''The Dominion Post'' is a metropolitan daily

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published in

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, New Zealand. It is owned by media business Stuff Ltd, formerly the New Zealand branch of

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. Weekday issues are now in tabloid format, and its Saturday edition is in

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format. Since 2020 the editor has been

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History

''The Dominion Post'' was created in July 2002 when

Independent Newspapers Limited Independent Newspapers Limited (INL) was a newspaper publisher in New Zealand. Started as the Wellington Publishing Company in 1906 to publish ''The Dominion'', it began taking over other newspapers in the 1970s and was renamed Independent New ...

(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'', 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 ''

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''. ''The Evening Post'' was not so widely distributed, but had a much greater circulation than ''The Dominion''. INL sold ''The Dominion Post'' and all other New Zealand newspapers and most magazines in its catalogue to

in 2003. ''The Dominion Post'' is the only pay-and-read local newspaper in Wellington City. It is printed in Petone, Lower Hutt.

Editors

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 the

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. 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

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was appointed editor October 2020 after Janssen's departure. She left in December 2022. The new editor Caitlin Cherry will take over in February 2023. The following table lists the editors of ''The Dominion Post'':

Awards and nominations received

Awards and nominations for journalists employed by ''The Dominion Post''

References

External links

''The Dominion Post'' homepage at stuff.co.nz
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