[citation needed] In July 2004, he resigned from the Star-Times to work on a special project for APN News & Media, which owned The New Zealand Herald and a range of provincial newspapers, magazines, and radio stations.
[5] Under his leadership, the Herald on Sunday has been the only major newspaper in New Zealand to consistently increase its circulation, selling 93,665 papers each week in the audit period ended June 2008.
[10] During his time as acting editor of The Sunday Star-Times, Currie defended one of his journalists, who was charged with the theft of a videotape that belonged to a drug case involving a teacher and pupils.
[citation needed] Later, in October 2005, as editor of the Herald on Sunday, Currie discovered that one of his staff reporters, John Manukia, 38, had fabricated an interview with former South Auckland police officer Anthony Solomona.
[citation needed] Currie wrote a first-person article in the Herald on Sunday of 23 October 2005, explaining what had happened and expressing his regret to readers.
Reporter Stephen Cook, who helped Currie launch the tabloid, was fired in 2008 after two drug squad detectives visited the Herald on Sunday offices searching for him.
He sent a reporter to the rival Sunday Star-Times print site to obtain advanced copies in a bid to get stories for his own paper.
Currie and APN won the employment case after the court found Cook's dismissal was justified, as he could not adequately explain why he was at the address under surveillance.