Non-daily print media are not considered an essential service, effectively shutting down magazines like The Listener and North & South and community papers across the country. Photo: RNZ / Bridget Tunnicliffe
The German company, Bauer Media Group, which publishes many magazine titles, including The New Zealand Listener and the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, Metro, and North and South - has shut down its operations here citing the severe economic impact of Covid-19.
Yesterday Mediaworks, which owns TV3, several commercial radio stations and Newshub, asked staff to volunteer to take a 15 percent pay cut across the board.
Earlier in the week NZME took Radio Sport off-air.
Kathryn discusses the dramatically altered landscape with media commentator Andrew Holden, a journalist for 30 years, and former editor of The Melbourne Age and The Press (Christchurch).
