The following is a submission I made today to the Parliamentary Epidemic Response Select Committee chaired by Simon Bridges. The committee sat for four hours hearing from media groups about the effect of the Covid-19 crisis. I said I could not over-emphasise the urgency of the issues facing our commercial media. One chief executive told me the industry needed to be “immediately put in emergency triage”. However, like all emergency care, that is only the beginning and I urged the adoption of a three-stage process to create a new, sustainable media ecosystem. Continue reading “NZ media in existential crisis”
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NZ media must rise from Covid blitz
‘Post-war’ reconstruction
This week New Zealand media organisations are participating in a series of workshops that aim to help them through the commercial turmoil of the Covid-19 lockdown. It is an invaluable initiative by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage that should provide some immediate relief, but no-one should expect it to be the long-term answer to their plight.
If our private sector media are to remain standing when the nation recovers from the aftermath of the pandemic, virtual workshops need to be followed by their own version of the Bretton Woods Conference that reset world financial systems after the Second World War. Continue reading “NZ media must rise from Covid blitz”
Hurricane in the neighbourhood
Community newspapers
News is like a hurricane: The closer it gets, the more important it becomes to you.
Right now, it feels like we are in Tornado Alley, staring down a twister dangerous enough to cut a path of utter destruction through our own community.
Our hurricane has been designated Covid-19 and we face it without our most locally focussed media. Continue reading “Hurricane in the neighbourhood”