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Newsroom secures Holden as first sponsor—UPDATED
Newsroom, the news website being launched by Tim Murphy and Mark Jennings, has secured car brand Holden as its first founding partner.
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Easy to say, hard to do: the thinking behind Murphy and Jennings’ Newsroom
The news this week of veteran news heads Mark Jennings and Tim Murphy launching a news service was widely celebrated across journalism circles, with many applauding the arrival of a publication dedicated to, as Murphy said, focusing on quality and “doing the news”. But was that excitement a bit pre-emptive? And – the question of the ages – how is it going to pay for it all?
News
‘Well, that’s one way to announce your arrival’
Former Herald editor Tim Murphy gives us the lowdown on Newsroom, a news venture he’s launching with his co-conspirator Mark Jennings. And as it turns out, they’ve already had some free PR from the Commerce Commission.
News
Dream team? Mark Jennings and Tim Murphy join forces, announce plans to launch news site
Former NZ Herald editor-in-chief Tim Murphy and former MediaWorks head of news Mark Jennings have finally revealed what they’re doing next.
Movings & Shakings
MediaWorks’ Mark Jennings to be replaced by NineMSN’s Hal Crawford
In a staff email sent out this afternoon MediaWorks confirmed that veteran Mark Jennings is moving on from the organisation after 25 years leading 3News.
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Future Tense: Current affairs has a future, but it’s unlikely to be found in a teleprompter
MediaWorks’ decision this week to review 3D was, much like in the case of Campbell Live, met with a unanimous groan across the industry, as another sign that journalism isn’t commercially viable. But this isn’t entirely true. Current affairs reporting has a future, but the way it’s presented might need to change.
Movings & Shakings
Movings/Shakings: 4 December
Run the Red promotes from within, Toni Street gets back on the couch, Sports Tonight draws to a close and AWARD School names its top students.
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Honours shared in two horse TV race, as TV3 takes news and TVNZ takes drama
The TV industry, here and around the world, is currently dealing with some major challenges, but all that serious business was mostly forgotten on Saturday night as the stars—from in front of and from behind the camera—of the local industry turned up to accentuate the positive at the 2012 New Zealand Television Awards. And in the annual (mostly) two horse race, it was MediaWorks that wrested the big news prizes off TVNZ, and TVNZ that took home most of the prizes in the drama and reality sections.