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SHOCKING: Nzme - You Need To See This

With 14 community newspapers due to close, too many parts of NZ are becoming ‘news deserts’

When media company NZME proposed the closure of 14 community newspapers last week, the so-called “news desert” encroached a little further into the local information landscape.

The Conversation

NZME gets to explain its sinking feeling

MediaRoom column: Herald and NewstalkZB owner's profit projected to slump

Newsroom.co.nz

Shall we tell the advertisers?

As publisher NZME confirms four of its senior editors will leave the building, changes looming to the rump newspapers and magazines will not be communicated to advertisers or readers

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MediaRoom: 'Editor' at risk of becoming a dirty word

MediaRoom: People holding the title 'editor' in the senior ranks of one of our big media firms appear to be an endangered species in business restructuring. By Tim Murphy

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'Illegal' TV gambling ads difficult to address

The Department of Internal Affairs has come out hard on free-to-play gambling ads.

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NZME: Good times are just around the corner

MediaRoom column: Herald publisher NZME's statutory net profit down by three-quarters; Newstalk slightly less dominant in radio ratings; farewell to a private equity owner who farewelled Today FM, and latest online audience numbers.

Newsroom.co.nz

Jackson defiant as Meta and Google pull news in Canada

As Meta and Google bar access to news content on their platforms in Canada, Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson isn't fazed about introducing similar legislation here.

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MediaRoom: Stuff restructures, RNZ inquirers get to work

MediaRoom column: Senior journalism roles and some big names are at risk as Stuff consults on a restructure. And RNZ's high-powered external inquiry looks for problems

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Media shooting itself in the foot

Comment: RNZ is struggling to control the damage after a rogue journalist started changing international news agency copy without any oversight. Mark Jennings looks at the impact this and other recent misjudgments by news organisations will have on trust in the media.

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MediaRoom: Stuff's three-legged paywall

MediaRoom column: Stuff will ask readers in three regions to pay for their local news; NZME's subdued annual meeting; plus, The Detail podcast turns four.

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The cuts and trust of NZ media

MediaRoom column: Very few competitors, and certainly not the sensible ones, cheered the end of Today FM – because all commercial media are staring at the same 'great big wall' on advertising spend that hit its owner MediaWorks this year.

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Tova and Today the canaries in the economic mine

The radio workers were caught by the unexpected speed of the decline of NZ's consumer economy, since Christmas – and they won't be the last. Jonathan Milne reports.

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Long, steep challenge for Today FM

Finding a niche in the country's most competitive media market is no easy thing and will require long-term thinking for a radio newcomer

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Can the minister please explain?

National’s spokesperson on broadcasting, Melissa Lee, predictably called it a “train wreck” but Willie Jackson’s interview with TVNZ’s Jack Tame appeared to be another example of a bumbling government minister unable to clearly articulate government strategy.

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The Independent UK

New Zealand PM’s partner gets ‘confidential sum’ by media network that published ‘baseless lies’

‘The statements were based on rumours about Mr Gayford that are baseless lies’

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Today FM hopes for audiences tomorrow

The first commercial radio ratings covering new talk station Today FM are out and, while it's still to early to be definitive, the challenge to grab people's attention remains immense.

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Govt could yet force tech giants to pay NZ media

An Australian-style legislative response against global digital platforms to make them pay for media content remains possible as a new minister says too many news firms are hurting

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Historic high in ratings for Hosking, NewstalkZB

The latest radio industry audience ratings show the Mike Hosking Breakfast on NewstalkZB hitting new highs - while online readership numbers reveal a strong bounce back for Stuff to number o

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The Guardian - AU

Cannabis sprouts in New Zealand parliament garden in protesters’ parting pot-shot

Seedlings, apparently planted by anti-Covid mandate protesters, have been removed after speaker asked for ‘weed to be weeded’

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