Columnist Peter Nicholl has gone viral; well his column has about the fall of the US dollar published earlier last month.
Peter Nicholl column May 8, 2025
It could have been the mention of the greenback currency or even US president Donald Trump which saw thousands of online readers read the column but we prefer to think it was Nicholl’s thought provoking words of wisdom that did it.
His May 8 column led the Cambridge News website statistics last month accounting for 20 per cent of our readers and ensuring we were 200 per cent up on views from April and 165 per cent on the same month last year.
In a strong month, our second best read story with 14 per cent of views was Mary Anne Gill’s piece on how our fire fighters were coping after a tragic weekend with two fatal call outs testing the community’s volunteers.
Cambridge News website’s strong showing came after it had been outshone by sister publication Te Awamutu News in March and April.
The home page followed, a story about a building material recycling plant set up at an old quarry site west of Cambridge and Aksel Bech’s announcement he would challenge Jacqui Church for the Waikato mayoralty rounded out the top five.
Meanwhile, Nicholl’s mid-May column has also caught European eyes.
“My column got picked up by a news source in Bosnia as I started it by talking about something that happened in Bosnia. One of my former colleagues in the Central Bank of Bosnia there sent the link to me.”
Nicholl – a regular Good Local Media columnist – was the first governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and an article picking up on his column reported that he had spoken to New Zealand media about his experience.
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