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July 22, 2025
By Anan Zaki, RNZ News business reporter Sky TV has agreed to fully acquire TV3 owner Discovery New Zealand for $1. Discovery NZ is a part of US media giant Warner Bros Discovery, and operates channel Three and online streaming platform ThreeNow. NZX-listed Sky said the deal would be completed on a cash-free, debt-free basis, ... <a title="Sky TV to buy channel Three owner Discovery NZ for $1" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/sky-tv-to-buy-channel-three-owner-discovery-nz-for-1/" aria-label="Read more about Sky TV to buy channel Three owner Discovery NZ for $1">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2024
By John Minto Published in the Christchurch Star newspaper yesterday — this was the advert rejected last week by Stuff, New Zealand’s major news website, by an editorial management which apparently thinks pro-Israel sympathies are more important than the industrial-scale slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and Lebanon. Stuff told the Palestinian Solidarity Movement Aotearoa (PSNA) ... <a title="Published by the Star – the genocide advert that Stuff didn’t want you to see" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/12/published-by-the-star-the-genocide-advert-that-stuff-didnt-want-you-to-see/" aria-label="Read more about Published by the Star – the genocide advert that Stuff didn’t want you to see">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2024
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Warner Bros Discovery has done a deal with Stuff to provide news to replace Newshub. It will keep news on TV channel Three from July 6 and help Three retain some viewers. It also means important income for Stuff, but it will also stretch the company’s staff, finances and ... <a title="Stuff to provide news bulletins to replace Newshub on Three" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/16/stuff-to-provide-news-bulletins-to-replace-newshub-on-three/" aria-label="Read more about Stuff to provide news bulletins to replace Newshub on Three">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog The day the news axe fell: Presenters, insiders fear ‘huge blow for democracy’ The future of New Zealand’s media landscape is becoming clearer by the day, with confirmation that it will no longer feature one of the country’s big two TV news networks. Warner Bros. Discovery ... <a title="Geopolitical reasons why Warner Bros were always going to mutilate NZ’s Newshub" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/geopolitical-reasons-why-warner-bros-were-always-going-to-mutilate-nzs-newshub/" aria-label="Read more about Geopolitical reasons why Warner Bros were always going to mutilate NZ’s Newshub">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
RNZ News Warner Bros Discovery will struggle to retain viewers in New Zealand if it has no news operation, Newshub journalist Paddy Gower predicts, as he continues his crusade for someone to save at least part of its newsroom. A grim 48 hours for news media has resulted in many jobs being lost in the ... <a title="Journalists offered ‘radical’ solution to save part of Newshub, says Gower" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/journalists-offered-radical-solution-to-save-part-of-newshub-says-gower/" aria-label="Read more about Journalists offered ‘radical’ solution to save part of Newshub, says Gower">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2024
For years news media bosses warned the creaking business model backing journalism would fail at a major local outlet. It finally happened this week when Newshub’s owners proposed scrapping it. Then TVNZ posted losses prompting warnings of more cuts to come there. Can TV broadcasters pull a crowd without news? And what might the so-far ... <a title="RNZ Mediawatch: NZ media facing an apocalypse now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/03/rnz-mediawatch-nz-media-facing-an-apocalypse-now/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ Mediawatch: NZ media facing an apocalypse now?">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Stuff, New Zealand’s biggest independently owned news business, today announced it will stop sharing content to X (formerly Twitter), effective immediately. A media statement said that decision followed Stuff’s increasing concerns about the volume of mis- and disinformation being shared, and the “damaging behaviour being exhibited on and enabled by the platform”. ... <a title="NZ’s Stuff media group quits X (Twitter) over ‘disinformation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/13/nzs-stuff-media-group-quits-x-twitter-over-disinformation/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Stuff media group quits X (Twitter) over ‘disinformation’">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2023
Stuff New Zealand’s Stuff media group has joined other leading news organisations around the world in restricting Open AI from using its content to power artificial intelligence tool Chat GPT. A growing number of media companies globally have taken action to block access to Open AI bots from crawling and scraping content from their news ... <a title="Stuff joins global media groups curbing Open AI from using news sites" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/12/stuff-joins-global-media-groups-curbing-open-ai-from-using-news-sites/" aria-label="Read more about Stuff joins global media groups curbing Open AI from using news sites">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2023
RNZ Mediawatch Nothing much changed in a 1News Verian poll released last Monday. However, some commentators treated the boring results as a blank canvas on which to express their creativity. 1News presenter Simon Dallow described the results of the newly named 1News Verian poll on Monday as a harsh verdict on the government. “It is just ... <a title="Mediawatch: NZ election poll analysis unhitches itself from reality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/23/mediawatch-nz-election-poll-analysis-unhitches-itself-from-reality/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: NZ election poll analysis unhitches itself from reality">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2022
RNZ News By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter There is mounting pressure on tech titans Google and Facebook to pay local news media to carry their news online. Google has already done deals with some for its News Showcase, but other big names in news are still trying to get the platforms to pay — ... <a title="Global tech titans under growing NZ pressure to pay for news" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/19/global-tech-titans-under-growing-nz-pressure-to-pay-for-news/" aria-label="Read more about Global tech titans under growing NZ pressure to pay for news">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2020
By RNZ News Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher has purchased Stuff from its Australian owners Nine Entertainment for $1 to return the media company to New Zealand ownership. The sale is expected to be completed by May 31. “Our plan is to transition the ownership of Stuff to give staff a direct stake in the ... <a title="Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher restores NZ ownership for $1" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/stuff-chief-executive-sinead-boucher-restores-nz-ownership-for-1/" aria-label="Read more about Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher restores NZ ownership for $1">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2020
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer A High Court judgment has revealed that an entity other than New Zealand Herald owner NZME is interested in buying the country’s biggest news publisher Stuff – and a deal could be done by the end of this month. Stuff’s owner – Nine Entertainment in Australia – abandoned its negotiations with NZME ... <a title="Court ruling reveals new possible Stuff buyer in NZ media crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/23/court-ruling-reveals-new-possible-stuff-buyer-in-nz-media-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Court ruling reveals new possible Stuff buyer in NZ media crisis">Read more</a>
