The ''Sunday Star-Times'' is a New Zealand newspaper published each weekend in
Auckland
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. It covers both national and international news, and is a member of the
New Zealand Press Association and Newspaper Publishers Association of New Zealand. It is owned by media business
Stuff Ltd, formerly the New Zealand branch of
Australian media company
Fairfax Media
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.
In 2019, the newspaper won the title of New Zealand Newspaper of the Year.
History
The ''Sunday Star-Times'' was first published in March 1994 after the merger of ''
The Dominion Sunday Times'' and ''The Sunday
Star
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''. The ''Dominion Sunday Times'' started in 1965 and was renamed to ''Sunday Times'' (1976–1981), ''New Zealand Times'' (1981–1986), New Zealand Sunday Times (1986–1987), then reverted to its original (1987–1992), before it was known as the ''Sunday Times'' (1992–1994).
Jenny Wheeler was the editor for six and a half years. The paper was edited by Cate Brett from 2003 until 2008 when she took up a post at the
New Zealand Law Commission. She was replaced by Australian
Mitchell Murphy
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who, in 2010, was promoted to the role of publisher for Fairfax Sundays and in 2012 to executive director of publishing. In May 2010 David Kemeys was appointed editor, reporting directly to Murphy.
Jonathan Milne was editor of the Sunday Star Times from 2014 to June 2019.
The paper has a focus on providing an entertaining Sunday read with a mixture of news, features and celebrity gossip.
Regular contributors for the ''Sunday Star-Times'' include
Rosemary McLeod,
Michael Laws, and Finlay MacDonald.
Steve Braunias
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Early life and family
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was a regular columnist for the Sunday magazine part of the newspaper, but was sacked in early 2011 for exchanging abusive emails with a Gisborne police prosecutor named Claire Stewart.
On 21 October 2018, the paper changed format from
broadsheet to
tabloid
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* ''Ta ...
, following Stuff's conversion of their 9 daily papers in April that year.
Māori Party claims
In 2004 the paper published a front-page story claiming that the
New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
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was spying on members of the newly formed
Māori Party. The article was co-authored by
Nicky Hager
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. A government inquiry led by the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security later rejected these claims in April 2005, and the paper had to publish a front page apology to its readers when a government investigation found the claims to be unsubstantiated.
Awards and nominations
See also
*
List of print media in New Zealand
References
External links
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Newspapers published in New Zealand
Mass media in Auckland
Sunday newspapers
Publications established in 1994
1994 establishments in New Zealand