NZ Herald owner NZME plans to cut 38 jobs as it reorganises its news operations.
【澳纽网编译】《新西兰先驱报》的所有者 NZME 计划在重组其新闻业务时裁员 38 人。

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It called staff into a meeting this morning and told them its plans to “reorganise and resize” its news operations across the national newsroom, including the NZ Herald, BusinessDesk, and Newstalk ZB.
今天早上，它召集员工开会，告诉他们计划“重组和调整”全国新闻编辑室的新闻业务，包括新西兰先驱报、BusinessDesk 和 Newstalk ZB。

It said it planned to publish and produce fewer stories, to focus on those that engage audience.
它表示，它计划发布和制作更少的故事，以专注于那些吸引观众的故事。

It said it would also further invest in video.
该公司表示，还将进一步投资于视频。

Journalists would be grouped into a team-based structure across live news, business, sport, lifestyle and politics. Each would be headed by an editor who would manage the team.
记者将被分组到一个基于团队的结构中，涵盖现场新闻、商业、体育、生活方式和政治。每个团队都将由一名管理团队的编辑领导。

A specialist print team would be developed to cater for print audiences with different needs to the digital audience.
将建立一支专业的印刷团队，以满足对数字受众具有不同需求的印刷受众。

The cuts are understood to be across 14 reporting and 24 production roles. Two Newstalk ZB vacancies would not be replaced.
据了解，裁员涉及 14 个报道和 24 个制作角色。两个 Newstalk ZB 职位空缺不会被替换。

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Wellington’s news team would become a single desk, and the NewstalkZB journalists’ reporting line will change to the head of radio news and sport. The NewstalkZB and NZ Herald gallery teams would become one, with the number of Herald reporters dropping from five to four.
惠灵顿的新闻团队将成为一个单一的部门，NewstalkZB 记者的报道线将转变为广播新闻和体育的负责人。NewstalkZB 和 NZ Herald 画廊团队将合二为一，Herald 记者的人数将从 5 人减少到 4 人。

Minister for media and communications Paul Goldsmith said he felt for people losing their jobs.
媒体和通信部长保罗·戈德史密斯 （Paul Goldsmith） 表示，他对人们失去工作表示同情。

“Ultimately all businesses need to be constantly re-evaluating how they do their news, how they can make it profitable so they can continue. That’s something NZME is working their way through.”
“最终，所有企业都需要不断重新评估他们如何制作新闻，如何使其盈利以便继续运营。这就是 NZME 正在努力解决的问题。

He said whether it was the right decision was a choice for NZME to make, and a judgment call. “Everyone is working out how to engage audiences in a different way.”
他说，这是否是正确的决定是 NZME 做出的选择，也是一个判断。“每个人都在研究如何以不同的方式吸引观众。”

For the newsroom leadership, six roles will be rescoped and a new role created.
对于新闻编辑室领导层，将重新界定六个角色的范围，并创建一个新角色。

This comes a month after NZME confirmed it would close 14 community newspapers impacting about 30 jobs.
一个月前，NZME 确认将关闭 14 家社区报纸，影响约 30 个工作岗位。

The company employs about 300 editorial staff across the NZ Herald, BusinessDesk and Newstalk ZB.
该公司在 NZ Herald、BusinessDesk 和 Newstalk ZB 拥有约 300 名编辑人员。

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It is understood a number of staff have been called into further, one-on-one meetings to discuss the impact on their roles.
据了解，一些员工已被召集参加进一步的一对一会议，以讨论对他们角色的影响。

It comes amid a tough time for New Zealand media.
这是新西兰媒体的艰难时期。

Towards the end of last year, Stuff disestablished video journalist roles in Auckland, while adding new ones in Wellington and Christchurch, cut audio roles, disestablished two senior roles to create a new head of multimedia content and strategy. It severed ties with style platform Ensemble, which it acquired in 2021 as part of a “life and style refresh”.
去年年底，Stuff 取消了奥克兰的视频记者职位，同时在惠灵顿和基督城增加了新的职位，削减了音频职位，取消了两个高级职位，创建了新的多媒体内容和战略主管。它切断了与时尚平台 Ensemble 的联系，后者于 2021 年被收购，作为 “生活和风格更新” 的一部分。

Whakaata Māori brought an end to its daily news bulletin and TVNZ is going through still more cost-cutting.
Whakaata Māori 结束了其每日新闻公告，TVNZ 正在进行更多的成本削减。

The industry has been grappling with significantly declining advertising revenue. The Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill, which many had cited as a potential help for the sector, has not progressed as some had hoped.
该行业一直在努力应对广告收入大幅下降的问题。许多人认为《公平数字新闻谈判法案》对该行业有潜在帮助，但并没有像一些人希望的那样取得进展。

来源：RNZ

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