New Zealand and Pacific: Newspapers and Magazines

Current

For current sources search the following:

Databases

• Index New Zealand: INNZ
• Newztext Plus 
  Factiva
• findNZarticles

Current New Zealand news

• New Zealand Herald
  NZ's largest daily newspaper
• Stuff
  Fairfax newspapers, including Waikato Times, Dominion Post, The Press & Otago Daily Times
• TVNZ News
  Local headlines, weather, sports. Includes video clip
• Scoop
  independent press release driven Internet news
• Newsroom  New Zealand news service. Subscription

Current Pacific news

• Pacific islands news and information links
  Online links to Pacific newspapers, magazines, journals and radio/TV news by the Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center
• Pacific Islands Report 
  Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center. Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawai‘i
• Fijilive.com
  News from Fiji 
• Wansolwara Online
  Journalism Training Website University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Directories

• Links to Pacific media sites
  Newspapers, magazines, radio and television. From Pacific Islands Report

Australian newspapers

• A number of Australian newspapers (back to about 1990) are available fulltext from the Factiva database.
• For indexes to Australian newspapers see APAIS and other Informit databases.

Historical

New Zealand

Historical newspapers

• Papers Past
  Selected 19th century New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. Contains digital images
• Niupepa Maori 
  Digital collection of Maori historical newspapers 1842-1930s
• Te Ao Hou 
  Maori news magazine 1952-1975

Databases and Indexes

• Te Puna: the New Zealand National Bibliographic Database
• Search the Library Catalogue for University of Auckland Library holdings (includes Papers Past newspapers). Example the Library Catalogue Search 
• Union list of newspapers preserved in libraries, newspaper offices, local authority offices and museums in New Zealand
• Newspaper indexes in New Zealand : guide
• New Zealand newspapers on microfilm
  Microfilmed newspapers can be interloaned from the National Library
• Index: Maori /Maoris to Otago Daily Times, Evening Star, Otago Witness and other Dunedin newspapers 1861-1986
• Index to the New Zealand mail 1871-1907
• New Zealand biographical clippings, 1890-1988
• Papers Past
• Alexander Turnbull Library biographies index
• Auckland City Libraries and their Auckland Research Centre have the following online and card indexes which include references to 19th and 20th century Auckland newspapers:
  • Auckland Index
    Continues the New Zealand Index on cards from 1996 and replaces it from 1966. Covers Auckland newspapers and other local sources as well as NZ journals
  • New Zealand Card Index
    Auckland region; biographical and subject entries. Primarily 20th century, but some earlier content. Closed 1996
  • Auckland Provincial History Card Index
    Auckland region; biographical and subject entries. Compiled in preparation for a provincial history. Mainly 1840s and1850

University of Auckland newspapers on microfilm: 

• Dominion  Sept. 26, 1907-Dec. 1959; Jan. 1979-July 6, 2002
• Evening Post (in Papers Past 1865-Oct. 30, 1915)
• Gisborne Times 1905-1936
• Hawkes Bay Herald  1879-1904
• New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Journal  1890-1908
• New Zealand Herald 1863-2007
• New Zealand truth (earlier Auckland Truth) July 1906-Dec. 1931; Jan. 1934-Dec. 1939 incomplete; Jan. 1944-Sept. 1947; Jan.  1948-Dec. 1972; Jan. 1975-Dec
• New Zealand Weekly News 1863-1934
• Northern Advocate 1887-Dec 1939
• Otago Daily Times Nov 1861-Dec. 1970; Jan. 1987-Sept.1994;  Jan. 1995-
• Southern Cross 1843-1855
• Thames Star. Jan. 1893-Dec. 1902; July-Dec. 1903; July 1904-Dec.1909; July 1910-Dec. 1920
• Weekly Graphic and New Zealand Mail 1908-1913

Pacific

• The contemporary Pacific Islands press 

University of Auckland newspapers on microfilm: 

• Cook Islands news [microform]. 27 May 1960-30 Dec. 1966; 1961/72
• Cook Islands news 6 Jun. 1961; Jan. 1967-
• Atoll pioneer : national weekly of the Gilbert Islands
• Observer (Apia, Western Samoa)  
• The Samoa observer
• Savali
  Western Samoa
• Solomon star
• Taumu'a lelei
• Tonga chronicle
• Taimi o Tonga

Magazines

• Matangi Tonga
• Tahiti pacifique : mensuel d'information et d'économie
• The Review : the news & business magazine of Fiji
• Pacific islands monthly