APN New Zealand Completes its Regional Compact Project

By: Elizabeth Jarrett | Panpa

For the first time ever, on March 4 residents from the sleepy seaside region of the Western Bay of Plenty district in New Zealand woke up to their local newspaper.

After 140 years as an afternoon broadsheet, the Bay of Plenty Times switched to a morning compact – making it the oldest surviving broadsheet of the final three APN NZ Media’s regional mastheads to switch.