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''Metro'' is a glossy monthly lifestyle magazine published in New Zealand. It has a strong focus on the city of Auckland, with reportage of issues and society.〔 The magazine was first published independently by Warwick Roger and Bruce Palmer. ==History== ''Metro'' was established in 1981.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://twitter.com/MetroMagNZ )〕 The debut of the magazine coincided with the rapid expansion of the New Zealand economy that occurred from 1984, following the election of the Fourth Labour Government, who implemented widespread neoliberal deregulation and economic reform. The increased access to imported luxury goods made ''Metro'' magazine an attractive media environment for advertisers. ''Metro'' magazine's success led to the launch of a sister title ''North & South'', edited by Robyn Langwell. This publication took a wider look at New Zealand regional stories. Langwell was editor of ''North & South'' until June 2007. A third title, women's interest magazine ''More'', was launched before the stable was bought by ACP Media, an Australian publishing consortium. Both ''Metro'' and ''North & South'' have won awards for publishing and journalism and ''Metro'', in particular, has been well known for its standard of photography and design under art directors William Chen and Jenny Nicholls. This tradition is still strong, with ''Metro'' winning Best Art Director (Charlie McKay) at the 2010 Qantas Media Awards. ACP Media was the former owner of ''Metro'' until 2013 when the magazine was acquired by Bauer Media Group. ''Metro''s fortunes have varied since Warwick Roger gave up the editor's chair. The appointment of Bill Ralston saw dramatic shifts in the magazine's editorial focus away from the rigor of Roger's style to a more flamboyant, celebrity style format. Sales were disappointing and a period of decline followed. The magazine was relaunched as a large format glossy title while led by Nicola Legat, a long-time contributing journalist. The changes were intended to reverse the decline of sales and readership. At its peak ''Metro'' sold 40,000 copies but this had fallen to less than 20,000. During this period the society scandal column Felicity Ferret was dropped from Metro's pages. The Ferret briefly returned to the pages of Metro in 2009. In 2005, Legat left the magazine to join publishing company Random House. She was replaced by Lauren Quaintance, a former ''North & South'' writer, who oversaw a 5 per cent increase in circulation. However, Quaintance left in June 2007 to return to the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' and the long-serving deputy Bevan Rapson was appointed acting editor. A makeover in 2009 saw ''Metro'' changed to a smaller size, and the incorporation of ''Citymix'' magazine within its pages. In mid-2010, Rapson was replaced as editor by Simon Wilson, a ''Metro'' senior writer and former editor of ''Cuisine'' and ''Consumer'', the magazine published by the Consumers' Institute of New Zealand. In 2010, Wilson oversaw a 25 per cent increase in ''Metro's'' readership, according to Nielsen Media Research. In August 2015 Susannah Walker became the editor of the magazine, replacing Simon Wilson in the post. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Metro (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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