One of New Zealand’s most senior journalism figures, Gavin Ellis, has issued a blunt warning to the government: act within three years to support the media, or see it face “extinction.”
The dire prediction is contained in a new report, If not journalists, then who? published by the Centre for Informed Futures, an independent think tank and research centre based at the University of Auckland and headed by Sir Peter Gluckman, the former Prime Minister’s science advisor.
