Wilson and Horton

Wilson and Horton (1876 - 2002) was an Auckland, New Zealand-based printer, publisher, and media company, best known for publishing the New Zealand Herald and Auckland Weekly News. The company functioned as a remarkable multigenerational partnership between two families from 1876, when brothers William Scott Wilson and Joseph Liston Wilson (whose father William Chisholm Wilson had founded the New Zealand Herald in 1863) and Alfred George Horton. While newspapers remained their mainstay, the firm also published books and occasionally maps and other media, mostly relating to New Zealand. The company went through several rounds of restructuring in the late 20th century, with the Irish Independent News and Media Group purchasing the Horton portion of the business in 1996, though the name Wilson and Horton continued to be used until 2002. Later, the Australian APN News and Media purchased the New Zealand Herald, continuing to publish a print version down to the present but increasingly focusing on the newspaper's online edition.