Big tech, AI & media corporations: new amalgamations of power
Global communication ownership networks now amalgamate online and traditional media services, core internet services, internet device usage and telecommunication infrastructures….
Dr Wayne Hope
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Media ownership entwined with big tech; podcasts filling current affairs gap
The 2025 Aotearoa New Zealand Media Ownership Report, produced by the Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) Research Centre at AUT,…
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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….
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1984, Year Zero: The Juggernaut story of the fourth Labour government and Unwinding neoliberalism in Aotearoa New Zealand
Contemporary experience is a misleading guide to tumultuous events. The old order may well be dying, but the new is…
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Media Ownership in Aotearoa New Zealand 2023
At a time when the media as such is the subject of controversy, here are some verifiable facts and informed…
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BlackRock, Fossil Fuel Capitalism and Global Warming
BlackRock is what global capitalism looks like—over US$8.5 trillion in assets under management plus offices and clients in over 100…
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Labour’s John Key Budget
Imagine a 2023 budget prepared by John Key. National are in government but recent poll results are disturbingly close. With…
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Polycrisis, Polls and the Election Cycle
Everything seems to be going wrong, everywhere all at once—COVID-19, Ukraine, bank failures, inflation, extreme weather events. Crisis afflicts the…
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Behind the Floods: Capitalism, carbon and climate change
After last Friday’s deluge, Auckland was awash—streets were rivers, gullies were lakes, cars were flotsam, houses were colanders as banks…
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EXCLUSIVE: Media at the Crossroads
For more than a decade, AUT’s Journalism Media & Democracy (JMAD) has published annual reports on Media Ownership in Aotearoa…