The Timaru Herald

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The Timaru Herald
Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Stuff Ltd
EditorBrooke Black
Founded1864
Headquarters Timaru, New Zealand
Circulation 14,500
ISSN 1170-0920
Website stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald

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.

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History

The Timaru Herald was first founded by Thames Advertiser co-owner Alfred G. Horton in 1864. [1] In 1872, he sold the newspaper to fund a lengthy visit to England. [2] Initially it appeared as a weekly paper, and then in bi- and tri-weekly form, before eventually becoming a daily morning paper from 1875. [3]

By the mid–1870s, the Timaru Herald had become the dominant newspaper in Timaru with its main rival being the South Canterbury Times. [4] In early 1876, the newspaper launched a weekly newspaper, which was later renamed the Geraldine County Chronicle in 1879. The Chronicle ceased publication in late 1884. [5]

By 1885, the journalist T. Triggs worked as an editor for The Herald. When the newspaper was sold in 1886, he left to work for the Christchurch –based The Press. [6] In 1887, the former businessman and mayor Edward G. Kerr acquired the Timaru Herald, bringing both the Herald and South Canterbury Times under his ownership. [7]

The Herald has a history of technical innovation within the New Zealand newspaper industry. At the beginning of the 20th century it became one of the first New Zealand daily papers to replace hand-composed type with Linotype setting. In 1914 the company began New Zealand's first daily rural mail and newspaper delivery service.[ citation needed ]

In 1918, the Timaru Herald acquired the North Otago Times, which it managed until 1930. [8] For a brief period in the 1920s the Herald was edited by John Hardcastle. He was a journalist with the Herald for about 40 years, but he was also a very keen amateur scientist who has subsequently gained fame for his studies on loess and is now seen as a significant pioneer in the study of palaeoclimatology. [9]

By 1957 the Timaru Herald was offering two-colour printing, and in 1988 the paper introduced direct copy entry by journalists.[ citation needed ]

During the late 1980s it was the first newspaper in the South Pacific to employ fully computerised page layout and production systems.[ citation needed ]

In 2005 printing moved to Guardian Print, of Ashburton. In April 2013 printing moved to Fairfax Print & Logistics in Christchurch.[ citation needed ]

Since 30 April 2018, it is published six days a week, Monday to Friday in a tabloid format, and on Saturdays in a broadsheet format, with full process colour printing. It was previously printed in a broadsheet format on Monday to Friday.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ Grant 2018, p. 120.
  2. ↑ Grant 2018, p. 159-161.
  3. ↑ Grant 2018, p. 120, 352-354.
  4. ↑ Grant 2018, p. 355.
  5. ↑ Grant 2018, p. 411.
  6. ↑ Grant 2018, p. 196, 516.
  7. ↑ Grant 2018, p. 355-356.
  8. ↑ Grant 2018, p. 583.
  9. ↑ Smalley, Ian (17 July 2014). "Observant recorder of nature". The Timaru Herald. Stuff. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.

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