Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: How StuffMe looked from the regions

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 09 May 2017 13:32:31 +1200

press, repress, depress...
Sad to hear that Rod Oram has had to leave his diminishing platform in the Sunday Star Times – Farfax really have lost the plot.
listen hear:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201843153/business-commentator-rod-oram

compare and contrast to the Aussie Fairfax management getting pay rises while firing editorial staff (nice work if you…

Matthew Poole

Tue, 09 May 2017 10:10:05 +1200

If you want to compare to the UK, take a look at all their cities with populations > 100k.
NZ has seven, one of which is Auckland, and if you bundle up Lower Hutt into "Wellington" it decreases to six. Bundling Lower Hutt, Porirua and Upper Hutt into "Wellington" gives…

Matthew Poole

Tue, 09 May 2017 09:40:46 +1200

With around 1.4 million residents a fair bit of stuff, some of it newsworthy, happens there. But New Zealand’s population is nearing 4.5 million; less than one third of New Zealand lives in Auckland.

Being "that guy", this is quite starkly inaccurate.

Population of NZ is projected to break 4.8m…

Kumara Republic

Mon, 08 May 2017 02:54:05 +1200

For some perspective...

https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/861109177418039298

@MarkDiStef
Jesus H Christ.

Domain valued at $2.2 billion.

The SMH, The Age, The AFR valued at $17.6 million.
http://www.afr.com/street-talk/private-equity-giant-tpg-seeks-new-deal-with-fairfax-media-20170505-gvzdxv via @adharves

Sacha

Sun, 07 May 2017 22:47:20 +1200

Fairfax news controllers in Wellington turn them down

3rd-and falling.
#irrelevance
#envy

Sacha

Sun, 07 May 2017 22:46:17 +1200

This city hums with wonderful and/or nationally-significant stories.

verily.
2nd-largest city and all that

Hebe

Sun, 07 May 2017 22:18:49 +1200

You know the drill Ian: if it’s on TV news or in the Herald website it’s front-page in the Press. Nothing is important unless a power-greater-than-Christchurch deems it so.
This city hums with wonderful and/or nationally-significant stories. I find them every day without even looking, and I suspect the Press…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 06 May 2017 13:52:04 +1200

The Star
Which often has stories of major local import that The Press misses and never seems to follow up on after they have been publicised in The Star, whereas Fairfax seems happy to report on stories reported on in The NZ Herald – seems odd to me.

Hebe

Sat, 06 May 2017 13:13:18 +1200

I’m not sure how well it is working (on a news or financial) level.

Absolutely fine. Allied Press also have a solid presence in Christchurch via Star Media, the owner of The Star and CTV and taking in the Mainland community newspapers and various other operations.

Simon Lyall

Sat, 06 May 2017 08:04:57 +1200

Another outlet that seems to be following the regional model is the ODT. They appear to have reporters in at least half a dozen towns in their region filing stories daily. I found it a big contrast to the Herald when I'm reading it and they devote a page to…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 06 May 2017 07:08:11 +1200

So maybe we do have to start again: small, local operations that make enough to break even, that share their copy with other small outfits,
I remember back in the days of Earwig, Cock, Itch and Ferret (that's not a law firm, but 4 different NZ Counter Culture mags! Well…

Hebe

Sat, 06 May 2017 01:39:45 +1200

The rest of New Zealand doesn’t want to read about Auckland with a side-serving of Wellington. That’s why we don’t buy the papers, watch the Auckland-centric television news and self-regarding talk shows.

It’s not relevant to our lives. How much more wounding can get for a real journalist, one who…

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 05 May 2017 13:15:59 +1200

I think Zurich is fairly well sorted.

Nick Russell

Fri, 05 May 2017 12:30:27 +1200

I have such a hard time caring about any of this. Have a plan, have 20, the more the merrier. Knock yourself out. But the idea that a borderline large city, which is what Auckland is becoming, will ever really fix its sewers or transport or anything else is ludicrous.…

Sacha

Fri, 05 May 2017 12:18:07 +1200

The media coverage beyond the Bombays is dire, true. However Simon Wilson's central case is sound:

Auckland needs a sustained, focused, concerted plan. Because let’s call it straight: this city is on the edge of crisis.

We all know this. In transport, housing, health, education, crime, the drains when it…

Nick Russell

Fri, 05 May 2017 11:00:25 +1200

Meanwhile, on the Spinoff...

https://thespinoff.co.nz/auckland/04-05-2017/hey-bill-english-its-time-to-champion-auckland/

I think the perceived view from Auckland and its champions in the media (for which read most of the broadcast and online media) is that Auckland is terribly important and the rest of the country is jolly lucky to have it, so we should be…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 05 May 2017 08:07:33 +1200

call out the aggregators...
Because there's something in the air!
We need to talk about Facebook. And Google
The Strangler Figs of the communication ecosystem.
Will the parasite kill the host?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZoJ01FpD8

izogi

Fri, 05 May 2017 07:37:00 +1200

The only gripe I would have with RNZ is that while the likes of The Panel do at least feature opinions stretching the length and breadth of New Zealand

It that what The Panel is meant to be for? I thought it was just a space for Jim Mora's friends…

Rob Stowell

Thu, 04 May 2017 13:30:32 +1200

We need to talk about Facebook. And Google. It seems to be finally dawning on politicians that NZ giving these two behemoths the lion’s share of digital advertising revenue is a disaster. Not only do they not create content; they don’t pay tax here. I don’t think there’s a solution…

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 04 May 2017 11:30:02 +1200

Most of the stories on this merger don't really stress that both parent companies of FairfaxNZ/Stuff and NZME have Australian parent companies, it's not as if we are really supporting local media enterprises, and recent history shows that the Australians don't care for NZ on many levels.

Ianmac

Thu, 04 May 2017 11:23:18 +1200

The Marlborough Express has been an excellent provincial paper owned by Fairfax.
Experimentally it has changed from May 1 to publishing much local news only on Mon Wed Fri. For 2 weeks we get the Press on Tuesday and Thursday. And then...?
It is true that by the time news…

Russell Brown

Thu, 04 May 2017 10:55:03 +1200

Fairfax's CEO has already signalled shutdowns and divestments in response to the decision, but I think it could be positively healthy if the newspaper business deconsolidated.

One of the reasons local papers struggle at the moment is the way the two big chains funnel money out of them with steep…

Paul Campbell

Thu, 04 May 2017 10:13:25 +1200

A friend pointed out that a media monopoly means the end of competitive journalism, there will no longer be scoops if there's no one to scoop

Public Address

Thu, 04 May 2017 10:13:25 +1200

Discussion from blog post.