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'Cinema of intimacy' better than multi-screen complexes - film critic
28 Jun 2020Grandiose cinema multiplexes influence the kind of films being made and a better viewing experience often comes from watching a movie on a laptop at home, a veteran critic says. Audio
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Up to 250 jobs to go at Australian public broadcaster, programming axed
24 Jun 2020The ABC will axe up to 250 jobs and cut programming as it deals with budget cuts of $84 million.
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Mediawatch: 'Poo Towns' in name change showdown
14 Jun 2020Mediawatch - A dispute is brewing between the popular Facebook page 'S--t Towns of New Zealand' and The Rock station's weekly segment 'Poo Towns'. Audio
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NZ seen as a bit of a backwater for cyber crime, security consultant says
23 Jun 2020Computer security consultant Adam Boileau details how cryptocurrencies help decouple the identity of a person from the control of money and what that means for cyber crime. Audio
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Bauer Media NZ bought by Australian investment company
Bauer Media has confirmed reports its Australian and New Zealand business has been bought by Australian investment company Mercury Capital.
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TVNZ looks to cut between 70 and 90 jobs
TVNZ is consulting with staff over cutting between 70 and 90 jobs.
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NZME board chair resigns ahead of shareholders meeting
11 Jun 2020Peter Cullinane says he resigned abruptly before the meeting after it was it was made clear big shareholders had lost confidence in him.
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Big media players have forgotten the medium is the message
5 Jun 2020Opinion - Smaller media businesses see and do things a little differently, and often more successfully than the big ones, writes Akaroa Mail editor Michael de Hamel.
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'Dial-up speed at best': Rural Marlborough's fight for better internet
8 Jun 2020Some Marlburians continue to voice their frustration over the slow or severed internet connection they experience as the council considers annual plan submissions.
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Is consolidation really the solution to our media's problems?
26 May 2020Opinion - The media sector has gone from being one of New Zealand's most powerful and profitable, to the unimaginable humbling we see today but should we be taking a closer look at independent media?
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NZ's new internet laws - sensible censorship?
10 Jun 2020The Detail - New legislation to ban objectionable content online aims to tame the worst excesses of the internet without over-censorship. But free speech advocates worry it could be abused.
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Tonight we celebrate, but the party mood won't last long
22 May 2020Opinion - New Zealand's journalists will gather tonight to celebrate their craft at the Voyager Media Awards, but it'll only be brief distraction from the major issues faced by the country's…
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Government told to embrace digital technology in post-Covid recovery
Government infrastructure investment projects should be re-framed from being 'shovel ready' to being 'sensor ready', according to the Digital Council.
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Avatar crew touch down in Wellington
Hollywood heavyweight James Cameron is among 54 Avatar crew granted permission to arrive back in New Zealand today to resume work on the $1 billion movie sequels.
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Celebrating 60 years of NZ TV: 'It's very rarely seen footage'
31 May 2020No footage exists of television's arrival in Aotearoa 60 years ago - but there is a wealth of material to honour the role it has played in the country's history, the curator of a new exhibition says. Audio
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Trump move could scrap or weaken law that protects social media companies
US President Donald Trump says he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies, including Twitter and Facebook.
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Stuff's new owner: 'I can't say that we will have all of our newspaper titles'
25 May 2020Stuff's chief executive Sinead Boucher, who has bought the media company for $1 from Australia's Nine Entertainment, says she has no other financial backers at this stage. Audio
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Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher buys company for $1
25 May 2020Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher has purchased Stuff from its Australian owners Nine Entertainment for $1.
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MediaWorks announces 130 job losses
25 May 2020MediaWorks chief executive Michael Anderson has told his staff that 130 jobs will be lost in a restructure across its radio and sales teams.
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RNZ wins seven categories at Voyager media awards
22 May 2020Winners included Guyon Espiner for Reporter of the Year, Aaron Smale for feature writer of the year, Te Aniwa Hurihanganui for Māori Affairs reporting, and more.
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Mediawatch: NZME injunction files reveal another Stuff suitor
21 May 2020Another buyer is interested in Stuff, the country's biggest news publisher which NZME has been pursuing for years, a High Court judgment has revealed.
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No relief for under-pressure commercial media in Budget
Mediawatch - Spending on broadcasting and public media has been boosted by $25m over four years in Budget 2020, but there was nothing to ease the plight of commercial news. Audio
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Mediawatch: Media merger saga turns into bitter court battle
The long-running saga of the mega-merger of NZ's two biggest news publishers is heading for the High Court again, and this time the pair are seriously estranged. Audio
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NZME declined an interim injunction against Stuff owner Nine
19 May 2020NZME has been declined an interim injunction by the High Court that would have allowed it an exclusive negotiation period with Stuff's Australian owner Nine.
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