Otago Daily Times

The Otago Daily Times (ODT ) (est. 1861) is the oldest existing independent newspaper in New Zealand. The newspaper is based in Dunedin and is supplied with an average daily circulation of nearly 42,000 copies ( 2008) the entire Otago region, the southern area of Canterbury and the northern area of Southland. The average number of readers over the year was 2008, around 101,000.

History

It was the Otago Gold Rush (1861-1863), who brought a lot of money and many people to Dunedin and thus blazes the basis for bringing a daily newspaper to appear on the market. In 1861, when the gold rush broke out in Otago, in Dunedin there were two weekly newspapers, the Otago Witness and the Otago Colonist.

Julius Vogel (1835-1899), a talented journalist who came over from Australia in 1861 and found employment with the Otago Colonist. William Cutten (1822-1883) was at this time as a journalist at rival newspaper, the Otago Witness. Both quickly realized the potential for a daily newspaper in the rapidly emerging Dunedin. They joined together, founded in the same year, on 15 November 1861, the Otago Daily Times and went with it as the editor of the first daily newspaper published in New Zealand in history.

Although the daily newspaper The Press of Christchurch, today's competition Journal of the ODT, was founded on May 25, 1861, and is thus the oldest newspaper in South Island may call, the title is legitimately to the Otago Daily Times as The Press, like other newspapers also initially appeared only a week.

Cutten announced in November 1864, the partnership with bird. In its place, Benjamin Farjeon came as a businessman in partnership with bird. Bird, already more interested in politics, was sold in March 1866 along with Farjeon the newspaper, but remained as editor until April 1868 to devote himself entirely to the policy then.

1877, the Otago Daily Times was sold to the owner of the Otago Guardian, the two companies merged with each other, the staff of the Otago Daily Times dismissed, the Otago Guardian ceased on 7 October 1877, and the Otago Daily Times further led as a daily newspaper.

The Otago Daily Times survived to this day as a brand and as an independent daily newspaper all levels and settings on the New Zealand newspaper market. As an independent company (Otago Daily Times Limited ) she succeeded only up to the year 2000. On 30 May 2000, the Otago Daily Times was awarded the Evening Star together as an independent company dissolved and merged with the Allied Press Limited, from that date the owner and editor of the newspaper was. The Evening Star was eventually discontinued in favor of the Otago Daily Times.

Today

The Otago Daily Times served so far still the undisputed readership of the Otago region and parts of Canterbury and Southland, is the from the same home weekly free appearing Star ( advertising paper, interspersed with articles ) supplemented and has teamed up with the online edition of the newspaper, including the fee archive is adjusted to the trend of the market.

But the overpowering, Australia-based media company Fairfax Media Limited, which controls nearly all other major daily newspapers in the New Zealand newspaper market in addition to the New Zealand Herald in Auckland and Otago Daily Times in Dunedin, leaves no stone unturned, even the Otago Daily Times to take away market share. The free weekly published since 2008 Dscene was therefore placed as a mixture of Otago Daily Times and Star with a young and bold acting Packaging in the Dunediner market.