Category Archives: Newspapers

Where to watch NZ election coverage online + examples of coverage

Updated Nov 26, 2011 A few links on some of the ways media (and a few other organisations) covered the build-up and election night of the general election and referendum in New Zealand (Saturday Nov 26 2011) – #votenz. The (preliminary) election result Party Party Votes % Votes Electorate Seats List Seats Total Seats National [...]
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Bye bye Ellis, scholarship deadline, flying papers, and other NZ media news

A few snippets from NZ media that have been lurking in my browser the last week or so. TVNZ CEO Rick Ellis resigns Rick Ellis’ departure from the chief executive’s office at Television New Zealand has left the door open for a range of contenders to take over where he left off. One of those contenders [...]
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NZ’s Catalyst wins South China Morning Post website contract

Congrats to the Catalyst team: Wellington open source software firm Catalyst IT has won a seven-figure contract to develop the news website and supporting systems for the South China Morning Post. The English-language newspaper is based in Hong Kong and has more than 100,000 subscribers. Catalyst director Mike O’Connor said South China Morning Post (SCMP) [...]
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Waikato Times to become morning paper

Well, well, well. The Waikato Times, part of Fairfax Media NZ, announced yesterday it would become a morning newspaper as of September this year. Here’s the blurb: The newspaper is New Zealand’s fourth largest daily and is the only afternoon paper in the country serving a major urban centre. It moved the Saturday edition to [...]
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More job cuts, a reprieve and an expansion

Fairfax to lay off 45 advertising make-up staff in NZ New Zealand’s biggest newspaper proprietor, Fairfax Media is looking to lay off up to 45 staff by outsourcing their jobs to India, and to also close its printing site at Blenheim, where it publishes the Marlborough Express. “The company is considering outsourcing routine advertising make-up [...]
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