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Media commentator Andrew Holden : Journalists at the protest
How do journalists handle the abuse and threats from protestors when they're just doing their job, to bear witness to what's happening? Andrew says the pressures on them, and their employers to keep… Audio
New collective bid to make tech titans pay for NZ news
The umbrella group representing locally-owned news media wants to negotiate with Facebook and Google for "fair payment” for the local journalism appearing on their services. Australian news media have… Audio
Veteran tech reporter warns against tech titans' overreach
Rory Cellan-Jones is a former BBC technology correspondent and author of 'Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era.' The 63-year-old recently left the BBC after a 40-year association with… Audio
Looking back on tech titans' takeover of media
Facebook’s all-powerful founder has rebooted his trillion-dollar company as ‘Meta’ and he’s planning for a new virtual ‘metaverse’ for us in five years. But the real world mess Facebook’s made in… Audio
Meta’s moves to boost our media underwhelms observers
Facebook - freshly rebadged as ‘Meta’ - gives local news media content huge extra reach, but it covers none of the cost of creating it while snaring the bulk of the digital ad revenue it… Audio