This is edition 2025/73 of the Ten@10 newsletter.
Welcome back. It's 2025 and 20 years since I started writing about politics and anything else that took my fancy. Thank to my VIP members for making this site what it is today. In July we will be having a 20th birthday celebration. Stay tuned for more announcements.
This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.
Enjoy!
1. Turning around NZ for a few million $ by buying the NZ Herald is the Best Deal Ever. Calling on all Investors to fire the going-nowhere, lost Herald Board.
Rob MacCulloch
- 💼 A private investor with $10 million has bought 10% of NZ Media and Entertainment, which owns the Herald.
- 📉 The Herald is perceived as boring, failing, and serving no purpose to its readers.
- 📈 Other investors are encouraged to buy more stock and overthrow the old guard.
- 🌱 Introducing refreshing ideas into our domestic media scene is necessary.
- 📰 Newspaper circulation has declined globally over the past 60 years, impacted by inventions like the internet.
- 💻 The internet collapsed newspaper profits mainly by shifting classified ads to online platforms.
- 📊 Despite revenue loss, people still value and read news from established brands.
- 🏷️ Trade Me successfully captured the classifieds market from newspapers in New Zealand.
- 💡 Owning a major news outlet like the Herald could influence media bias and content quality.
- 💰 The Herald and other media outlets are now undervalued, presenting investment opportunities.
