ABSTRACT
The concluding remarks about the state of New Zealand journalism 10 or so years ago, in Weaver (1998), described New Zealand journalists as “well educated, well trained and, in many cases, possess[ing] considerable power and influence in shaping public debates about New Zealand political and social life” ( Lealand 1998: 122). A number of subsequent surveys of New Zealand journalists (Hollings, Lealand, Samson, & Tilley 2007; Lealand 1994, 2004) support and reiterate these broad generalizations, but significant changes and trends over the past decade also mean that such conclusions are in need of revision and reassessment.
