New Zealand Listener

New Zealand Listener
Editor Pamela Stirling
Categories Current affairs
Frequency Weekly
Circulation 63,930 (July 2010 – December 2010)[1]
First issue 1939
Company Bauer Media Group
Country New Zealand
Website www.listener.co.nz
ISSN 0110-5787

The New Zealand Listener is a New Zealand magazine which covers a variety of general topics, including current affairs, politics and entertainment.

History

First published in 1939 and edited by Oliver Duff[2] and M. H. Holcroft, it originally had a monopoly on the publication of upcoming television and radio programmes.[3] In the 1980s it lost its monopoly on the publication of upcoming television and radio programmes. Despite the increase in competition since that time, it is still one of the top selling magazines in the country. It was privatised in 1990 and is now published by Bauer Media Group. Its circulation figure as of 2010 is around 63,000.[1] Pamela Stirling has been the editor since 2004.[4]

Since 2004, the Listener has produced an annual New Zealand Listener Power List of the 50 most powerful people in New Zealand.

Notable people to have been published in the Listener include: James K. Baxter, Janet Frame and Maurice Shadbolt.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "New Zealand Listener". About the Listener. Bauer Media Group. 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  2. "Duff, Oliver – Biography". Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand. 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Today in History First issue of NZ Listener published". NZ History. 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  4. Drinnan, John (18 April 2008). "Listener at centre of climate storm". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 14 June 2010.