Tag: mediaworks
RNZ Mediawatch: NZ media facing an apocalypse now?
For years news media bosses warned the creaking business model backing journalism would fail at a major local outlet. It finally happened this week...
Today FM hosts abruptly taken off air and told ‘play music’...
RNZ News
The Mediaworks' radio station Today FM abandoned scheduling today when presenters broke from programming to question the future of their employer.
Broadcasters told their...
MediaWorks and NZ’s problem with toxic work cultures — why HR...
By Fiona Hurd, Auckland University of Technology and Suzette Dyer, University of Waikato
The revelations last week of toxic workplace behaviour and a “boys’ club”...
Global media giant set to be NZ’s biggest private TV broadcaster
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...
NZ’s MediaWorks confirms sale of TV operations to Discovery Inc
By RNZ News
New Zealand's MediaWorks has confirmed it will sell its television operations to US company Discovery Inc.
The deal includes channels Three and Bravo,...
NZ media chiefs warn desperate times ahead faced with advertising nadir
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
The thin veneer of a seemingly robust New Zealand media was ripped off like a...
Pacific reporting among first casualties of struggling NZ media, says academic
By Michael Andrew
International and Pacific reporting are among the first casualties of struggling New Zealand newsrooms as they try to cut costs to make...
NZ media companies agree on protocol for covering mosque terror attack...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
New Zealand’s major media companies have agreed to follow a strict protocol when covering the trial of the Christchurch mosque accused terrorist.
The...