With 14 community newspapers due to close, too many parts of NZ are becoming ‘news deserts’
- Written by Greg Treadwell, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Auckland University of Technology
Getty ImagesWhen media company NZME proposed the closure of 14 community newspapers last week, the so-called “news desert” encroached a little further into the local information landscape.
The term refers to those many regions in both town and country where newspapers that for generations have kept their citizens informed – and...
