The ''Waikato Times'' is a daily newspaper published in

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and owned by media business Stuff Ltd. It has a circulation to the greater

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region and became a tabloid paper in 2018. The newspaper has won the title of New Zealand Newspaper of the Year (in the category of up to 30,000 circulation) for two consecutive years: 2018 and 2019.

History

The ''Waikato Times'' started out as the tri-weekly ''Waikato Times and Thames Valley Gazette'', first published by

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on 2 May 1872 in

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but moved to Hamilton in 1875. It was then managed by Messrs Langbridge, Silver, E. M. Edgecumbe, George Edgecumbe and J. S. Bond, who ran a book and stationery shop and changed the Times from tri-weekly to a penny daily in 1896, using Press Association news. For 20 years it competed with the ''Waikato Argus'', until the papers merged in 1915. The paper changed from afternoon to morning production from 5 September 2011, though had changed its Saturday issue in 2003. The ''Times'' had an audited net daily circulation of 11,633 copies at March 2021. Allan Hawkey produces opinion cartoons for the newspaper. Papers Past has 2 May 1872 to 31 December 1892 issues in a searchable form on-line. Hamilton reference library has

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copies of the ''Waikato Argus'' (29 Aug 1896 – 27 December 1902, 23 January 1903 – 30 April 1909, 1 June 1909 – 4 December 1914) and ''Waikato Times'' from 1872. The paper is also included on the

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website.

Community newspapers

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. It is one of many free weekly, or bi-weekly '' Neighbourly'' newspapers, which, since 2014, have been printed by Stuff. They also include ''

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area)'',

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Times''.

Awards and nominations

In 2017, ''Waikato Times'' journalist Aaron Leaman was the joint winner of the Senior nib Health Journalism Scholarship at the Voyager Media Awards. Leaman also won Regional Journalist of the Year at the same event. In 2018, ''Waikato Times'' journalist Ruby Nyika won Student Journalist of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards. The same year, Donna-Lee Biddle was runner-up for the Regional Journalist of the Year Award, and won the award for Feature writing - crime, justice and / or social issues. In 2019, ''Waikato Times'' columnist Max Christoffersen won the Opinion Writing (General) Award at the Voyager Media Awards. Christoffersen had died two months prior to the awards ceremony.

References

External links

''Waikato Times'' website

''Waikato Times'' viewer
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