Tag: Newshub
Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific
By Alana Musselle of Te Waha Nui
Cook Islands News, the national newspaper for the Cook Islands, is one of many Pacific news media agencies...
NZ’s Media Minister Melissa Lee demoted after Newshub crisis
RNZ News
Melissa Lee has been ousted from New Zealand's coalition cabinet and stripped of the Media portfolio, and Penny Simmonds has lost the Disability...
Myles Thomas: Newshub, TVNZ job cuts: We now have the worst...
COMMENTARY: By Myles Thomas
The announced closure of Television New Zealand’s last primetime current affairs programme seems to be the final nail in the coffin...
Stuff to provide news bulletins to replace Newshub on Three
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Warner Bros Discovery has done a deal with Stuff to provide news to replace Newshub. It will keep news...
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...
NZ media: All Newshub operations to be shut down, 250 jobs...
RNZ News
All of Newshub operations -- part of New Zealand's second largest television news network channel Three -- are to be shut down and...
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...
Mediawatch: TV news meltdown – what will NZ government do?
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
The future of Aotearoa New Zealand television news and current affairs is in the balance at the...
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 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...
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...
NZ media people react with ‘shock’ over plan to close Newshub...
Pacific Media Watch
Newshub, one of the key media companies in Aotearoa New Zealand, is to close its newsroom on June 30, reports RNZ News.
Staff...
Labour support slips in new NZ poll, but could still govern...
By RNZ News
With just under three weeks until the election, Newshub's new political poll shows the gap is closing between Labour and National, but...
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,...
PNG Media Council says bring back Waide – stop attacking free...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Media Council of PNG has called on the board and management of Media Niugini
Limited to allow senior EMTV journalist Scott...
EMTV suspends senior journalist Scott Waide over NZ Maserati news story
The Maserati item from New Zealand's Newshub screened on EMTV News on 17 November 2018.
By Vincent Moses in Port Moresby
The Papua New Guinean state-owned...