In the National Business review last week a story covered Scoop Media’s innovative licencing arrangements, which have been in place for a number of years. Rather than a paywall that excludes everyone who cannot pay, Scoop’s licencing conditions make the extensive database of NZ and overseas news stories […]
Archives for February 2015
How free is free speech? A conversation for Wellingtonians
Chief Human Rights Commissioner, David Rutherford will be in conversation with SATRS board member Noel Cheer on the limits to free speech Information from the St Andrews Trust for the Study of Religion and Society – The SATRS Conversations Flyer for free speech debate St Andrew’s on The Terrace, Tuesday 3 March 2015, 12:15pm – […]
News – make it ours! Crowd funding campaign
At the Democracy, Ethics and the Public Good Conference last year the state of the NZ media, including its foreign ownership and poor quality of coverage, was identified as one of three key problems in our democracy that needed to be urgently addressed. Scoop Media is part of the new media that has arisen to […]
The crisis in New Zealand’s civil justice system
Printed version Barrister Frances Joychild has given Public Good permission to re-publish her article which appeared last week on the Auckland District Law Society website and in other legal publications. Frances’ paper looks at the issue of fair access to representation in civil legal cases and her evidence demonstrates that the situation for civil litigants […]
Needed: a public survey on social attitudes
I’ve just come back from living in England for six months last year. During the time I was there they had the referendum on Scottish independence. It was generally a pleasure to witness the quality of debate in print and broadcast media. Now we know the result of the referendum and while it wasn’t a […]
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