William Berry (c.1835 – 2 October 1903) was a New Zealand journalist and newspaper editor.
[1] He was born to Margaret Garden and her husband William Berry.
Around the year 1847, aged 12, he was apprenticed in the composing room of The Scotsman newspaper.
In 1863, Berry was engaged by the Daily Southern Cross newspaper in Auckland, New Zealand, as a war correspondent.
He moved to Auckland in 1875 as an editor of the New Zealand Herald and retained this position when it merged with the Southern Cross in 1877.