We’re back! It’s been a long time coming but the former Rural Living has been relaunched as Franklin Times.
We have a fantastic team of locals on the ground writing articles, selling advertising, and
designing the newspaper, with support from our head office in Howick. We’re 100% locally
owned and operated.
But we need your help.
We have a large distribution area covering Franklin and its outer regions including Pokeno,
Tuakau, Bombay, Waiuku, Ardmore, Takanini, Pukekohe, Clevedon, Drury, Karaka, and
Papakura.
We want your news tips, your events, and your community heroes to keep filling our pages with excellent local content.
We have the What’s On section which is a free community noticeboard for non-profit groups. Send notices of less than 50 words to editor@franklintimes.co.nz with the subject ‘What’s On’.
We are also looking for five students to be part of our junior journalist programme. So if you have a budding writer in your school or family please get in touch.
They will learn tips and tricks and be given guidance from our news team and experience what it’s like to be a journalist. They will get their stories shared on our website and published in our Franklin Times. With our current programme out east, the children’s stories have a huge following and readership. They can write about anything local in the wider Franklin community. We take junior journalists from Year 6 to Year 13.
So here’s to YOUR Franklin Times. Let’s make it a success.
