Fairfax New Zealand

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Stuff Ltd
Subsidiary
Industry Publishing
Headquarters Wellington, New Zealand
Parent Fairfax Media Limited
Website stuff.co.nz

Stuff Limited, named Fairfax New Zealand Limited until 1 February 2018, [1] is a news media company operating in New Zealand, and is a subsidiary of Australia's Fairfax Media Limited.

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Contents

Stuff operates nine daily newspapers throughout New Zealand, as well as one weekly paper, the Sunday Star-Times . Magazines published include TV Guide . Its news website is Stuff.co.nz. The print publications and Stuff.co.nz previously belonged to Independent Newspapers Limited (INL), before they were sold to Fairfax in 2003.

The Sunday Star-Times is a New Zealand newspaper published each weekend by the Fairfax group in Auckland. It covers both national and international news, and is a member of the New Zealand Press Association and Newspaper Publishers Association of New Zealand.

TV Guide is a New Zealand magazine that lists the television programs for each week. The magazine is part of Fairfax New Zealand. The headquarters is in Auckland.

Stuff.co.nz news website published by Fairfax Digital

Stuff.co.nz is a New Zealand news website published by Stuff Limited, a subsidiary of Australian company Fairfax Media Ltd. Stuff hosts the websites for Fairfax's New Zealand newspapers, including the country's second- and third-highest circulation daily newspapers, The Dominion Post and The Press, and the highest circulation weekly, The Sunday Star-Times. It is also a web portal to other Fairfax websites. As of March 2019, the website had an Alexa rank in New Zealand of 7.

Closure or sale of mastheads

Stuff announced in February 2018 that it would close or sell 28 of its smaller community and rural mastheads. The 28 titles are:

See also

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References

  1. "Stuff's journey from newspaper pioneer to website to 'portfolio' business". Stuff. 1 February 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  2. "Fairfax to sell or close 28 print mastheads". The New Zealand Herald. 21 February 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.