28 Apr 2023

Stuff to charge readers of three mastheads

From Morning Report, 8:22 am on 28 April 2023
The Commerce Commission has declined a merger which would have created New Zealand’s biggest news media company
Fairfax Media NZ, Stuff.co.nz, 
NZME, NZ Herald.

The Commerce Commission has declined a merger which would have created New Zealand’s biggest news media company Fairfax Media NZ, Stuff.co.nz, NZME, NZ Herald. Photo: RNZ/ Brad White

The country's biggest publisher of news will soon begin charging readers of three mastheads for its online news.

Stuff is launching subscription-based websites for The Press, Waikato Times, and The Dominion Post, which from tomorrow will be renamed 'The Post'.

Access to its main national news website stuff.co.nz will remain free.

Host of RNZ's Mediawatch programme, Colin Peacock, spoke to Corin Dann