Print Media and Journalism in New Zealand
Linda Jean Kenix2010, Media Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand
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Abstract
Print media is dead! At least that is what many ‘pundits’ continue to argue. But, if that is the case, why is Rupert Murdoch, managing director of media conglomerate News Corporation, still buying up so many newspapers around the world? And, if print media have become so inconsequential, then why even study them? Because even if the transmission of some printed words moves from paper to pixels, the power of words to transform society remains perpetually strong. Whether on T-shirts, magazines, bumper stickers, books, billboards, newspapers, fliers, posters or newsletters, print media extend into almost every corner of our lives.
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