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MediaRoom column: Very few competitors, and certainly not the sensible ones, cheered the end of Today FM – because all commercial media are staring at the same 'great big wall' on advertising spend that hit its owner MediaWorks this year.

Axing the proposed merger of TVNZ and RNZ saved the Government a significant amount of money but left it with the problems the merger was supposed to fix. Mark Jennings looks at Labour’s new slimmed down approach to public media.

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has finished her parliamentary career with a rousing call for commitment on climate change.

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has made $NZ1.7 billion worth of savings by taking an axe to several of predecessor Jacinda Ardern's policies.

Research shows 15-24-year olds are switching off from TVNZ and RNZ and reaching for TikTok and YouTube. Can they be brought back?

Cantakerous, cranky and communicatively challenged - our politicians turned out all varieties of sub-par this week. James Elliott breaks it down. 

The government’s decision to abandon the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM) Bill came as no surprise after months of increasingly negative speculation. Officially, it stems from the prioritisation of “bread and butter issues” during a cost-of-living crisis, but it’s hard not to see this as a significant policy failure…

Hate speech, biofuels, the media merger and social insurance have been dumped in the worthy, but not important bin, after Chris Hipkins takes the axe to his predecessor's policies.

The state-owned radio broadcaster will keep its independence and get a cash injection after the Government scrapped the proposal to merge it with TVNZ

MediaRoom column: On the eve of a Cabinet decision on the proposed public broadcasting merger, questions emerge over the engagement by TVNZ's chief executive of two former National government aides to change the narrative and push TVNZ's view about the Government's plan.

The easy part is over for Chris Hipkins in naming his new team, now the tough policy decisions lie ahead, writes political editor Jo Moir