Ashburton Guardian

Last updated

Ashburton Guardian
TypeTri-weekly Newspaper
Format Compact
Owner(s)Ashburton Guardian Company Ltd
Founded1879
Headquarters Ashburton, New Zealand
Circulation 5,555
Website http://www.guardianonline.co.nz//

The Ashburton Guardian is a tri-weekly newspaper published in Ashburton, New Zealand according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation in New Zealand it has a readership of approximately 11,000 and a circulation of 5,554. It was founded in 1879 and has since 1900 been owned by the Bell family.

Contents

History

According to the Newspaper Publishers Association of New Zealand the Ashburton Guardian was first published in September 1879. Almost 11,000 editions of the Ashburton Guardian have been digitised and are available through PapersPast, a service offered by the National Library; those editions cover the period from 1 January 1887 to 31 December 1921. [1]

In 2000, the Ashburton Guardian was the first newspaper in New Zealand to go to a compact format; this was done for the Saturday edition only. In July 2013, the weekday editions also went from broadsheet to compact. [2]

The newspaper was a member of the now defunct New Zealand Press Association.

Ownership

Charles Dixon and Horace Weeks started the newspaper to oppose Joseph Ivess, who had started the Evening News earlier in 1879 in support of his mayoralty campaign. In the following year, they sold the newspaper to Edward George Wright and Hugo Friedlander, the latter of whom had beaten Ivess in the mayoral election. [3] [4] In 1885, they sold the Guardian to William Steward, who himself sold to Robert Bell in 1900. As at 2015, the Ashburton Guardian is still owned by the Bell family, and that makes it one of the few independently-owned daily newspapers in New Zealand. [3]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Print circulation</span> Number of printed copies of a publication

Print circulation is the average number of copies of a publication. The number of copies of a non-periodical publication are usually called print run. Circulation is not always the same as copies sold, often called paid circulation, since some issues are distributed without cost to the reader. Readership figures are usually higher than circulation figures because of the assumption that a typical copy is read by more than one person.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ashburton, New Zealand</span> Town in Canterbury, New Zealand

Ashburton is a large town in the Canterbury Region, on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The town is the seat of the Ashburton District. It is 85 kilometres (53 mi) south west of Christchurch and is sometimes regarded as a satellite town of Christchurch.

<i>Sunday Herald</i> Scottish Sunday newspaper based in Glasgow

The Sunday Herald was a Scottish Sunday newspaper, published between 7 February 1999 and 2 September 2018. Originally a broadsheet, it was published in compact format from 20 November 2005. The paper was known for having combined a centre-left stance with support for Scottish devolution, and later Scottish independence. The last edition of the newspaper was published on 2 September 2018 and it was replaced with Sunday editions of The Herald and The National.

<i>The New Zealand Herald</i> Daily newspaper

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand.

Aberdeen Journals Ltd. is a newspaper publisher based in Aberdeen, Scotland.

<i>Otago Daily Times</i> Daily newspaper published in Dunedin, New Zealand

The Otago Daily Times (ODT) is a newspaper published by Allied Press Ltd in Dunedin, New Zealand. The ODT is one of the country's four main daily newspapers, serving the southern South Island with a circulation of around 26,000 and a combined print and digital annual audience of 304,000. Founded in 1861 it is New Zealand's oldest surviving daily newspaper – Christchurch's The Press, six months older, was a weekly paper until March 1863.

<i>Ottawa Citizen</i> English-language daily newspaper in Ottawa, Canada

The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

<i>The Press</i> New Zealand newspaper

The Press is a daily newspaper published in Christchurch, New Zealand, owned by media business Stuff Ltd. First published in 1861, the newspaper is the largest circulating daily in the South Island and publishes Monday to Saturday. One community newspaper—Northern Outlook—is also published by The Press and is free.

The Timaru Herald is a daily provincial newspaper serving the Timaru, South Canterbury and North Otago districts of New Zealand. The current audited daily circulation is about 14,500 copies, with a readership of about 31,000 people. The paper is owned by media company Stuff Ltd.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cathcart Wason</span> New Zealand and UK politician (1848–1921)

John Cathcart Wason, generally known as Cathcart Wason, was a Scottish farmer and politician who served as a Member of Parliament in two countries: first in New Zealand and then in Scotland. He established Barrhill, a model village, and after the failure of this colonial venture, he returned to Scotland. An unusually large man, he is noted both as an innovative farmer and for having passed his time in the British House of Commons by knitting.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joseph Ivess</span> New Zealand politician

Joseph Ivess was a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He had an association with a large number of newspapers.

<i>The Times Record</i> (Maine) Newspaper published in Brunswick, Maine, United States

The Times Record is an independently-owned daily newspaper published five days a week that covers the Midcoast region of Maine. Operating out of Brunswick, it was founded in 1967 as a result of a merger between two historic newspapers, the Brunswick Record and the Bath Daily Times.

<i>Wairarapa Times-Age</i>

The Wairarapa Times-Age is the regional daily paper for New Zealand's Wairarapa where it is prepared, and published in Masterton.

The Star is a free newspaper published weekly in Dunedin, New Zealand by Allied Press since 1979. It is the successor to The Evening Star, which was the city's daily evening newspaper from June 1863 to 1979.

<i>i</i> (newspaper) British daily newspaper

The i is a British national newspaper published in London by Daily Mail and General Trust and distributed across the United Kingdom. It is aimed at "readers and lapsed readers" of all ages and commuters with limited time, and was originally launched in 2010 as a sister paper to The Independent. It was later acquired by Johnston Press in 2016 after The Independent shifted to a digital-only model. The i came under the control of JPIMedia a day after Johnston Press filed for administration on 16 November 2018. The paper and its website were bought by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) on 29 November 2019, for £49.6 million. On 6 December 2019 the Competition and Markets Authority served an initial enforcement order on DMGT and DMG Media Limited, requiring the paper to be run separately pending investigation.

The Otago Witness was a prominent illustrated weekly newspaper in the early years of the European settlement of New Zealand, produced in Dunedin, the provincial capital of Otago. Published weekly, it existed from 1851 to 1932. The introduction of the Otago Daily Times, followed by other daily newspapers in its circulation area, led it to focus on serving a rural readership in the lower South Island, where poor road access prevented newspapers being delivered daily. It also provided an outlet for local fiction writers. It is notable as the first newspaper to use illustrations and photographs and was the first New Zealand newspaper to provide a correspondence column for children, which was known as "Dot's Little Folk". Together with the Auckland-based Weekly News and the Wellington-based New Zealand Free Lance it was one of the most significant illustrated weekly New Zealand newspapers in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hugo Friedlander</span> New Zealand businessman and politician

Hugo Friedlander was a New Zealand businessman, local politician, and horse breeder from Ashburton.

<i>The New Day</i> (newspaper)

The New Day was a British compact daily newspaper published by Trinity Mirror, launched on 29 February 2016. It was mainly aimed at a middle-aged female audience, and was politically neutral. The editor, Alison Phillips, intended readers to get through the newspaper in under 30 minutes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mayor of Ashburton</span>

The Mayor of Ashburton officiates over the Ashburton District of New Zealand's South Island. The district is administered by a district council. From 1878 until the 1989 local government reforms, the area was administered by a borough council. Neil Brown is the current mayor of Ashburton; he was elected in the 2019 local elections.

References

  1. "The Ashburton Guardian". PapersPast. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  2. Lammers, Coen (29 July 2013). "Ashburton Guardian goes compact Monday to Friday" (PDF) (Press release). Ashburton: Ashburton Guardian. News Works NZ. Retrieved 6 June 2015.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. 1 2 "Ashburton Guardian". PapersPast. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  4. McCausland, Ray. "Hugo Friedlander". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture and Heritage . Retrieved 23 April 2017.