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JMAD Projects
New Zealand Media Ownership Report
This New Zealand Media Ownership Report is the first published by AUT’s Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD). In March 2011, JMAD took over the New Zealand media mapping project from Bill Rosenberg, who delivered his last media ownership report in 2008.
Read the New Zealand Media Ownership 2011 report
This report finds that New Zealand media companies are increasingly dominated by global and pan-regional media corporations, and that they are vulnerable to commercial and shareholder pressures. In response to these pressures, New Zealand media companies have continued to economise and started to digitalise. These developments have led to the closure of a 20 year old weekly business paper, job losses for journalists, printers, advertising and distribution workers, and government loans for a conglomerate with major broadcast holdings. Secondly, with APN’s and Fairfax’s withdrawal from New Zealand Press Association NZPA, and the governments funding cut for the state owned digital TV channel TVNZ7, public media space is shrinking as commercial influence has expanded.
Key events and trends which have shaped New Zealand media space most recently are:
- Closure of the 130 years old NZPA
- Government loan to MediaWorks
- End of funding of TVNZ7 and TVNZ6
- Dominant Sky expanding to internet
- Fairfax and APN – economising & digitalising
- Corporates enter into local news markets
The Pacific Journalism Review will publish an article based on the findings of the report which is co-written by AUT lecturer and PhD researcher Merja Myllylahti and JMAD co-director, Dr Wayne Hope.
Media Mapping Project Phase II
In a time of rapid technological change and economic uncertainty changes in media ownership patterns require even more intense scrutiny. International scholarship in this area reveals how cross ownership patterns shape the business objectives, work environments, content formats and journalistic practices of particular media institutions.
In this regard, it is especially important demonstrate how the New Zealand media ownership patterns are positioned within pan-regional and global media conglomerates.
Against this background, it is only natural that the AUT Centre for Journalism, Media & Democracy (JMAD) has taken over mapping and researching New Zealand media-communication ownership patterns and producing related reports. JMAD is taking the leading role on this field- no other New Zealand university has addressed these themes on an ongoing basis.
We owe a big thank you to Bill Rosenberg who has pioneered media ownership mapping in New Zealand and has produced numerous reports on the subject. Handing over his research material and archives to JMAD enables us to continue his important work and generate further research on this field.