OurMedia | Fighting for Quality News in New Zealand

New Zealand's media faces a crisis. Newsrooms are being cut, journalists' wages and conditions are under attack and commercial pressures are seeing news quality sacrificed to improve corporate profits.

This isn't good enough - a well resourced news media is vital to the functioning of good communities and a healthy democracy. Without quality journalism, good technical support and decent media resourcing New Zealanders will not get quality and reliable news and that means the crucial decisions we make in our lives as citizens risk being uninformed decisions.

Help stop the decline of our media and our democracy by joining our campaign to take our media back. You can start by signing up to our site and putting a submission in for our review

EPMU raises concern over political interference in “wages” story

Posted March 13th, 2008 by epmu

The conduct of APN, one of New Zealand’s largest newspaper publishers, over a so-called clarification of National Party leader John Key’s comments in a Bay of Island’s newspaper abou

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Submissions open for EPMU Journalism Review

Posted December 18th, 2007 by epmu

The EPMU has opened submissions for its review of the state of journalism, a project that has come out of the Journalism Matters conference held at Parliament in August. We want to go to the core of what journalism should be and ask whether the news media are delivering it. Results of the review will go before the next year's conference where we will discuss how to put it into practice. You can watch EPMU Print and Media Council Chair Brent Edwards' introduction to the review.

Click here to access the review Terms of Reference and make an online submission.

EPMU launches new OurMedia website

Posted December 17th, 2007 by epmu

Welcome to the new 2.0 version of the EPMU's OurMedia website. We've got a lot of big plans for this site but in the meantime we're pleased you're here - feel free to watch the video introduction from our national secretary, Andrew Little, below. Or click here to view it on directly on youtube.

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Journalism Matters summit

Posted August 14th, 2007 by epmu

We've uploaded a whole bunch of photos from the summit to our flickr site. Click here to view. There is also audio from the summit available here and The Pacific Media Centre has some pretty comprehensive coverage of the Journalism Matters summit that's worth checking out, including some of the key speeches and reports on the events and aftermath.