Unlike their commercial rivals, public broadcasters have to serve a broad audience. In today’s fragmented mediascape, RNZ may be doing better than its critics claim.
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The death of the government’s public media project is a significant policy failure. But all might not be lost – at no real extra cost.
Classical music station RNZ Concert may have been saved by an outcry from music lovers – but as a composer, it’s clear to me that its management still doesn’t realise what a national treasure it is.
Hundreds of jobs are at risk and the quality of news is under threat as New Zealand’s broadcasting media face closures, sales and restructuring in the biggest overhaul in a decade.
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Associate Professor in Media and Communication, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor, Programme Director (Composition), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor, Co-Director of the Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy, Auckland University of Technology