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Paying the piper

The media also has to face up to the cold wind blowing through our economy.

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23rd April, 2011
The New Zealand Press Association, TVNZ 7 and Avalon Studios have all been given notice of their impending demise. The news comes as a blow, although not as a huge shock. Each of the organisations knows it has been operating on borrowed time, and almost certainly on borrowed money. The closing of the doors will be most significant, of course, for the people who work in each of the three institutions but the effect will be wider than that because each has had a role in informing New Zealanders about their world. The NZPA is the oldest and arguably the most important of the three. It was, ...

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