| The National Business Review | |
| Type: | Online News Publication |
| Format: | Tabloid |
| Owners: | Todd Scott |
| Founders: | Henry Newrick |
| Chiefeditor: | Grant Walker |
| Editor: | Calida Stuart-Menteath & Hamish McNicol |
| Headquarters: | Auckland |
The National Business Review (or NBR) is a New Zealand-based online news publication aimed at the business sector. It has journalists in Auckland, Wellington, Canberra and Sydney.
The NBR was founded in 1970 by then-23 year old publisher Henry Newrick. Initially published as a fortnightly tabloid-format newspaper, it was briefly published as a daily newspaper from 1987 to 1991. New Zealand businessman Barry Colman was the NBR's publisher for 24 years, after buying it from John Fairfax & Sons in 1988. He sold it to Todd Scott in 2012.[1]
The publication's website has a paywall model, where businesses and individual subscribers pay to access certain content. As of June 2016, the NBR had more than 4000 paying subscribers.[2] The NBR launched an online radio platform in March 2015, NBR Radio,[3] and in early 2018 it launched a video-on-demand platform provided by Shift72,[4] NBR View. In 2020, the NBR ceased printing and became an online newspaper.
The publication produces an annual The Rich List with the estimated wealth of the richest New Zealanders. In 2020, Todd Scott announced that NBR had "called off the 2020 NBR Rich List" due to the economic impact of COVID-19, saying it would be "vulgar" to focus on wealthy people.[5] Today, NBR produces "The NBR List" which focuses on NZ's top wealth creators and philanthropy in New Zealand.