Shayne Currie
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1 April 1971
Shayne Currie | |
|---|---|
| Born | Shayne Currie 1 April 1971 |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Organization | The New Zealand Herald |
| Awards | Canon Media Awards |
Shayne Currie (born 1 April 1971) is a senior journalist from New Zealand. Currie is the Editor at Large of The New Zealand Herald newspaper, based in Auckland.[1] He has previously held executive and senior editorial roles at NZME, including NZME managing editor, NZ Herald editor and Herald on Sunday editor.[2] Currie studied at Tauranga Boys' College in New Zealand.
Currie began his journalistic career as a teenager, editing his school's newspaper, the Reflector. In 1989, he began working at The Evening Post in Wellington, where he won the national award for crime reporting. He subsequently worked on newspapers, including The Press and The Sunday Star-Times, which were at the time all part of the same media group, Independent Newspaper Limited (INL), owned then by Australian newspaper magnate Rupert Murdoch[3][citation needed]. Currie was at The Sunday Star-Times when Murdoch sold his New Zealand newspaper holdings to John Fairfax Holdings, another Australian newspaper publishing company.[citation needed]
In July 2004, Currie resigned from the Star-Times to work on a special project for APN News & Media, which owned The New Zealand Herald and a range of provincial newspapers, magazines, and radio stations. The special project was later revealed to be the Herald on Sunday, another Sunday newspaper. Currie was appointed deputy editor to Suzanne Chetwin.[citation needed]
Currie studied at Cambridge University.[4]
Editorship
Currie took up the editorship of the Herald on Sunday on 1 February 2005, succeeding Chetwin.[5]
On 8 August 2005, he addressed the 2005 PANPA annual conference in Cairns, Australia, on how launching a newspaper can change an entire market. He spoke shortly after Kevin Rudd, the elected prime minister of Australia.[6]
Under Currie's leadership, the Herald on Sunday became only major newspaper in New Zealand to consistently increase its circulation, selling 93,665 papers each week in the audit period ended June 2008.[7]
When the figures were published, Currie said: "In the three years since the launch of the Herald on Sunday, the newspaper has found its voice, attracting new Sunday newspaper buyers to what is the most competitive newspaper market in the country. We owe a huge debt to those who stood with us in our early days, and to those readers who have picked us up for the first time, or more frequently, over the past 12 months. We've listened to what readers liked – and didn't like – and evolved accordingly."[8]
On 9 May 2008, Currie accepted the Qantas Award for Newspaper of the Year for the Herald on Sunday.
In August 2008, the Nielsen Media Research National Readership Survey showed the Herald on Sunday had increased its readership by 64,000 to 390,000: a 19.6% jump in the 12 months to 30 June 2008.[9]