Open AccessNews media ownership: How NZ is foreign-dominated
Author(s) -
Bill Rosenberg
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v8i1.732
Subject(s) - dissent , publishing , project commissioning , political science , media studies , control (management) , foreign ownership , advertising , business , sociology , law , management , economics , foreign direct investment , politics
If the concentration of media control in Australia in 1993 was leading to a loss of liberty to dissent at a critical time in Australia, it is even more true of New Zealand today. This article shows that ownership of NZ media is very concentrated in the hands of large overseas media organisations.