A bold new world of journalism
NZ Herald Premium is here — subscribe to have the best national and international news at your fingertips
It’s here — welcome to a Premium world. nzherald.co.nz’s new digital subscriptions have launched offering an unrivalled and expanded menu of investigative journalism, insightful commentary and indepth analysis, along with a glittering lineup of international content.
We’re super proud to lead the way in New Zealand journalism as the first major media business to launch digital subscriptions to help fund quality journalism well into the future.
Digital subscriptions cost $5 a week — but as a special introductory offer subscribers will pay just $2.50 a week for the first eight weeks. An annual digital subscription is fixed at $199, representing a $61 saving across the year.
Our five-, six- and seven-day NZ
Herald and regional newspaper subscribers have automatic, free access to Premium. Those with weekend or part-week newspaper
subscriptions receive a discount.
Print subscribers will receive emails explaining how to activate their subscription.
For new subscribers, it’s easy — and cheap
— to subscribe.
You’ll find details on how at nzherald.co.nz.
When you become a signed-up subscriber — and activate your account — you’ll also start seeing the Premium content on the NZ Herald app.
For now, non-subscribers can’t see or access Premium content on the app.
While much of our journalism, including breaking and “commodity” news, will remain free on nzherald.co.nz, you’ll be able to easily recognise a Premium story — it’s tagged with a gold “Premium” label. Digital subscribers who click on a Premium story will have full access. Non-subscribers will receive the first 100 words free, before a prompt encourages you to sign up and subscribe. You’ll find Premium stories in prominent and dominant positions on the homepage, and throughout the website — many of the best will be housed here: nzherald.co.nz/ premium
Premium articles will also feature heavily on the homepages of our business, politics, news, world, sport, lifestyle and entertainment sections and on each of our five regional newspaper websites — the Northern Advocate, Bay of Plenty Times,
Rotorua Daily Post, Whanganui Chronicle, and Hawke’s Bay Today.
As we’ve announced, we have a stellar line-up of international mastheads whose best journalism will feature strongly in our Premium menu — The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, the Harvard Business Review, and The South China Morning Post.
NZME Premium content editor Miriyana Alexander said unique and exclusive New Zealand journalism would drive the Premium content strategy, while the content from the global publications provided incredible additional value. Digital subscriptions would foster quality journalism, critical in an era of “fake news”.
NZME managing editor Shayne Currie said: “This is a watershed moment for the New Zealand Herald,
NZME and the wider media industry in New Zealand — it’s a bold, exciting move in an ever-changing landscape.
“For 156 years, subscribers have enjoyed receiving their Herald in the letterbox each morning — and our loyal customers have helped sustain our newsrooms and editorial endeavour. We are the first of the major media businesses in New Zealand to launch digital subscriptions, and we are confident these will help fund quality journalism for many years to come.”
NZME chief executive Michael Boggs said the launch of digital subscriptions was in line with the company’s strategic priorities for 2019.
“We have made a strategic commitment to lead the future of news and journalism in New Zealand and the launch of NZ Herald Premium digital subscriptions is a key milestone in achieving our strategic priorities.”