The ''Auckland Star'' was an evening

daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...

published in

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

, from 24 March 1870 to 16 August 1991. Survived by its Sunday edition, the ''Sunday Star'', part of its name endures in ''

The Sunday Star-Times The ''Sunday Star-Times'' is a New Zealand newspaper published each weekend in Auckland. It covers both national and international news, and is a member of the New Zealand Press Association and Newspaper Publishers Association of New Zealand. ...

'', created in the 1994 merger of the ''Dominion Sunday Times'' and the ''Sunday Star''. Originally published as the ''Evening Star'' from 24 March 1870 to 7 March 1879, the paper continued as the ''Auckland Evening Star'' between 8 March 1879 and 12 April 1887, and from then on as the ''Auckland Star''. One of the paper's notable investigative journalists was

Pat Booth Pat Booth, Lady Lowe (24 April 1943 – 11 May 2009) was an English model, photographer, and author of romantic fiction. Biography Raised in the East End of London by a boxer father and an ambitious mother, Booth posed for such photographers ...

, who was responsible for notable coverage of the Crewe murders and the eventual exoneration of

Arthur Allan Thomas Arthur Allan Thomas (born 2 January 1938) is a New Zealand man who was granted a Royal Pardon and compensation after being wrongfully convicted of the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in June 1970. Thomas was married and farming a property in ...

. Booth and the paper extensively reported on the Mr Asia case. In 1987, the owners of the ''Star'' launched a morning newspaper to more directly compete with ''The New Zealand Herald''. The ''

Auckland Sun Two newspapers published in Auckland, New Zealand, have been called ''The Sun'' or ''The Auckland Sun''. The first ''Sun'' was started on 23 March 1927 by Edward Chalmers Huie, who already ran the ''Christchurch Sun''. It operated in competition ...

'' was affected by the 1987 stock market crash and folded a year later.

Peter Bromhead Peter Bromhead (born 31 May 1933) is a New Zealand commercial interior designer, cartoonist and illustrator. Bromhead was born in Portsmouth, England, on 31 May 1933. He trained as an industrial designer in England and Sweden and migrated to Ne ...

was the

editorial cartoonist An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. Their cartoons are used to convey and question an aspect of daily news or curren ...

from 1973 to 1989, and

Guy Body Guy Keverne Body (born 1967) is a New Zealand cartoonist. Born in Auckland, Body began drawing cartoons while at Takapuna Grammar School: "obscene versions of Sesame Street and The Wombles." At the start of his career, he was advised by the pro ...

also created editorial cartoons. When the newspaper ran editorials in 1991 opposing the work of a gay youth group (Auckland Lesbian and Gay Youth), the paper in turn became subject to strong protests from gay activists. After failing to convince the paper's editor, Frank Haden, to retract his editorials, the activists started a campaign that included discouraging advertisers from booking ads in the paper – a strategy which the activists credit with causing the paper to fold later in the year.

References

External links

''Sunday Star-Times'' website
{{NZ newspaper Defunct newspapers published in New Zealand Mass media in Auckland 1870 establishments in New Zealand 1991 disestablishments in New Zealand Publications established in 1870 Publications disestablished in 1991