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The New Zealand Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand. The Herald has a daily circulation of over 200,000 copies. Despite the name, its main circulation area is the greater Auckland region area. It is also delivered to much of the top half of the North Island including Northland, Waikato and King Country, and the newspaper has plans to go national.
The New Zealand Herald was founded in 1863 by William Chisholm Wilson and published the first edition on November 13 of that year. In 1876, the New Zealand Herald was merged with the The Southern Cross newspaper owned by Alfred Horton. The Southern Cross was first published in 1843.
The Wilson and Horton families were both represented in the company until 1996 when Independent Newspapers PLC of Dublin purchased the Horton family's interest in the company.
A tabloid-sized Sunday edition, the Herald on Sunday, débuted on October 3, 2004, complementing the Saturday broadsheet, the Weekend Herald.
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