Strypey on Nostr: Today FM recently won a number of awards for its digital news and current affairs ...
Today FM recently won a number of awards for its digital news and current affairs productions. All of these went offline when the station's owners abruptly shut it down after only about a year on the air. This is a good example of why we need properly-funded public media organisations. We simply can't rely on profit-seeking corporations to to public interest media work, nor to keep it available for posterity if they do:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018893413/midweek-mediawatch-on-the-outside-looking-in#RNZ #MediaWatch #TodayFM #PublicMedia
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