19 May 2020

NZME's battle over Stuff - is it the end of the road?

From Afternoons, 1:48 pm on 19 May 2020

It's been announced today that 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.

RNZ Mediawatch's Hayden Donnell joins us to discuss the significance of the decision. 

The Commerce Commission has declined a merger which would have created New Zealand’s biggest news media company
Fairfax Media NZ, Stuff.co.nz, 
NZME, NZ Herald.

Photo: RNZ/ Brad White

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