Mel Bunce

Guest writer

New Zealander Mel Bunce teaches and researches at the Department of Journalism at the City University of London. She is the author of The Broken Estate: Journalism and Democracy in a Post-Truth World (BWB Texts).

When Bauer ended its New Zealand operations earlier this year, many magazine creatives were put out of work.

These are crisis times for NZ journalism, in more ways than one

The shock closure of Bauer NZ – and with it all of the country's current affairs magazines – is a stark reminder of the fragile state of local media.

By Mel Bunce | 3rd April, 2020