The New Zealand Week

The New Zealand Week a weekly online news review of the leading media sources views on the main stories of the week. Published in New Zealand, it is widely read throughout the country and by a large expat community abroad.

Features
The New Zealand Weekprimary focus is world news, politics and business, of special interest to New Zealand citizens, but it also runs regular sections on science and technology as well as books and the arts.
Articles are fact driven reporting though if recording editorial stances, attempt to present all the perspective as represented across the media in attempt to give the reader opportunity to perform their own analysis. Articles almost never carry a byline. The author of a piece is named in certain circumstances: when notable persons are invited to contribute opinion pieces; when The NZ Week writers compile special reports; and to highlight a potential conflict of interest over a book review. The names of The New Zealand Week editors and correspondents can be located, however, on the front page of the website.
The publication's writers adopt a tight style that seeks to include the maximum amount of information in a limited space.
Tables such as employment statistics are published each week and there are special statistical features too. It is a unique publication in New Zealands weeklies in providing authoritative coverage of official statistics. In addition, TNZW summarizes The Economist' Big Mac Index.This uses the price of a Big Mac hamburger sold by McDonald's in different countries as an informal measure of the purchasing power of currencies.
Other regular features include:
* An obituary
* sections on science and the arts
The newsmagazine goes to press on Thursdays, from Thursday between 7 and 12am NZST.
Website
The New Zealand Week or TheNZWeek has won high informal praise from its audience and the media as a whole, "TheNZWeek. Well laid out, detailed and uncluttered. Well done!" David Brash, Brave New World. Its easy flow, non animated page turn format is unique in website navigation and popular with its readership. Current subscribers 7,800 as of Feb 2010
History
The New Zealand Week was founded by Andrew Hemingway and published its first issue on 12 January 2009.
It is New Zealand's only online review magazine.
The New Zealand Week is traditionally seen as a staid centrist magazine and affectionately referred to as "The week." It's news sources range across the global sphere and political range often printing material from newspapers such as The Independent,The Telegraph, NYTimes, Times of India, Al Jazeera, Le Monde, Spiegel and The Jakarta Post.
Political/Social position
The New Zealand Week's position is centrist as it attempts to give multiple political views on single subjects, though in it's condensed writing style and limited page structure it has been accused of drifting both left and right of an argument.

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