The Dominion Post (Wellington)

The Dominion Post, with a circulation of 94,600 copies ( 2008), the second largest daily newspaper of New Zealand and supplies from Wellington Greater Wellington through to the middle of the North Island of New Zealand. The average number of readers over the year was 2008, around 243,000.

History

The Dominion Post was created on 8 July 2002 from the merger of the resident in Wellington The Evening Post (1865) and The Dominion (1907).

The Evening Post

The Evening Post was founded on February 8, 1865 by Henry Blundell ( 1813-1878 ), who had worked for 27 years in Dublin for the Dublin Evening Mail, in Wellington. Blundell came in 1861 for the first time to New Zealand, worked initially for the Lyttelton Times in Christchurch and after his second entry in 1863 for the Otago Daily Times in Dunedin and tried in 1864, with two of his sons ( John and Henry) and his partner David Curle with the Havelock mail enter as an editor in the newspaper market. After a few months they gave up and started with the Evening Post, the first successful daily newspaper in Wellington, in whose operations later, the third son entered Blundell's.

The newspaper was unchallenged until 1907 the only daily newspaper in Wellington, but then got by The Dominion in the later years of competition.

The Evening Post remained until 1972, family owned and has been controlled by the Blundell Bros Limited. In 1972 the newspaper was bought along with the Dominion of the Independent Newspapers Limited ( INL ), and finally abandoned after 137 years in 2002 for economic reasons and merged with the Dominion to The Dominion Post. 2003 INL sold its entire newspaper spectrum for NZ $ 1 billion to the Australian media company Fairfax Media Limited, including The Dominion Post.

The new owner of the Dominion Post had finally lost interest in the newspaper archives of the Evening Post and handed over the newspaper clippings from the years 1927 to 1977 in the same year at the Wellington City Libraries.

The photographs from the holdings of the Evening Post and Dominion over the period from the mid- 1950s were until 2000 in November 2002 and completed in March 2003, the Alexander Turnbull Library.

The Dominion

On the day of Independence of New Zealand, on September 26, 1907, a second daily newspaper came to the Wellington newspaper market. The more conservative oriented paper was placed on the Wellington Publishing Company for the target group of farmers and businessmen. Through this market policy orientation and by the fact that The Dominion was a morning daily newspaper published (The Evening Post appeared in the evening), the two newspapers were initially not in the way. Each had its own clientele.

1927 took over The Dominion Founded in 1874, the New Zealand Times and changed as a permanent observer of the New Zealand Government, its orientation to the politically independent journal. From this time on the market for the Evening Post was narrower and the Dominion grew in importance and circulation. 1964 rose Rupert Murdoch, the Australian media mogul, in the participation of the Dominion.

1972 Blundell Bros Limited and the Wellington Publishing Company was then merged, whereas the two competing sheets were published until 2002 (see above).

Today

After careful controversial discussion about the disappearance of two historic newspapers, has the Dominion Post in the absence of competitive newspaper market in Wellington and its large-scale environment firmly in control and turns on the geographical proximity to the Parliament and to the government as an expert in the field of New Zealand policy available. With its comprehensive up to 140 pages Saturday edition, the newspaper today is not only a political heavyweight on the New Zealand newspaper market dar.

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All sources of information and links in English

• The Dominion Post - Fairfax Media Limited (found on 15 January 2009)
• The Dominion Post NPA - Newspaper Publishers' Association of New Zealand ( on 15 January 2009)
• New Zealand Papers - NAB - Newspaper Advertising Bureau (found on 15 January 2009)
• The Evening Post - Paper Past - National Library of New Zealand ( on 15 January 2009)