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April 10, 2024
RNZ News All of Newshub operations — part of New Zealand’s second largest television news network channel Three — are to be shut down and 250 people will lose their jobs. The shutdown includes the company’s website, Warner Bros Discovery announced today. The last 6pm news bulletin will air on July 5. Warner Bros Discovery ... <a title="NZ media: All Newshub operations to be shut down, 250 jobs to go" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/10/nz-media-all-newshub-operations-to-be-shut-down-250-jobs-to-go/" aria-label="Read more about NZ media: All Newshub operations to be shut down, 250 jobs to go">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2024
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter The future of Aotearoa New Zealand television news and current affairs is in the balance at the two biggest TV broadcasters — both desperate to cut costs as their revenue falls. The government says it is now preparing policy to modernise the media, but they do not ... <a title="Mediawatch: TV news meltdown – what will NZ government do?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/17/mediawatch-tv-news-meltdown-what-will-nz-government-do/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: TV news meltdown – what will NZ government do?">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Television New Zealand’s chief executive has been challenged by the public broadcaster’s Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver at a fiery staff meeting over job cuts and axing of high profile programmes, reports The New Zealand Herald. Writing in his Media Insider column today, editor-at-large Shayne Currie reported that Dreaver, one of TVNZ’s most ... <a title="Pacific journalist Barbara Dreaver challenges TVNZ chief over job cuts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/pacific-journalist-barbara-dreaver-challenges-tvnz-chief-over-job-cuts/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific journalist Barbara Dreaver challenges TVNZ chief over job cuts">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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February 28, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Newshub, one of the key media companies in Aotearoa New Zealand, is to close its newsroom on June 30, reports RNZ News. Staff were told of the closure at an emergency meeting today. Newshub is owned by US-based global entertainment giant Warner Bros Discovery which also owns Eden, Rush, HGTV and Bravo. ... <a title="NZ media people react with ‘shock’ over plan to close Newshub in June" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/nz-media-people-react-with-shock-over-plan-to-close-newshub-in-june/" aria-label="Read more about NZ media people react with ‘shock’ over plan to close Newshub in June">Read more</a>