A Business Revolution

When National Business Review began in 1970, this innovative, under-resourced, but courageous fortnightly tabloid had little initial impact. Yet within five years it was a major weekly publication. Launched by young entrepreneur Henry Newrick, it had editorial input from many of the young journalists of the 1960s. NBR became essential business reading and set new standards in journalism. This memoir chronicles the way in which a few young New Zealanders with ambition but no money, grew an enterprise which attracted a succession of owners, gained millions in value, and led to its Fairfax-funded launch as a daily paper in1987 which lasting four years.

Author Hugh Rennie QC, Wellington lawyer, company director and writer, has drawn on his own knowledge of the early years, the recollections of others, surviving company records, and private sources.