19-471: The Dominion Post can refer to one of two newspapers: The Dominion Post (Wellington) , the former name of a newspaper published in the capital of New Zealand. In April 2023, the newspaper was revamped as The Post . The Dominion Post (Morgantown) , a newspaper in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
38-459: 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 . After the titles were merged , The Dominion Post
57-621: Is a metropolitan daily newspaper published in Wellington , New Zealand. It is owned by media business Stuff Ltd , and formerly by 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
76-814: The New Zealand Press Association . 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. Courtney started in a national role for Stuff in 2018 and was replaced by Eric Janssen . Anna Fifield was appointed editor October 2020. She left in December 2022. Caitlin Cherry took over in February 2023, and Tracy Watkins in July 2023. The following table lists
95-539: The Stuff website . In 2013, she became the group executive editor at Fairfax. Boucher was appointed chief executive officer of Stuff Ltd in August 2017. In 2018, she described her priorities as CEO as to not only make a profit, but provide an internal environment for her people to connect and flourish. Her plan was to diversify the company away from a reliance on publishing revenues, to a range of initiatives that would give
114-489: 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 . The change of name was criticised on both the political left and right. Former Dominion Post editor Tim Pankhurst
133-416: The company "a more stable and sustainable fate". On 25 May 2020, Nine Entertainment agreed to sell Stuff to Boucher for NZ$ 1, with the transaction due to be completed by 31 May. Under the terms of the transaction, Nine will retain some of the proceeds of the sale of wholesale broadband business Stuff Fibre to telecommunications company Vocus Group , and ownership of Stuff's Wellington printing press. At
152-403: The editors: Sinead Boucher Sinead Marie Boucher ( née O'Hanlon ; born 26 June 1970) is a New Zealand journalist and chief executive of Stuff Ltd . On 31 May 2020 she became the owner of Stuff Ltd and in July 2023 became executive chair. Born in 1970 to Sean and Mary O'Hanlon, Boucher moved with her family from Belfast , Northern Ireland, to Christchurch , New Zealand, when she
171-515: The restructuring process, Boucher also reorganised Stuff into three divisions: Stuff Digital, Stuff Masthead Publishing, and Stuff Brand Connections. In September 2023, Boucher confirmed during an interview with Radio New Zealand that Stuff was lobbying for big tech companies such as Facebook owner Meta Platforms and Google to pay for online content produced by Stuff journalists. She also denied claims by The Platform 's founder Sean Plunket that Stuff had received financial support from
190-481: The time of the announcement, she said the purchase gave Stuff "a real chance to take our destiny into our own hands and forge a really bright new future". She also said she intended to pursue giving staff the opportunity to purchase a share in the company , and wanted to enshrine the independence of editorial functions from owners i.e. herself and future share-owners. In early June 2023, Boucher stepped down as CEO and became executive chair and publisher. As part of
209-564: The title The Dominion Post . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Dominion_Post&oldid=1152224631 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Post (New Zealand newspaper) The Post (formerly The Dominion Post ) ( Māori : Te Upoko o Te Ika )
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#1732787321050228-418: The transaction completed on 31 May 2024. This marked the return of the company to New Zealand ownership. 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: 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
247-573: Was about three years old. She was educated at Villa Maria College . After beginning to study law at the University of Canterbury , she dropped out and worked at McDonald's , before returning to Ireland for a time. In 1992, she returned to New Zealand and completed a six-month journalism course at Aoraki Polytechnic in Timaru, where she met her future husband, Mark Boucher. The couple married in 2003 and they have two children. In 1993, Boucher
266-574: Was announced in April 2023 that the paper would be renamed The Post . The change of name has garnered a generally unenthusiastic to negative response. Since July 2023, the editor has been Tracy Watkins. The Dominion Post (commonly referred to as The DomPost ) 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 ,
285-453: Was considered bland and unoriginal by many, with Newstalk ZB describing it as "an act reflective of a complete lack of any creativity". 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. Tim Pankhurst joined The Dominion Post shortly after it was founded to take over from Long. He resigned in February 2009 to head
304-607: Was employed by Fairfax as the North Canterbury branch office reporter for The Press newspaper. In 1999, Boucher moved with her future husband Mark to London, where she worked for the Financial Times on its website FT.com and at Reuters ’ London bureau. Boucher returned to New Zealand in 2003 and was appointed as an assistant editor at The Press , working on the newspaper's website. In 2007, she became Fairfax's first group digital editor, working on
323-501: Was perceived by some as virtue signaling. Morris also pointed out that no Act of Parliament has actually revoked New Zealand's status as a Dominion, which it held from 1907 until the Statute of Westminster was adopted in 1947. The name change was also thought by some to be hypocritical for suggesting an anti-imperialist stance, given the newspaper's historical bias against Māori, for which Stuff apologised in 2020. The name The Post
342-630: Was skeptical, saying it was "short-sighted", given that market research conducted in 2002 indicated that the Dominion Post masthead had better name recognition within Wellington than Coca-Cola's logo. Colin Peacock from RNZ Mediawatch dismissed the name change as "bit of branding" and expected "a bit of blowback" from older readers. The dropping of "Dominion", a word described by legal expert Grant Morris as "not actually that important",
361-748: Was the only daily newspaper in Wellington City. It was printed in Petone, Lower Hutt. INL sold The Dominion Post and all other New Zealand newspapers and most magazines in its catalogue to Fairfax Media in 2003. On 1 February 2018, Fairfax New Zealand Limited changed its name to Stuff Limited (named after its Stuff website, which launched in 2000). In December 2018, Fairfax Media merged with Australia's Nine Entertainment , which acquired its stable of New Zealand newspapers. On 25 May 2020, Nine Entertainment sold its holdings, including The Dominion Post, to Stuff's CEO Sinead Boucher for NZ$ 1, with
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