Tag: Stuff
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...
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...
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’s Stuff media group quits X (Twitter) over ‘disinformation’
Pacific Media Watch
Stuff, New Zealand’s biggest independently owned news business, today announced it will stop sharing content to X (formerly Twitter), effective immediately.
A media...
Stuff joins global media groups curbing Open AI from using news...
Stuff
New Zealand's Stuff media group has joined other leading news organisations around the world in restricting Open AI from using its content to power...
Mediawatch: NZ election poll analysis unhitches itself from reality
RNZ Mediawatch
Nothing much changed in a 1News Verian poll released last Monday. However, some commentators treated the boring results as a blank canvas on...
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...
Stuff’s independent covid-19 fact guide – ‘The whole truth’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Those most at-risk of serious illness or death from covid-19 are frequently targeted with misinformation, reports Stuff.
Produced by Stuff in partnership...
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...
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...
New Zealand newsrooms becoming more caring, says journalist
By Irra Lee of Te Waha Nui
A well-known Kiwi journalist has said the New Zealand news industry is getting better at showing care for...
Herald paywall could turn readers to rival Stuff, warns AUT lecturer
By RNZ News
The New Zealand Herald’s new premium paywall could turn readers to digital competitor Stuff, warns Auckland University of Technology communication studies lecturer Dr...
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...