{"id":63217,"date":"2024-04-10T13:07:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T04:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/10\/new-zealand-warner-bros-discovers-closes-newshub-tvnz-programs-bulletins-cuts"},"modified":"2024-04-10T13:07:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T04:07:42","slug":"blow-to-new-zealand-media-as-two-main-news-outlets-announce-programme-closures-and-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63217","title":{"rendered":"Blow to New Zealand media as two main news outlets announce programme closures and job cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 350 jobs to go after Warner Bros. Discovery closes all its Newshub news operations and TVNZ cuts programs and bulletins<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s news media has been dealt a major blow after two of its primary news outlets announced programme closures and hundreds of job losses between them on the same day, leaving the country with just one state-owned news television service and many senior journalists out of work.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed it would close all its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/01\/newshub-is-set-to-close-new-zealands-democracy-will-be-poorer-for-it\">Newshub news operations<\/a>, including the news website, the morning television show and the 6pm television bulletin, resulting in roughly 300 job losses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/10\/new-zealand-warner-bros-discovers-closes-newshub-tvnz-programs-bulletins-cuts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 350 jobs to go after Warner Bros. Discovery closes all its Newshub news operations and TVNZ cuts programs and bulletinsNew Zealand\u2019s news media has been dealt a major blow after two of its primary news outlets announced programme closures and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,238,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-media","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63218,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63217\/revisions\/63218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}