Better Public Media welcomes the Ministry for Culture & Heritage’s Media Reform discussion paper. The document sets out a range of proposals intended to address some of the pressing regulatory and structural issues in the media sector, and canvasses a significant overhaul of the regulatory and funding framework established by the 1989 Broadcasting Act.
The proposals include merging the screen funding agencies, NZ On Air and the NZ Film Commission into a single entity, and a restructuring of the Broadcasting Standards Authority’s regulatory functions and standards to cover all ‘professional media’ regardless of its distribution platform.
