Best in the Business at Business

Best in the Business at Business

In line with its integrated, multi-media business model, Fairfax Media NZ today announced it is further strengthening the business journalism in both its daily newspapers and online through Businessday.co.nz.

Fairfax Media already has New Zealand’s largest team of specialist business journalists working throughout the country and providing compelling content to readers in print and online. Their work appears in the Businessday sections in The Dominion Post, The Press and the Waikato Times and on the Stuff Business website, Businessday.co.nz

From July 1, The Independent branded print version will cease publication. Fairfax’s Auckland multi-media business newsroom will be boosted by eight journalists who currently work for The Independent.

Group Executive Editor Paul Thompson said: “The move is designed to make sure that the excellent work produced by The Independent journalists is made widely available to the large number of people who read our daily newspapers and websites each day.

“Those journalists will form a crucial part of Fairfax Media’s multimedia Auckland newsroom, which provides high-quality journalism to all our brands in print and online.

“We believe it is particularly important to provide stronger business coverage online as that is where most readers of business news go first for reliable and agenda-setting stories.“

Independent editor and recently appointed Fairfax Media Managing Editor – Business, Fiona Rotherham said: “Businessday.co.nz is already the most popular business site in New Zealand* and a finalist in this year’s Qantas Media Awards. We’re building on our success by making The Independent’s high quality, trusted and influential business content readily available to readers on Businessday.co.nz and within the business sections of the Waikato Times, The Dominion Post, The Press and Sunday Star-Times.

“While The Independent will no longer be published in a weekly print format, all the best bits in the paper will remain, including the well respected Chalkie column and in-depth weekly feature.

“Readers can look forward to us focusing more on breaking news online and then moving those stories on in our daily and weekly print editions, including insight and analysis. The Fairfax business bureau will generate news on the minute, on the hour, on the day.”

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