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''The New Zealand Herald'' is a daily broadsheet Newspaper published in Auckland , New Zealand . The ''Herald'' has a daily circulation of over 200,000 copies. Despite the name, its main circulation area is the greater Auckland region area. It is also delivered to much of the top half of the North Island including Northland , Waikato and King Country . The newspaper plans to extend its reach nationally. ''The New Zealand Herald'' was founded in 1863 by William Chisholm Wilson and published its first edition on November 13 of that year. In 1876 , ''The New Zealand Herald'' was merged with the newspaper ''The Southern Cross'' owned by Alfred Horton . ''The Southern Cross'' was first published in 1843 . The Wilson and Horton families were both represented in the company until 1996 when Sir Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media Group of Dublin purchased the Horton family's interest in the company. In August 2003, the paper dismissed cartoonist Malcolm Evans , whose cartoons often commented on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. One cartoon by Evans which some readers found offensive depicted the word "APARTHEID", spelled using a Star Of David in place of the second "a", scrawled across the wall of a war-wracked neighborhood. The newspaper later said it regretted publishing the cartoon. Evans claims that the editor-in-chief, Gavin Ellis , demanded he stop drawing about the conflict, an order that he refused, leading to his termination. Ellis denies the allegation. These events happened in the same week the paper published a revisionist article by Canterbury University academic Doctor Fudge that Canterbury University had suppressed. It was also reported by the liberal Israeli newspaper Harretz that at that time Ellis was interviewed by the Israeli ambassador to Australia. A tabloid-sized Sunday edition, the ''Herald on Sunday'', was first published on October 3 2004 , complementing the Saturday broadsheet, the ''Weekend Herald''. NOTES |
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