Newshub and Stuff have come together – the market provided a solution. A report from the AUT’s Journalism, Media and Democracy Research Centre found that general trust in news media and media brands continued to erode in 2023-24, from 42% to 33% . Merja Myllylahti, a co-author of the report, noted that journalism “has lost its authority as the main source of news and information. The pandemic-related Public Interest Journalism Fund, rightly or wrongly, added to the perception that the mainstream media was captured by government funding. But Newshub and Stuff have now come together – the market provided a solution, as indeed it should.

Source: Stuff May 23, 2024 17:32 UTC