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Billion-Dollar Kiwi Industry in Crisis

Conor English Chelsea Rapp, Chair, New Zealand Game Developers Association Information Opinion Australia is setting out to steal one of New Zealand’s most promising and innovative sectors – interactive media. Video games and apps are one of our biggest digital exports, earning over $300m each year, putting the sector up

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

RNZ living in the future? The game hasn’t yet been played! If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your

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Comparing Apples with Apples: The Spinoff and The BFD

The Spinoff has a similar-sized audience to The BFD but the similarities end there. The BFD is funded 95% by our 1600+ members and 5% by our advertising revenue. The BFD serves a broad church of political views that includes libertarian, centre-right, and conservative readers of whom the majority are

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Bluebird Cancels Free Speech for Evelyn

Bluebird Cancels Free Speech for Evelyn

This is about one thing: whether an employer should be able to dismiss an employee for a personal opinion expressed outside of work. This isn’t about Evelyn’s particular speech, it’s about the fact that she has the right to express her opinion on this issue, or any

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Twitter Bots or Not?

Twitter Bots or Not?

Craig Bannister newsbusters.org Craig Bannister is an blog editor for CNSNews.com. Following Tuesday’s news that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s original offer to buy Twitter had been accepted by both parties to the deal, prominent conservatives began tweeting complaints that they had suddenly lost thousands of followers

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Doesn’t look like it. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here to

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This Is a Battle We Can Win with Your Help

This Is a Battle We Can Win with Your Help

Stuff has reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media Minister

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The Moment You Limit Free Speech, It’s No Longer Free Speech

Ezra Levant from Rebel News made a fantastic video where he analyses Jacinda Ardern’s UN speech that railed against free speech and claimed that words are now “weapons of war” that should be as tightly controlled as nuclear weapons. Salman Rushdie has said that the moment you limit free

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff unlikely to earn any “revemnue.” from this clanger! If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more

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The Culture Clash at the Heart of the TVNZ-RNZ Merger

The Culture Clash at the Heart of the TVNZ-RNZ Merger

Peter Thompson Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Peter joined the Media Studies Programme at Victoria University of Wellington in 2011. He came to New Zealand in 1997, and lectured at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, where he helped establish the postgraduate programmes in international communication. The 980

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Our Readers Enjoy Champagne on a Beer Budget

Our Readers Enjoy Champagne on a Beer Budget

Last year Stuff reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media

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Why I Take MSM Coverage of Populism with a Grain of Salt

Why I Take MSM Coverage of Populism with a Grain of Salt

David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. There was a time when journalists from respected media outlets like the BBC, the New York Times and the Guardian, at least made a sincere effort to distinguish

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

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Raise Your Glasses to the BFD

Last year Stuff reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media

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Ardern waging war on free speech

Ardern Waging War on Free Speech

While our media waxed lyrical at Jacinda Ardern’s awful speech to the United Nations, the rest of the world is showing increasing alarm at Ardern’s waging war on free speech. It can’t be honestly described as anything other than an attack on free speech. Neil Oliver knows

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff can’t even get a direct quote right!! If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more

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