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MEDIA
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): The five most baffling moments from Melissa Lee’s post-Newshub interviews
Newstalk ZB: 'That's buzz talk': Minister Melissa Lee criticised for her solutions post-Newshub and TVNZ job losses (paywalled)
Peter Thompson (Post): That’s all folks: The demise of Newshub and the future of free-to-air TV (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Crucial hours and days ahead in effort to save commercial TV news (paywalled)
Grant Duncan: Distrust in the media and in politicians: could it somehow be healthy?
Grant Duncan (The Conversation): Don’t trust politicians? That may not be such a bad thing
Chris Trotter (ODT): The deplorables, reading click bait, and trustworthiness (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Cutting our nose off to spite our face
Jack Tame (1News): Huge loss of journalism jobs harms us all
Chris Lynch: New Zealanders oppose taxpayer-funded bailouts for private media companies
Ireland Hendry-Tennent (Newshub): Willie Jackson calls Media Minister Melissa Lee 'stupid', says she 'doesn't know what she's doing' amid Newshub, TVNZ turmoil
1News: Media Minister labelled 'out of her depth' by Labour predecessor
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): Stuff, The Spinoff, Newsroom, SYSCA and NZ Geographic on the media crisis
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Top Rupert Murdoch TV exec meets PM Christopher Luxon amid media turmoil; MAFS Kiwi bride Ellie Dix targeted by trolls; Convicted former radio host starts new podcast (paywalled)
1News: Paddy Gower calls on Stuff, NZME to help save Newshub
Darren Bevan and Daniel Rutledge (Newshub): Newshub closure: Patrick Gower goes on TVNZ for first time ever in media blitz that also includes Newstalk ZB, RNZ
Post: Paddy Gower hopes for Newshub lifeboat (paywalled)
Jamie Lyth (Herald): Patrick Gower defends Newshub from ‘keyboard warriors’ after confirmed closure
Isaac Gunson, Whatitiri Te Wake (Whakaata Māori): ‘I feel particularly aggrieved for Māori’ - McRoberts and Kamo on media cuts
Dita De Boni (NBR): Back to the 80s as Newshub scraps only TV news alternative to TV1 (paywalled)
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Good night kiwi: can TV be rescued?
Peter Williams: How can media survive?
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RNZ: RNZ's brand new current affairs show: 30 with Guyon Espiner
Daniel Dunkley (BusinessDesk): NZME AGM: bullish on advertising and OneRoof; grilled on declining trust in news (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): RNZ’s security shake-up for Chinese news launch
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Duncan Greive (Spinoff): The makers of NZ’s most popular shows talk about what’s going wrong with TV
Daniel Dunkley (BusinessDesk): (BusinessDesk): NZ news is disappearing, local entertainment could be next
1News: Shortland Street: Producers 'in close conversations' with TVNZ
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Is Shortland Street in trouble?
RNZ: Shortland Street: Fate of much-loved show unknown amid TVNZ cuts
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