North & South (New Zealand magazine)

North & South was a New Zealand monthly national current affairs magazine, specialising in long-form investigative stories and photojournalism. In an eight-page article in 2015, for example, "Long Walk to Justice", staff writer Mike White asked if New Zealand’s justice system should establish an independent commission to investigate wrongful convictions.[1] Issues involving justice in New Zealand provide a theme for many of his stories for North & South. Editor-at-large Donna Chisholm specialises in health and science writing. The editorial content also includes profiles of New Zealanders, brief stories, essays, opinion, music, film and book reviews, food, and travel.[2]

North & South
EditorVirginia Larson
CategoriesCurrent affairs
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation27,724 *NZ Audit Bureau of Circulation (July–Dec 2009)
Year founded1986
First issueApril 1986
Final issueApril 2020
CompanyBauer Media
CountryNew Zealand
Based inAuckland
Websitehttps://www.noted.co.nz/north-south/
ISSN0112-9023

History and profile

North & South was launched in April 1986 by Metro Publications – Mick Mason and Bruce Palmer, under editor Robyn Langwell.[3] ACP Magazines then sold to ACP.[4] It is now published by Bauer Media NZ, based in Auckland.[5] Bauer Media NZ acquired the title in September 2012.[4] Virginia Larson succeeded Robyn Langwell as editor in 2008.[2]

The magazine has won more than 300 journalism, photography and design awards, including multiple MPA Magazine of the Year awards, Citi Journalism Awards for Excellence and Wolfson Fellowships to the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Since Virginia Larson took over as editor, the magazine has won over 80 journalism awards.[2]

In early April 2020, the Bauer Media Group closed down several of its New Zealand brands including North & South in response to the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand.[6][7][8][9]

Contribution to press freedom

In 1995, North & South published an article by Joe Atkinson in which he called ex-Prime Minister David Lange lazy. Lange objected to this and other criticisms in the article, and sued Atkinson and the publishers for defamation. The subsequent case ran for five years, and resulted in the media being able to use a defence of qualified privilege when reporting on politicians.[10] This was a ground-breaking extension of press freedom, which was subsequently subsumed in a more general defence of public interest communication.[11][12]

Columnists and staff writers
North & South editor Virginia Larson

A number of prominent New Zealand journalists have written for North and South.[13] These include:

  • April 2013
  • October 2014
  • August 2015
  • November 2015
  • May 2017
  • Feb 2018

References
  1. White, Mike (March 2015). "A long walk to justice: The case for a Criminal Cases Review Commission". North and South.
  2. Nicholls, Jenny (18 October 2019). "Confessions of a media junkie". Noted. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  3. Hannis, Grant (May 2009). "Reporting Diversity in New Zealand: The 'Asian Angst' Controversy". Pacific Journalism Review. 15 (1): 114–130.
  4. Merja Myllylahti (23 November 2012). "JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report 2012" (PDF). JMAD. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  5. "North & South". Bauer Media Group. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  6. Edmunds, Susan; Nadkarni, Anuja; Cookes, Henry (2 April 2020). "Govt 'could have given half-a-million' to help Bauer but publisher didn't want it, Faafoi says". Stuff. Archived from the original on 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  7. "Covid 19 coronavirus: Bauer Media closing - publisher of the Listener, Woman's Day, North & South". The New Zealand Herald. 2 April 2020. Archived from the original on 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  8. "Covid-19: Major magazine publisher Bauer Media closing down". Radio New Zealand. 2 April 2020. Archived from the original on 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  9. "Publisher of NZ Listener, Woman's Weekly, North & South to shut down". The Spinoff. 2 April 2020. Archived from the original on 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  10. "Lange v. Atkinson". Global Freedom of Expression. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  11. Cohen, David (13 June 2018). "Peters lawsuit not some rare phenomenon". RNZ. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  12. Williams, Garry (31 August 2018). "The new defence of responsible communication on a matter public interest". New Zealand Law Society. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  13. "Star Storytellers, Then and Now". North & South. March 2011.
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