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TV and radio producers, business reporters and senior journalists – #journalism #jobs

By Julie Starr | Published: September 6, 2011
New Zealand BREAKFAST PRODUCER | RADIO SPORT A rare opportunity exists to join the Radio Sport Network.  We are looking for a highly motivated individual who can demonstrate the following attributes:- Superior sports knowledge and news judgement; Proven sports reporting and radio background; Leadership skills; Able to work both ends of the day. Deadline: September [...]
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NZ news on the iPad

By Julie Starr | Published: April 6, 2010
Lance Wiggs went to the US, bought an iPad and posted some screen shots of New Zealand news websites as they appear on it. A nice little preview, thanks Lance. Here’s stuff.co.nz, herald.co.nz and nbr.co.nz: Lance looks at a bunch of other sites too and checks out how well ads and various functions work. Worth [...]
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Wrap: Murdoch, NBR, Fairfax, paywalls, book clubs and Glastonbury

By Julie Starr | Published: August 12, 2009
Phew, what a week. Rupert Murdoch gives plenty of notice that he plans to introduce paywalls on all his news websites (prompting speculation that he’s signalling to fellow newspaper owners to hurry up with their own paywall plans): NEWS Corporation chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch has announced the company will charge readers to access [...]
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Wrap: paywalls, NBR, WSJ, Kachingle

By Julie Starr | Published: August 2, 2009
Paywalls, the NBR and the WSJ Russell Brown wrote a nice piece after the NBR’s decision to charge for some of its content and posted video of the subsequent discussion he had on Media7 with publisher Barry Colman. That video is below, along with a Nieman Lab video interview with Alan Murray of the Wall Street Journal, [...]
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NBR gets a pile of free feedback and advice

By Julie Starr | Published: July 19, 2009
Lance Wiggs and Bernard Hickey, among others, have written useful posts this week in response to the NBR’s decision to start charging for around 20 per cent of its online content. There’s a lot in both posts, which make a point by point response to the reasons given by Barry Colman, the NBR’s publisher, for the [...]
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