Tag: Media ownership

ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Commercial broadcasting company MediaWorks has agreed to sell its television channels to Discovery Inc. The US-based global entertainment company...

By RNZ News Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher has purchased Stuff from its Australian owners Nine Entertainment for $1 to return the media company to...

By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer A High Court judgment has revealed that an entity other than New Zealand Herald owner NZME is interested in buying the...

By RNZ News NZME is insisting a deal for it to purchase media rival Stuff is still on the cards, despite Stuff's owner saying it...

ANALYSIS: By Sally Young of the University of Melbourne Many newspapers betrayed their readers during the Great Depression and now some are doing so again...

REVIEW: By Adrian Blackburn After something of a love/hate relationship with The New Zealand Herald since I joined as a cadet reporter in 1957, I...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Pacific Media Centre, well established as a champion for media freedom, celebrated its 10th anniversary last week and the milestone...

Pacific Media Watch in Auckland Thirty-three of New Zealand's most senior editors have urged the Commerce Commission to rethink its plan to reject the proposed...

OPINION: By Murray Horton It was one of those fascinating contradictions of capitalism that the foreign-owned TV3 always took its journalistic obligations more seriously than...

OPINION: By Professor Wadan Narsey Just living in Australia for a few months and watching television, makes you see clearly, how the Fiji public is...

By Talebula Kate in Suva The Fiji Times is challenging the selection of the Fiji Sun as the government's exclusive carrier of newspaper advertisements for the...

By Peni Shute in Suva Digicel Fiji has been given three licenses for 12 years to fully operate Sky Pacific, six months after formally acquiring...