Allowing NZME-Fairfax merger would be 'naive', academic says
Majority of NBR poll respondents agree the Commerce Commission should not allow NZME and Fairfax to merge. With special feature audio.
The biggest issue with a merger of New Zealand’s two largest media companies would be a loss of competition between each other, not other local players, a journalism academic says.
“One of the reasons Stuff and NZ Herald are sharp at the moment is because they are competing intensely for news and
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Chelsea Armitage
Thu, 12 May 2016
Thu, 12 May 2016
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Allowing NZME-Fairfax merger would be 'naive', academic says
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