New Zealand's Truth is a tabloid newspaper published every week in New Zealand from 1905 to 2013.
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The New Zealand Truth was founded in 1905 by John Norton Australia in Wellington, as the New Zealand edition of his Sydney Truth, leading to a sensational blend of sex, crime and radical politics in especially the working class readers.
According to the newspaper historian (and former NZ Truth journalist) Redmer Yska, Norton who was born in England is "a combustible blend of tycoons, journalists, good-hearted and chronic, pisshead falldown." Norton was on hand on June 24, 1905 when the first copy of the Maoriland edition pressed up the press on Luke's Lane, a corridor still running at right angles to Wellington's Courtenay Place. The inaugural editor, Australia Robert Merrick, claimed 40,000 readers in 1907, with circulation in 'every Miner', Gum Diggers 'and Timber-Getter camp'. Three years later Frederick Dawson, a former editor of Queensland and Western Australia edition of Truth, took over. He will remain at work until 1920. Norton temporarily died of alcoholism, in 1916.
The lead author (and, in short, the editor) from 1913 to 1922 was Robert Hogg, a Scottish-born journalist and socialist. According to Yska. Hogg 'transformed the Truth NZ into an enthusiastic and enthusiastic mouthpiece for revolutionary socialism. That will change in 1922 when John Norton's son, Ezra, became owner and owner based in Sydney, appointing a series of New Zealand-based editors. Under populist Norton, 'worker paper' becomes a family-friendly "national newspaper." Norton's most successful editor was Australian Brian Connolly and over 16 years (1935 to 1951), he would return the paper to the roots of the working class, albeit with a conservative barrage.
In 1951, Norton was sold to a New Zealand consortium led by the legal representative of the newspaper James Dunn and former School Scots College friend Cliff Plimmer. Over the next few decades, New Zealand's owners will renew the NZ Truth into the so-called Yska 'a squeaky megaphone for a conservative organization that is holding back the growing political, social and cultural ties to sweep it.'
For several decades, NZ Truth with various famous New Zealand authors, including Robin Hyde in 1928.
As in Australia, NZ Truth takes advantage of unlimited press coverage on divorce cases during the first half century, with court evidence of adultery cases granted lengthy and unlimited treatment. In 1958, a Labor government passed a law restricting coverage to bare bones, removing a significant part of Editorial "bread and butter" Truth's editorial. In 1963, when disclosures about a bitter British political scandal stretched, the circulation audited reached a peak of 240,000, and the weekly claimed as a million Kiwi readers. But the advent of television in the 1960s, the decriminalization of Sunday's newspapers in 1963 and changes in attitudes toward sexual morality associated with 'Swinging Sixties' have shaken the world of NZ Truth's . In 1980, the circulation reached 150,000, but moved to Auckland headquarters in 1982 and 'light' Truth and TV Extra failed. In the mid-1990s, circulation fell to 50,000, and in 2005, when the proud and powerful man was approaching the age of a hundred years, falling into an unthinkable 12,000 positions.
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In late October 2012, Cameron Slater's controversial right-wing blogger was announced as the newspaper's new editor. He says in his new role he will "kick his butt and stick out for the little guy". The first issue was published in November. As a result of his appointment, left-wing columnist Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury quit. Within six months after Slater's appointment was announced that the publication would cease production in July 2013, with Slater claiming that "too far away".
Although it stopped publishing the print version of the website, the publication continued to update its website until May 2014.
References
Further reading
- Truth: Rise and fall of people's paper by Redmer Yska (2010), Craig Potton Publishing, Nelson ISBN 9781877517303
External links
Website- New Zealand Truth
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