New Zealand’s Public Broadcaster Cuts 60 Staff as Media Job Losses Continue

Up to 68 roles at Television New Zealand (TVNZ) will be cut, with around 35 of them from the news and current affairs division. The latest in a series of job losses at major media companies, with the news comes days after the company announced an interim operating loss of $4.6 million for the last six months of 2023. It follows the decision by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), owner of TV3, to shut down all that channel’s news operations—branded as NewsHub—on June 30, including its flagship 6 p.m. bulletin, with the loss of around 300 jobs. Meanwhile, earlier this year, Stuff, which began life as a newspaper publisher and then rebranded as a multimedia producer, shut down its video-based long-form documentary unit Stuff Circuit....