishing News
 * New Zealand Listener
 * New Zealand Woman's Weekly
 * North & South
 * Capital Magazine (Wellington)

Student magazines

 * Canta – University of Canterbury
 * Craccum – University of Auckland
 * Critic Te Ārohi – University of Otago
 * Debate – Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
 * Gyro – Otago Polytechnic
 * Nexus – University of Waikato
 * Salient – Victoria University of Wellington
 * Massive - Massey University

Literary magazines

 * Landfall
 * Sport
 * takahē

Magazines

 * Phoenix (1932)
 * Spilt Ink (1932–1937)
 * New Zealand Mercury (1933–1936)
 * Oriflamme and Sirocco (1933)
 * Tomorrow (1934–1940)
 * Women To-day (1936–1939)
 * Book (1942–1947)
 * Arena (1942–1975)
 * New Zealand New Writing (1943–1945)
 * Here and Now (1948–1957)
 * Junior Digest (1945–1965)
 * Te Ao Hou / The New World (1952–1974)
 * The New Zealand Charity and Legal Gazette (1975–2016)
 * Out! (1976–2009)

Newspapers
Note: these newspapers are listed by decade of first issue. For place and years published see Papers Past.


 * 1830s
 * New Zealand Gazette


 * 1840s
 * Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle
 * New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian
 * New Zealander


 * 1850s
 * The Colonist
 * Daily Southern Cross
 * Hawke's Bay Herald
 * Lyttelton Times
 * New Zealand Chronicle
 * Otago Witness
 * Taranaki Herald


 * 1860s
 * Bruce Herald at Milton, Otago
 * The Christchurch Star
 * The Evening Post
 * Evening Star
 * Grey River Argus
 * Nelson Evening Mail
 * The Timaru Herald
 * Tuapeka Times
 * The Wellington Independent
 * West Coast Times


 * 1870s
 * Auckland Star
 * Bay of Plenty Times
 * The New Zealand Times (Wellington; 1874–1927)
 * North Otago Times
 * Southland Times
 * Timaru Herald
 * Wanganui Chronicle
 * Wanganui Herald


 * 1890s
 * Paeroa Gazette
 * The Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser 1901-1936


 * 1910s
 * Industrial Unionist
 * Maoriland Worker, aka the Standard


 * 1930s
 * Zealandia


 * 1990s
 * New Zealand Russian Monthly (published by Russian association of Auckland, this newspaper published its final edition in November 2000)