New Zealand's major radio and TV broadcasters today confirmed
the launch of the Online Media Standards Authority, a new
industry funded, self-regulatory body to oversee online news
and current affairs content standards.
Journalists at Fairfax Media will begin the first day of
their strike today after voting to leave the job for 36 hours
over the outsourcing of 66 editorial production jobs to New
Zealand.
The Prime Minister says he doesn't have a problem with the
media, despite his comments today that the press had become
more hostile towards his Government in its second term.
A news director in Australia has resigned and three
journalists have been fired for faking news reports about the
hunt for a missing teenager's remains.
Dunedin television production company NHNZ is not
anticipating any fallout in the wake of the News Corporation
scandal unfolding in the United Kingdom.
Not quite so fast, Mr Joyce. A disquieting tendency is
beginning to emerge around matters of public interest in so
far as they concern the powers that be and anyone who
questions or criticises how those powers are exercised.
