The Northern Advocate

The Northern Advocate

Type	Daily/Evening (except Sunday)
Owner	APN News & Media
Editor	Craig Cooper
Founded	1875[1]
Headquarters	Whangarei
Circulation	14987[2]
ISSN	1170-0769
Official website	http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/index.cfm

The Northern Advocate is the regional daily paper for the city of Whangarei and the Northland Region.

History

The Whangarei Comet and Northern Advertiser was founded in 1875 as a weekly paper by George Edwin Alderton and, despite a small population which lead to predictions the paper would "would go up like a comet, and come down like a stick",^[3] the paper flourished and within two years had expanded to 12 pages and become the Northern Advocate and General Advertiser, with a small section printed in Maori.^[4] The paper began daily publication in 1902.

Other publications

The Whangarei Report

The Whangarei Report is a weekly tabloid community paper, delivered free on Thursdays to all homes south of the Brynderwyns, across to Dargaville and north to Oakura, Northland.^[5]

The Bay Report

The Bay Report is a weekly tabloid community paper, delivered free on Thursdays to all homes in Kerikeri, the Bay of Islands area down to Moerewa in the south.^[6]

External links

• The Northern Advocate Website

References

1. ^ http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=CL1.NA
2. ^ http://www.nzpa-online.co.nz/var/cm/cm-paper5.php
3. ^ http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/info/aboutthepaper/
4. ^ http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/info/aboutthepaper/
5. ^ http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/info/aboutthepaper/
6. ^ http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/info/aboutthepaper/