PremiumUpdatedMedia Insider: Former National Party staffer Matthew Hooton appointed editor-in-chief of Post and Sunday Star-TimesShayne CurrieNZME Editor-at-Large·NZ Herald·15 Jun, 2026 06:27 AM6 mins to readFormer National Party staffer Matthew Hooton appointed editor-in-chief of The Post and Sunday Star-Times.Former National Party political strategist and operative, scholar and academic, and NZ Herald columnist Matthew Hooton has been appointed editor-in-chief of Stuff-owned Wellington newspaper and website the Post and weekend newspaper the Sunday Star-Times.
In a move described on Stuff’s own website today as a “bombshell”, Hooton replaces Tracy Watkins,
