Wanganui Chronicle

The Wanganui Chronicle is New Zealand's oldest regional appearing daily. The newspaper has its local editorial office in Wanganui.

History

The first edition of the Wanganui Chronicle was published on 18 September 1856. Initially in 14 days of publication, the Journal of cost at the time six pence per issue. In 1853 made ​​Wanganui Wanganui with the record as the first daily newspaper in the country new zealand wide attention. But things lasted only a few weeks and then disappeared forever. In contrast, managed the Wanganui Chronicle for 10 years after its first edition, in 1866 three times per week to be published. 1871 then was converted to the daily publication, which is still the standard to this day. As the founder of the newspaper applies Henry Stokes, the constructed along with a tech savvy teacher of Wanganui Collegiate School, a printing press for the newspaper, thus enabling the first edition.

In the 1860s, the Wanganui Chronicle got competition. Published by the later Prime Minister John Ballance, who appears from the June 4, 1867 Evening Herald grew, renamed in 1876 in Wanganui Herald, as an evening newspaper to a serious threat to the Chronicle until the blade came in the 1880s, even in economic difficulties. The second sheet competitors, the Wanganui Times stayed less than a decade.

1875 took over the Chronicle Gilbert Carson was 1881-1884 the mayor of the city, and later a member of the House of Representatives. As a politician, and his Chronicle Carson became the opponents of John Ballance and his Wanganui Herald. In the 1970s both hands finally came to a hand, but were still issued separately as a morning paper and evening paper. From 1986, when the Wanganui Herald was then set as a daily newspaper, and only appeared under the name Wanganui Midweek as a community paper, was the Wanganui Chronicle, finally, the only daily newspaper of the town and the region.

Today

Since November 1997, the Wanganui Chronicle is owned by the Australian media group APN News & Media, which brought together 1997 16 New Zealand newspapers and media companies under the W & H Newspapers Limited and later renamed APN New Zealand Limited.

On August 21, 2013, the online offering of all to APN News & Media belong to New Zealand newspapers was re-organized and summarized under the leadership of the New Zealand Herald.

The Wanganui Chronicle 2014 belonged to the very few New Zealand newspapers which were able to increase its average daily circulation of 9,820 in 2013 to 10,051 in 2014 to something.