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At 8.31am on a Thursday, Henry Oliver received a text message from his employer, alerting him to a company-wide Zoom call in 29 minutes’ time.
The day was 2 April 2020, a week into New Zealand’s national lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus. Oliver, who is the editor of Metro magazine, and his team had been scrambling to adjust to remote working and – with magazine publishing not among the “essential services” permitted to continue through the pandemic – a new digital-first operation.
Within an hour of that text, Oliver and the 300-odd other employees of Bauer Media New Zealand were told they were being made redundant, the titles they worked on would be put up for sale, and the entire company was to close. “That was still a shock, even though I was prepared for bad news,” says Oliver.
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Stuff journalists and editors reflect on how they covered some of the biggest stories of a remarkable year and how the value of journalism has shone through, in this series. The power of magazines lies in their ability to connect and engage communities on a level that no other media can. Yet for years magazines have been seen as a luxury - a nice-to-have item. The arrival of Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdowns changed all of that: Kiwis quickly realised that magazines - and their power to connect, engage and create a community - were, in fact, essential.The government however, thought otherwise.
Magazine publisher School Road to share content on Stuff stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Press Release – School Road Publishing Independent New Zealand-owned magazine publisher, School Road Publishing, has today confirmed a content sharing agreement with New Zealands biggest news site, Stuff . The partnership will see content originating in School Road Publishings portfolio …
Independent New Zealand-owned magazine publisher, School Road Publishing, has today confirmed a content sharing agreement with New Zealand’s biggest news site,
Stuff.
The partnership will see content originating in School Road Publishing’s portfolio of magazine brands also appearing online at
Stuff.co.nz, expanding the reach of School Road Publishing’s titles, as well as increasing the offering of reliable and engaging lifestyle journalism available to Kiwi readers.
Stuff.
The partnership will see content
originating in School Road Publishing’s portfolio of
magazine brands also appearing online at
Stuff.co.nz, expanding
the reach of School Road Publishing’s titles, as well as
increasing the offering of reliable and engaging lifestyle
journalism available to Kiwi readers.
School Road
Publishing was born in the wake of COVID-19 and over the
past three months has successfully launched four independent
magazines:
Woman, a
fortnightly print and digital magazine about New Zealand
women, for New Zealand women, by New Zealand women. Woman is
helmed by Sido Kitchin, seven-time winner of the MPA