Above the Fold: As two of our biggest media organisations face radical downsizing, Duncan Greive asks our media leaders what’s going on, and what can be done about it. Up today: the people behind some of our most beloved TV shows and movies.
This is part three of Above the Fold: 20 Media CEOs, Two Big Questions, a five-part series running all this week and featuring a selection of responses to two heady questions confronting the New Zealand media sector.
This week will rightly be dominated by news about the news, with close to 20% of the journalistic workforce at risk of losing their jobs. Given that the political response so far is barely a shrug, however, it makes sense to move on to the next sector set to be hit by some of the same issues that have impacted news.
