The NZ media company is appealing to readers to fund its reporting, days after its chief executive told Parliament government support was needed for local commercial media to survive.

The Australian government has ordered the competition watchdog to develop a mandatory code of conduct to govern commercial dealings between tech giants and news media companies.

Find yourself with a lot of spare time on your hands during the Covid-19 lockdown? Here are some video games to keep you occupied.

The iwi radio network hopes there will be a change in the way Māori media are resourced after the nationwide lockdown.

The government says a “triage” rescue package for corporate media will be announced within the next week – focusing on immediate needs to help them survive the Covid-19 crisis.

Parliament’s Epidemic Response Committee is hearing from media companies and the Broadcasting Minister as it discusses the impact Covid-19 is having on the media.

Mediawatch: Even before the first hints we had “turned a corner” with Covid-19, pundits were calling to loosen the lockdown. Others weren’t so sure.

The government backtracked a bit on its classification of community newspapers as non-essential, but many local papers are still in limbo – and out of pocket.

Analysis – After the sudden closure today of New Zealand’s most popular magazines, Mediawatch asks Bauer Media’s former chief executive why it swung the axe so brutally.

What would the world have looked like if the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2005, and people were kept in their houses for weeks at a time without the technology of today?