Mel BunceMel Bunce

New Zealander Mel Bunce teaches and researches at the Department of Journalism at the City University of London. She is the author of The Broken Estate: Journalism and Democracy in a Post-Truth World (BWB Texts).

These are crisis times for NZ journalism, in more ways than one

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The shock closure of Bauer NZ – and with it all of the country’s current affairs magazines – is a stark reminder of the fragile state of local media, writes Mel Bunce, the author of a book on the subject. It is a dark week for journalism in New Zealand, with the surprise announcement that … Read more