NZME

NZME broadcaster Mike Hosking apologised on air this week for "reckless" claims about John Tamihere and Whānau Ora funding. It was part of a confidential settlement which the Māori Party's co-leader… Audio

Andrew takes a look at NZME's subscription upswing, TVNZ job cuts and the NBR having to pay Steven Joyce's legal costs. Andrew Holden is a journalist for more than 30 years including five as Editor of… Audio

NZME's annual meeting is on Thursday, with pressure from shareholders following an announcement last week that no dividends will be paid before July 2021. Audio

Stuff's chief executive Sinead Boucher has bought the company from its Australian owner Nine Entertainment for $1. It ends years of uncertainty over the publisher's ownership and she says giving staff…

A High Court judgment has revealed that an entity other than the New Zealand Herald's owner NZME is interested in buying Stuff - and a deal could be done by the end of this month.

NZME’s bold bid to buy its biggest rival for $1 foundered in the High Court this week. But Stuff - our biggest publisher of news - is still on the block along with the nation’s most popular magazines… Audio

NZME has been declined an interim injunction by the High Court that would have allowed it to have an exclusive negotiation period with Nine over buying rival media outlet Stuff.

NZME shocked Stuff… Audio

The long-running saga of the mega-merger of our two biggest news publishers is heading for the High Court - not for the first time. Last time round, NZME and Stuff were fighting for the right to get… Audio

Spending on broadcasting and public media has been boosted by $25m over four years in Budget 2020, but there was nothing in it to ease the plight of commercial news media companies. Audio

NZME’s plea for permission to buy its rival Stuff for $1 by the end of this month kickstarted confusing counterclaims today which show a deal is far from done. It’s also a symptom of upheaval in an…

There has been surprise and confusion from two of New Zealand's largest media companies, after NZME announced it plans to buy Stuff – for just one dollar – in a market announcement this morning,

NZME… Audio

On Thursday media companies learned some will take away more than others from the government's first targeted Covid-19 crisis package. Meanwhile, the minister of broadcasting has signaled he'll follow… Audio

Media executives used yesterday's Epidemic Response Select Committee to criticise government for advertising with Facebook and Google instead of them. Lurking behind the anger and appeals for help was… Audio

News media representatives set out the crisis their industry faces to Parliament’s Epidemic Response Committee on Wednesday before the government finalises a package of measures to help them survive… Audio

NZME has made 200 employees or fifteen percent of its workforce redundant - Mediawatch's Colin Peacock discusses how this impacts the media sector. Audio

Media company NZME, owner of The New Zealand Herald and half of the country's commercial radio networks, is cutting 200 jobs due to the downturn in revenue caused by Covid-19.

The redundancies -… Audio

Media company NZME has announced 200 jobs will go and it has suspended publication of popular newspaper supplements in its latest cost-saving response to the COVID-19 downturn. 

The owner of The New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB has warned staff that job losses and major changes to the company's scope and scale are coming, as the Covid-19 crisis cuts into advertising…

On the eve of New Zealand going into lockdown, NZME and Stuff made cost-cutting moves to stave off the financial damage being inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic.