''Hawke's Bay Today'' is a daily compact

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published in

Hastings, New Zealand Hastings (; mi, Heretaunga) is an inland city of New Zealand and is one of the two major urban areas in Hawke's Bay, on the east coast of the North Island. The population of Hastings (including Flaxmere) is (as of with a further people in H ...

and serving Hastings, Napier and the Hawke's Bay region. It is owned by

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. The ''Hawke's Bay Today'' is New Zealand's youngest newspaper, founded on 3 May 1999.

History

''Hawke's Bay Today'' was launched on 3 May 1999, a merger of the dailies the ''

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune The ''Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune'' was a New Zealand newspaper which published from 1937 until 1999. Covering the Hawke's Bay region, it was based in Hastings. History The paper was formed in 1937 from the merger of the Napier-based ''Hawke's Bay ...

'' in Hastings and ''

Napier's Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'' was a newspaper serving Napier and the Hawke's Bay region district of New Zealand. It was established in February 1871 by founding editor, London journalist, Richard Halkett Lord. The paper remained in publication until ...

''. Its earliest incarnation was "a Saturday morning weekly named the ''Hawke's Bay Herald and Ahuriri Advocate'', which first rolled off the presses in Napier on 24 September 1857," according to the company website. The Saturday evening ''Hawke's Bay Today'' was discontinued in 2002 to make way for the new weekend edition published on Saturday mornings. In 2005 the local news content of the ''

Dannevirke News Dannevirke ( " work of the Danes", a reference to Danevirke; mi, Taniwaka, lit= or ''Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua'', the area where the town is), is a rural service town in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of the North Island, New Zealand. It is the maj ...

'' was merged with ''Hawke's Bay Today''. Copies of ''Hawke's Bay Today'' circulating in the

Dannevirke Dannevirke ( "Earthworks (archaeology), work of the Danes", a reference to Danevirke; mi, Taniwaka, lit= or ''Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua'', the area where the town is), is a rural service town in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of the North Island, New ...

area now carry a minimum of four local pages of news and advertising wrapped around the main section of the paper. On 19 March 2012, ''Hawke's Bay Today'' became a morning newspaper. It was previously released in the afternoon. On 25 February 2013, the paper moved from a broadsheet to compact size.

References

''Hawke's Bay Today'' – About Us
– Official website

External links

''Hawke's Bay Today''
– official website Newspapers published in New Zealand Hawke's Bay Region Mass media in Hastings, New Zealand Publications established in 1999 New Zealand Media and Entertainment 1999 establishments in New Zealand {{NewZealand-newspaper-stub