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  • The news media meets ‘new media’: rights, responsibilities and regulation in the digital age
  • General information
    • About the Law Commission
    • Foreword
    • Acknowledgments
  • Call for submissions
  • Summary and preliminary proposals
    • Our Terms of Reference
    • Part 1: Who are the “news media” and how should they be regulated?
    • Part 2: Speech harms: the adequacy of the current legal sanctions and remedies
  • Questions
  • Chapter 1 - The context of our review
    • The world wide web
    • Web 2.0 and the News Media
  • PART 1: Who are the “news media” and how should they be regulated?
  • Chapter 2 - Online media in New Zealand
    • Introduction
    • The 'news' publishing spectrum
    • Moderation & control online
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 - The news media's special legal status
    • Introduction
  • Chapter 4 - What distinguishes the news media and why it matters
    • Introduction
    • The evolution and the role of the news media
    • Discussion
    • Preliminary Conclusions
    • Where to draw the line?
    • Applying the tests in the New Zealand context
    • Preliminary Conclusions
  • Chapter 5 - Regulating news media: strengths and weaknesses of the current approaches
    • Introduction
    • The problem
    • Strengths and weaknesses of the two models
    • Convergence: the elephant in the room
  • Chapter 6 - Regulation of the media – a new regulator
    • Introduction
    • Regulatory models
    • A new regulator?
    • The requirements of effective media regulation
    • The issue of jurisdiction
    • Should there be a statute?
    • Entertainment
  • PART 2: Speech harms: the adequacy of the current legal sanctions and remedies
  • Chapter 7 - Free speech abuses: quantifying the harms and assessing the remedies
    • Introduction
    • The harms
    • Legal redress
    • Limitations of the law
    • Non-legal remedies
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 8 - Free speech abuses: options for reform
    • Introduction
    • Reforming the law
    • A lower level Tribunal?
    • A Commissioner

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General information

 

Acknowledgments

The Law Commission is grateful to all those who have assisted us in the preparation of this Issues Paper.  Our preliminary consultation has drawn on the expertise of those working in both the new and traditional media.  In particular we acknowledge the contribution of the following organisations and individuals to the development of this Issues Paper:

Ministry of Culture and Heritage

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner

The Human Rights Commission

Crown Law

New Zealand Police

Trade Me

NetSafe

InternetNZ

Newspaper Publishers’ Association of New Zealand

The Media Freedom Committee

The New Zealand Press Council

The Broadcasting Standards Authority

Fairfax Media New Zealand

APN News & Media

Television New Zealand

Google

Facebook

Claire Browning

Sinead Boucher

Gavin Ellis

David Farrar

Matthew Harman

Judge David Harvey

Fraser Mills

Steven Price

Jeremy Rees

Rick Shera

Cameron Slater

Alastair Thompson

We also acknowledge the invaluable contribution of Stephanie Bishop who undertook research into New Zealand’s new media publishing environment which provided the basis for chapter 2 of this paper.

The Lead Commissioner on this paper was Professor John Burrows. Senior researchers and policy advisers were Cate Honoré Brett and Rachel Hayward.

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