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At a time when the media as such is the subject of controversy, here are some verifiable facts and informed analysis. This year’s Journalism Media & Democracy (JMAD) media ownership report finds that the basic pattern of national media ownership remains: shareholder and private-equity owned corporations, smaller private independent companies, and crown-owned broadcasters. The first sector is dominated by New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME), Sky, MediaWorks and Warner Brothers/Discovery. Overall, these entities are owned by financial institutions (listed and unlisted) and telecommunications/media entertainment behemoths with global holdings.
Our report reveals the following significant events:
TVNZ and RNZ merger process terminated.
Financially owned Mediaworks abruptly closes radio newstalk station, TodayFM.
The Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill provides a nationally inclusive statutory framework for negotiated agreements between news publishers and platform operators.
The Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF) ceases operation.
During 2023, broadcasters, print and online publications confronted, to varying extents, the economic power of platforms, streaming companies and financial media owners. The recently elected National-Act-New Zealand First Government won’t advance remedial measures. Broadcasting Media and Communications Minister Melissa Lee is unlikely to support the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill, or compensatory levies for news publishers on social media platforms. New public journalism initiatives and the very principle of a new public media entity would be resolutely opposed by all coalition partners. Meanwhile, far-right disinformation from the dark web circulates outward into websites, podcasts and the blogosphere. At the same time, Māori broadcast media and their online networks maintain cultural resilience. Nevertheless, in Aotearoa New Zealand, the mediated public sphere is under siege.
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