Tag: Trust in media
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’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...
Gavin Ellis: News media face distrust by association with social media
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
A new study suggests that the news media’s tanking levels of public trust may be made worse merely by association with...
Digital news check: In media, we don’t trust
ANALYSIS: By Tim Murphy and Mark Jennings, co-editors of Newsroom
Less than half the New Zealand public now professes "overall trust" in news media outlets,...

















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