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Iconic Kiwi magazines up for sale - is their future online?

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Fri, 11 Jul 2025, 8:43am
The New Zealand Woman’s Weekly is 92 years old and is one of the country's best-read magazines.
The New Zealand Woman’s Weekly is 92 years old and is one of the country's best-read magazines.

Iconic Kiwi magazines up for sale - is their future online?

Author
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Publish Date
Fri, 11 Jul 2025, 8:43am

More volatility for some of our best-known magazines.   

The Listener, Woman's Day, and New Zealand Woman's Weekly are among a range of New Zealand and Aussie titles going up for sale.  

Publisher Are Media —which purchased them five years ago, in the chaos of Covid-19— is now on the market.   

Former New Zealand Women's Weekly Editor Alice O'Connell told Heather du Plessis-Allan a lot of these brands have a strong heritage, and she hopes they will live on.  

She says maybe it won't be in a magazine format, but there are different ways to consume information, and they could live online. 

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