New Zealand is not a country short of news. Our geography, multiparty electoral system, and adventurous seals all make for plenty of good yarns most days of the year. But we are increasingly short of the journalists to tell them.
The latest shocking blow comes in the news that Warner Bros Discovery plans to shut down Newshub, a rebranded version of what most of us grew up knowing as “3 News” – leaving our country with just one English-language TV news team, and none that aren’t owned by the state. This will mean the end of the flagship 6pm bulletin and redundancies for more than 200 staff, many of whom will probably leave the journalism profession for good.
