The New Zealand Herald
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Compact (weekdays and Sundays) Broadsheet (Saturdays) |
| Owner(s) | NZME |
| Editor-in-chief | Murray Kirkness |
| Editor | Murray Kirkness (weekday) |
| Founded | 1863 (by William Chisholm Wilson) |
| Headquarters | Auckland |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Circulation | 100,073 (as of 30 September 2019) |
| ISSN | 1170-0777 |
| OCLC number | 11123090 |
| Website | nzherald.co.nz |
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.
It has the largest newspaper circulation in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the daily Herald had declined to 100,073 copies on average by September 2019.
The Herald's publications include a daily paper; the Weekend Herald, a weekly Saturday paper; and the Herald on Sunday, which has 365,000 readers nationwide. The Herald on Sunday is the most widely read Sunday paper in New Zealand.
The paper's website, nzherald.co.nz, is viewed 2.2 million times a week and was named Voyager Media Awards' News Website of the Year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. In 2023, the Weekend Herald was awarded Weekly Newspaper of the Year and the publication's mobile application was the News App of the Year.
Its main circulation area is the Auckland region. It is also delivered to much of the North Island, including Northland, Waikato, King Country, Hawke's Bay, Bay of Plenty, Manawatū, and Wellington.