I suppose I’m really interested in locally-owned media outlets that receive their funding from the readers/grants thus avoiding the ownership of oligarchs/conglomerates.
Yeah so rnz.co.nz is government funded, so doesn’t really meet this definition, which was the source of my question as it’s my most trusted but not really “independent”, though it’s not billionaire owned.
Stuff.co.nz is probably the closest to what you’ve asked for. It’s funded by ads, subscriptions, and user donations, among grants etc. But I wouldn’t normally call them high quality, though they do occasionally impress me.
RNZ are general news sites. They report on anything and everything and generally do 24 hours a day, with a lot syndicated from Reuters or Associated Press. They report on world news not just NZ.
The spinoff is funded from ads, grants, and donations, and is a lot smaller outfit. They don’t do general news, they do more opinion pieces and long form journalism (and various other things). You wouldn’t read them for news about the pope, it’s more NZ focused and often opinionated or with a clear angle. They talk about important issues but pretty much all of their content should be read as if it were an opinion piece.
We must keep encouraging people to support local cooperatives, democratic participation, transparency and decentralization. We will need to be creative in how we defend democracy around the globe.
Yes for sure. I think NZ’s democracy is certainly in a better state than the US and many other countries, I was just pointing out it’s not a utopia of democracy. Something to learn from but not without it’s own faults to correct for.
Yeah so rnz.co.nz is government funded, so doesn’t really meet this definition, which was the source of my question as it’s my most trusted but not really “independent”, though it’s not billionaire owned.
Stuff.co.nz is probably the closest to what you’ve asked for. It’s funded by ads, subscriptions, and user donations, among grants etc. But I wouldn’t normally call them high quality, though they do occasionally impress me.
RNZ are general news sites. They report on anything and everything and generally do 24 hours a day, with a lot syndicated from Reuters or Associated Press. They report on world news not just NZ.
The spinoff is funded from ads, grants, and donations, and is a lot smaller outfit. They don’t do general news, they do more opinion pieces and long form journalism (and various other things). You wouldn’t read them for news about the pope, it’s more NZ focused and often opinionated or with a clear angle. They talk about important issues but pretty much all of their content should be read as if it were an opinion piece.
Yes for sure. I think NZ’s democracy is certainly in a better state than the US and many other countries, I was just pointing out it’s not a utopia of democracy. Something to learn from but not without it’s own faults to correct for.