Tag: NZME
Global tech titans under growing NZ pressure to pay for news
RNZ News
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
There is mounting pressure on tech titans Google and Facebook to pay local news media to carry their...
Closures, cuts, revival and rebirth – how covid reshaped NZ media...
ANALYSIS: By Merja Myllylahti, Auckland University of Technology
When Bauer Media announced the closure of its New Zealand magazine operation just a week into level...
More diversity representation needed in NZ media, Pio tells Herald staff
By Anya Imandin, AUT News
Auckland University of Technology director of diversity Professor Edwina Pio has made a presentation on diversity and the media to...
Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher restores NZ ownership for $1
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...
O’Neill arrest featured on PMC’s Southern Cross radio
Pacific Media Watch
The arrest of former Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill on his arrival home in Port Moresby was featured today on...
Court ruling reveals new possible Stuff buyer in NZ media crisis
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...
Media monopoly: Was NZME trying to pull a ‘fast one’ over...
COMMENT: By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Was New Zealand media giant NZME trying to pull a “fast one” when the company...
NZME makes offer to buy rival Stuff for nominal $1
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...
Southern Cross covers pandemic lockdown and media ‘fast one’
Pacific Media Watch
Well into the alert level 3 phase of New Zealand's covid-19 coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and today’s weekly Pacific Media Centre Southern...
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...
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...
NZME, Fairfax merger declined over ‘risk of causing harm’ to NZ...
By Pacific Media Watch editor Kendall Hutt
New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has denied a move which would have seen two of the country’s largest media...
Academics warn NZME, Fairfax merger would ‘spell disaster’ for NZ media
By Mackenzie Smith in Auckland
Academics have warned a merger of NZME and Fairfax will spell disaster for the media ecosystem at a conference on...
