Story: Media and politics

More links and websites

• History of censorship in New Zealand

  A timeline of censorship in New Zealand.

• News media ownership in New Zealand

  A 2008 breakdown of media ownership, by Bill Rosenberg (PDF, 1.06 MB).

• Reporting and broadcasting – Parliament’s people

  NZ History on the reporting of Parliament, including Hansard and the press gallery.

• Sound of New Zealand: 100 years of radio

  The history of controversy and censorship of radio, with broadcaster Jack Perkins.

• Television in New Zealand

  A history of television in New Zealand from NZ History, including information on election coverage.

More suggestions and sources

• Day, Patrick. The making of the New Zealand press: a study of the organizational and political concerns of New Zealand newspaper controllers, 1840–1880. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1990.
• Day, Patrick. The radio years. Auckland: Auckland University Press in Association with the Broadcasting History Trust, 1994.
• Day, Patrick. Voice and vision. Auckland: Auckland University Press in Association with the Broadcasting History Trust, 2000.
• Griffith, Penny, Ross Harvey, and Keith Maslen, eds. Book & print in New Zealand: a guide to print culture in Aotearoa. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1997.
• Hayward, Janine, and Chris Rudd, eds. Political communications in New Zealand. Auckland: Pearson Education, 2004.