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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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December 2011, Wellington New Zealand, ISSUES PAPER 27

The news media meets 'new media': rights, Responsibilities and Regulation in the digital age

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