Created by partners in business and life, Claire and Brian Rogers, Sun Media filled a much needed gap for a lively, Bay owned and operated “local” paper. The couple brought huge experience into their new venture, having both had careers in newspapers, magazines and publishing. Supported by a skilled and friendly staff, Sun Media found immediate success.

The Weekend Sun set out to be different from the start, with bright, bold and brash editorial with outstanding advertising and graphic design. The community quickly embraced The Weekend Sun as its own, recognising not only the importance of excellent content, unrivalled coverage to every mailbox – but also its friendly, Bay-born-and-bred team, with its heart in the region.

Now into its ninth year, Sun Media is thriving, based in a beautiful historic building located at 1 The Strand, Tauranga. The Bay's own independant and locally owned community newspaper.

The Weekend Sun is free to 61,850 homes in the Bay of Plenty every Friday with 14,000 more readers than any other paper in the Bay every week

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The Weekend Sun: Copy & Booking Deadlines
The deadline every week for display advertising in ROP is 2pm Tuesday for bookings, and Wednesday 12noon for copy.
To book or discuss your advertising needs phone 07 578 0030 or email ads@thesun.co.nz anytime.

Guidelines for Commercial Editorial
A Weekend Sun or Coast & Country commercial editorial is a news story which helps promote a business.
It is a great way to generate interest and tell your customers more about you and your business, and your products and services. However rather than being an extension of your advertisement, editorials are a complimentary service we provide. They are limited to 250 words in length in The Weekend Sun, or 400 words in Coast & Country.

Editorials are written in a news story style. This means the article will include quotes and be written in the third person (i.e. when referring to you, your staff and your business we use he/she/they/the company rather than I/we). In the paper it will look like a news story, with a headline and article accompanied by a photo. The headline is written by our subeditors.

There are two ways to get a great commercial editorial in The Weekend Sun or Coast & Country.
Often the easiest option is for you to write an article about your business.  One of our journalists can then review the article and make sure it fits within our newspaper style, before returning it to you for approval.

Alternatively, one of our journalists can interview you and put together a story. If this is the option you prefer, it really helps to think about what you might want to include before the interview. Jot down a few notes beforehand so nothing important is missed. Make sure the person who is going to approve the editorial is involved in the interview. We are more than happy to write your article for approval, however alterations will be limited to factual corrections only – we cannot accept complete re-writes.

Supplied photos must be high resolution JPEG format, minimum 200KB file size, but ideally 1MB or larger, up to 6MB per email.

Supplied Artwork
All supplied artwork is to be supplied at the correct size H x W as a high resolution print quality .pdf or .eps file
- All images must be CMYK at 200dpi 
- Black & White adverts need to be supplied as Grayscale.
- Allow for a 30% dot gain in all colour work
- All FONTS to be outlined/converted to curves (do not embed)
- Ensure overprint and ICC colour are turned OFF
- Pantone colours need to be converted to CMYK Process
All black text in colour or black & white files should only contain percentages of black or greyscale rather than rich black which has some Cyan, Magenta and Yellow included.
* NOTE:  Files supplied as (CMYK) or (RGB) jpeg or tiff format will convert ALL BLACK within file to CMYK - RICH BLACK. This will result in the BLACK containing traces of CYAN, MAGENTA and YELLOW rather than just the preferred straight black.
The print result can often be a dirty black look due to the printer having issues with registration of the extra unnecessary colours.
*  For white text on a coloured background or coloured text, a minimum of 12pt and bold must be used. Our printers will not guarantee reproduction of anything smaller or finer.  Keep colour areas to the simplest mixture of CMYK possible (preferable 1 or 2 components).