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The Post (New Zealand newspaper)

Newspaper published in Wellington, New Zealand

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The Post

The 2 March 2012 front page of The Dominion Post
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid (Mon–Fri) Broadsheet (Saturday)
Owner(s)	Stuff Ltd
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Wellington, New Zealand
Circulation	36,652 (2019)[1]
ISSN	1175-9488
Website	Official website

The Post (formerly The Dominion Post) is a metropolitan daily newspaper published in Wellington, New Zealand. It is owned by media business Stuff Ltd, formerly the New Zealand branch of Australian media company Fairfax Media. Weekday issues are now in tabloid format, and its Saturday edition is in broadsheet format.

The Dominion Post was created in July 2002 with the merger of two metropolitan broadsheet newspapers, The Evening Post and The Dominion. It was announced in April 2023 that the paper would be renamed The Post.

Since 2023, the editor has been Caitlin Cherry.

History

The Dominion Post, 2002–2023

The Dominion Post was created in July 2002 when Independent Newspapers Limited (INL) amalgamated two Wellington printed and published metropolitan broadsheet newspapers, The Evening Post, an evening paper first published on 8 February 1865, and The Dominion, a morning paper first published on Dominion Day, 26 September 1907.

The Dominion was distributed throughout the lower half of the North Island, as far as Taupo, where it met with Auckland's ambitiously named The New Zealand Herald. The Evening Post was not so widely distributed, but had a much greater circulation than The Dominion.

INL sold The Dominion Post and all other New Zealand newspapers and most magazines in its catalogue to Fairfax Media in 2003.

The Dominion Post is the only pay-and-read local newspaper in Wellington City. It is printed in Petone, Lower Hutt.^{[citation needed]}

The Post, 2023–present

On 14 April 2023, it was announced that the paper would change its name by dropping "Dominion" from the title. The editor, Caitlin Cherry, laid out the rationale:^[2]

As an independently owned New Zealand company, we are under no-one’s dominion. New Zealand’s status as a dominion ended in 1945 when we joined the United Nations. It’s time for the word to go.

On 27 April 2023, Stuff confirmed that The Dominion Post would adopt its new name The Post on 29 April. Stuff also announced that it would launch a new subscription-based website for The Post that would co-exist with the free Stuff news website.^[3]

Editors

Richard Long had been the editor of The Dominion for ten years and was appointed the inaugural editor for The Dominion Post, but resigned shortly after the newspaper merger.^[4] Tim Pankhurst joined The Dominion Post shortly after it was founded to take over from Long. He resigned in February 2009 to head the New Zealand Press Association.^[5] Bernadette Courtney, who had previously been assistant editor at The Dominion Post and had gone to become editor of the Manawatu Standard, was appointed to replace Pankhurst.^[6] Courtney started in a national role for Stuff in 2018^[7] and was replaced by Eric Janssen.^[8]

Anna Fifield was appointed editor October 2020 after Janssen's departure.^[9][10] She left in December 2022.^[11] The new editor Caitlin Cherry took over over in February 2023.^[12]

The following table lists the editors of The Dominion Post:

Name	Portrait	Term of office
Richard Long		2002
Tim Pankhurst		2002	2009
Bernadette Courtney		2009	2018
Eric Janssen		2018	2020
Anna Fifield		2020	2022
Caitlin Cherry		2023

Awards and nominations received

Awards and nominations for journalists employed by The Post

References

External links

• The Dominion Post homepage at stuff.co.nz
• Today's The Post front page at the Freedom Forum website