A Perfect Media Storm – Aotearoa New Zealand Media Ownership Report 2024
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”.
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?
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.
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