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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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…
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Trusting the News?
The emergence of Breitbart News, Donald Trump and the alt-right media ecology inspired a cornucopia of conspiracist websites and streaming…
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Media Ownership in Aotearoa New Zealand 2021
I co-direct, with Merja Myllylahti, the Journalism Media and Democracy (JMAD) research centre at the School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology. For 11 years, we have published yearly reports on national media ownership and related issues. As of 2020, they featured contributions from other researchers at the school. The 2021 report has just been released [put link here].