The ''Marlborough Express'' is a newspaper serving the

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area of New Zealand. Its headquarters are in Blenheim and has been published there since 1866.

Ownership

The ''Marlborough Express'' was set up by the printer, journalist and editor

Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. The ''Oxford ...

and his brother Thomas. They arrived in Blenheim in April 1866 and intended to set up weekly that served all of

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, in opposition to the parochial papers serving Blenheim (''Wairau Record'') and Picton (''Marlborough Press'') already. Johnson sold the newspaper to Smith Furness and James Boudy in 1879. It remained in the Furness family until 1998, when it was acquired by

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(INL).

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, now Stuff Ltd, bought the INL mastheads in 2003.

History

The ''Marlborough Express'' was published from 1866 as a weekly. It became a daily in 1880 and took over its rivals, the ''Marlborough Times'' in 1895, and the ''Marlborough Press'' in 1948. The paper made headlines nationally in 2013 when it published a cartoon by

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about the Government's introduction of food in schools that was widely criticised as "racist". The editor of the paper defended the cartoon's publication, saying it was meant to generate discussion. Race relations commissioner

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called it "out of line". The current editor is Ian Allen, who was appointed in 2018.

References

External links

''Marlborough Express'' (online edition)Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2011-04-01
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