New Herald app showcases our Premium journalism

We’ve just made it easier for you to access the Herald’s very best journalism.

As the Herald celebrates the Triple Crown of journalism at the annual Voyager Media Awards — Website of the Year, Newspaper of the Year and Best News Website/App — its worldclass journalism is now accessible on the Herald app.

New Zealand Herald Premium — the Herald’s digital subscription service that gives you access to the best journalism locally and internationally — has previously been available on the app only to signedup subscribers.

Now every app user has access to expanded business, political and investigative journalism, insightful analysis and commentary from our journalists in newsrooms nationwide.

In just its first year, more than 46,000 people have signed up to NZ Herald Premium.

Now we have launched in-app Premium purchasing, meaning you can buy a monthly or annual subscription in the app, using your Apple or Google account.

The app has several other new features, giving you the power to personalise the way you consume the news.

Users will be able to customise the quick links in the top home menu — giving you easy access to the news you want to see first.

You can choose from all the big areas like Premium, latest news, business, politics, sport and lifestyle — and you can add and remove other topics that interest you. These options include sections ranging from small business to sailing and from education to the environment.

And you can now receive news alerts by topics of interest — including sport, politics and business — and by locations across New Zealand.

Subscribers can also save stories to read offline.

The app, launched in February, showcases first-class content across the Herald and wider NZME stable, including our regional titles the Northern Advocate, Bay of Plenty Times, Rotorua Daily Post, Hawke’s Bay Today

and Whanganui Chronicle.

Our Premium journalism sits proudly alongside a selection of exclusive content from some of the world’s top publishers — the New York Times, Financial Times, Times of London and Harvard Business Review.

Premium has never been more vital — at a time when audiences are turning to the Herald in record numbers, the media has never been under greater financial pressure.

“In this time of crisis, we know you need quality, credible information now more than ever — and we are proud to deliver that,” said Premium content editor Miriyana Alexander.

“But is not cheap to fund quality journalism — it takes time, resources and effort to expose the truth, make a difference and fight on behalf of the public.

“Digital subscriptions have opened up a new revenue stream for us to help fund the future of quality journalism, just as our loyal print subscribers have done for the past 150 years. Herald Premium subscribers are helping us tell the stories that matter.”

You can subscribe at nzherald.co.nz/my-account/ subscription/offers/