Major Events and Developments
- Warner Bros. Discovery closes Three’s Newshub operation.
- TVNZ closes down Sunday, Fair Go, Midday and Tonight. Drastic downsizing of TVNZ’s news operations unfolds with substantial job losses.
- NZME announces the termination of 14 newspapers and numerous community titles.
- Legislative passage of the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill becomes uncertain.
- The Spinoff announces a partial closure of operations and staff losses.
- Closure of Te Ao Māori News as a daily bulletin announced.
JMAD Co-Director Professor Wayne Hope says,
“2024 was a momentous year. A perfect storm of news operation closures and staff cuts in television, newspapers, magazines and print-online amidst economic recession damaged media organisations and journalistic culture”.
“The slow intermittent passage of the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill draws attention to the economic power and leverage of Alphabet/Google and Meta/Facebook”.
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Newspapers and TV news have been declining for last few years, almost everyone gets their news from online sources, even if they do read a newspaper or watch TV news almost all have already read the same stories online.
It’s not unlike the mail with NZ Post (and every countries mail system), with emails and Facebook and facetime etc keeping in contact with someone is much more instant than posting a letter/card.
Why people are surprised at the closures and reductions is the strange part, not the actual closures.
To be clear. You and your money cult are the problem not the solution.
To a great extent they’ve brought it upon themselves. Why would I read the product of a journalist I know is a liar and propagandist?
That’s the same reason I don’t listen to Hosking , The Project, this Governments ministers or it’s speaker.
Who owns RNZ?
@ mc. If you really want to know go and stand in the Bee Hive lobby.
More importantly… No Posts/comments etc re Maori contacting the crown?
The Guardian
Māori tribes make rare plea to King Charles for intervention in New Zealand politics
Exclusive: Open letter seen by the Guardian asks King to ‘ensure the government does not diminish the crown’s honour’ amid tensions over policy direction for Māori
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/11/new-zealand-maori-tribes-letter-king-charles-treaty-of-waitangi
Oh the irony. Maori leaders who claim they didn’t cede sovereignty are appealing to … their sovereign (nominal as he may be).
Muggins owns RNZ..
And few noticed this “perfect storm”, which of course is the whole point, far more than Google, Facebook and others, who are starting to hit their own problems thanks to AI.
The internet of changes.
Whole streets of dead retail spaces in New Market. Landlords not happy with Amazon and Temu.
NZPost mail delivery down to once a week.
Immediate news from everywhere and so many screen options to get a dollop of dopamine, how can local journalists compete for attention. And people no longer trust the curated narratives fed by msm.
On the other hand the void can be filled by the podcasters that have started to send out field reporters.
https://youtu.be/DuOPpWTxBp8