Tag: News media cuts
TVNZ breached union pact when deciding on programme cuts, ERA rules
RNZ News
Television New Zealand has breached its collective agreement with the E tū union when deciding on discontinuing programmes, the Employment Relations Authority has...
RNZ Mediawatch: End of the news in NZ as we know...
This week the two biggest TV broadcasters in Aotearoa New Zealand confirmed plans to cut news programmes by midyear - and the jobs of...
Geopolitical reasons why Warner Bros were always going to mutilate NZ’s...
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
The day the news axe fell: Presenters, insiders fear ‘huge blow for democracy’
The future of New...
Journalists offered ‘radical’ solution to save part of Newshub, says Gower
RNZ News
Warner Bros Discovery will struggle to retain viewers in New Zealand if it has no news operation, Newshub journalist Paddy Gower predicts, as...
‘Economic headwinds’ force Newshub shutdown, media jobs cut in NZ
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
Warner Bros Discovery has confirmed its plans to shut down Newshub in Aotearoa New Zealand, including its website and...
New research report shows major drop in media trust in New...
Pacific Media Watch
Just a third of New Zealanders now say they trust the news. That is the major finding of Auckland University of Technology's...
NZ media minister Melissa Lee says interviews would have been ‘boring’
RNZ News
New Zealand's media and communications minister is defending pulling out of pre-booked interviews about her portfolio, saying they would have been "boring" for...
TVNZ job cuts: Public asked to join ‘save our stories’ protest...
RNZ Pacific
The union representing Television New Zealand staff is calling on the public to join a campaign protesting the broadcaster's plans to axe programmes...
Pacific journalist Barbara Dreaver challenges TVNZ chief over job cuts
Pacific Media Watch
Television New Zealand’s chief executive has been challenged by the public broadcaster’s Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver at a fiery staff meeting over...
TVNZ plans to axe Fair Go, Sunday, midday and night news...
RNZ News
Television New Zealand is proposing to axe its long-running and award-winning current affairs programme Sunday, hosted by veteran broadcaster Miriama Kamo.
It is part...
TVNZ to cut up to 68 jobs in restructure – ‘dire...
RNZ News
Television New Zealand will start talks from tomorrow with staff who will lose their jobs in the state broadcaster's bid to stay "sustainable".
It...