Media Insider: Almost 40 jobs set to be cut from NZ Herald newsroom as NZME proposes major shake-up
Almost 40 roles are set to be cut from the NZ Herald, BusinessDesk and Newstalk ZB news operation in a proposal outlined to staff today – the latest in a series of media industry job losses.
The proposed job cuts – a net loss of about 14 reporting and other content generation roles and 24 roles in editorial production – are part of a major reorganisation of the Herald newsroom, the biggest in a decade.
Herald owner NZME – which employs about 300 editorial staff – says it needs to improve the profitability of its publishing division, while also reorganising its newsroom to ensure it reflects continually changing audience demands.
The proposals include more investment in video news, and a stronger focus on ensuring the newsroom is focused on journalism and other content that resonates with audiences, including subscribers, NZME editor-in-chief Murray Kirkness told staff this morning.
They are only interested in video production now because that’s where the biggest advertising dollar, in pre-roll adverts and in-show adverts.
Fuck the content.
Word on the street is that the cuts at NZME are actually far worse than being made public right now, this is the first wave of cuts to be followed by steeper cuts during the year if the advertising revenue doesn’t pick up, NZME already slaughtered 14 newspapers, they’ll have no issues slicing more off as the sinking ship of legacy media continues to sink in the new ocean of social media hate algorithms.
I predicted Today FM would close, I predicted TV3 News would die, I hosted the most watched Treaty debate last year and I won Gold for best current affairs podcast, so what the fuck do I know, but we will see more media companies go to the wall this year as they attempt to create paywalls around their content, which ultimately undermines their influence.
You will see a sale at Stuff this year, you will see TV3 go under this year and Rupert Murdoch’s Australia media empire will buy it and usher in a very right wing political dimension to the station.
Another 100 job losses on top off the 40 planned at NZME plus a change of leadership at Māori TV after grossly incompetence management.
The only bright spark will be Waatea Digital who have managed to jump to digital media far better than most companies have managed.
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Yeah, Murdoch will buy up whats left of the right wing mainstream media here, and then we can see and read an extreme right wing billionaires point of view- who actually watches and reads that shit now? Boomers perhaps? Dreamers?
Get ready for fox news NZ.
Can’t wait to have fair and balanced news Leftorium.
Rules out Fox News then.
As fair and balanced as your single right nut. Get a prostrate check Bob, Fox news is pure garbage.
Troll bots don’t have a prostrate
Given that they only regurgitate govt press releases and print unsubstantiated opinion pieces, I can understand a news room being superfluous.
“You will see a sale at Stuff this year, you will see TV3 go under this year and Rupert Murdoch’s Australia media empire will buy it and usher in a very right wing political dimension to the station”
Don’t think much of your predictions Martyn, usually old socialist/Marxist rehash nonsense, but Murdoch buying Stuff or any other NZ left wing outlets (there are lots, they are all failing..funny that), would be an outstanding outcome, like Sky News Australia, an excellent news station.
There is no Left wing mainstream media in NZ, ditto the entire West. Mainstream media costs big money, money is not synonymous with the Left. All we have is a media that either promotes government and big money interests or big money and government interests. And given that government is largely in the pocket of big money, then big money wins therefore everybody else losses, when it comes to all mainstream media.
There is no left wing media full stop. Just look at how Starmer et.al has been treated by the media in the UK after 14 years of crappy Tory governments. The expectation on a labour government is so much more than the right wing parties.
It seems like left wing to fascists.
Excellent news. Now the government needs to destroy RNZ and TVNZ.
Luxon will give them extra money to undermine him. He isn’t sharp.
I’m positive our Prime Minister Luxon is light years sharper than you Ennius.
Oh bless Bob. You keep believing that with all your heart.
He’s got no heart just a troll bot
There is this great misconception that Maori watch Maori TV. They don’t – ok ok, maybe 23 of them and the other 17 watch TV1 which is also Maori TV now. 99% of Maori, like everyone else, watch Netflix, Disney, Apply and all the other great channels that aren’t boring as batshit! Because Maori would get just as bored of watching endless haka footage, or two guys with a guitar singing sad songs…all day long. Am I wrong?
Tax payer funded is Maori TV but they refuse to release viewing figures or divulge the salary of the leaders/top table.
Wonder why?
How much does Maori TV cost NZ taxpayers each year?
Looking forward to real media as more people realise the left media is propaganda only.
I doubt Rupert Murdoch will have any effect whatsoever. He is part of the old dying legacy media industry are going the way of the dodo in a couple years.
What revolution?