Steven Price

Steven Price is a publisher known for detailed analysis and commentary on media law, defamation, and regulatory issues related to broadcasting and journalism. The content often explores legal decisions, media council rulings, and the interplay between media standards and public interest. Posts typically examine case law, regulatory frameworks, and controversies involving media accuracy, corrections, and complaints. The publisher provides insights into the responsibilities of media organizations, the legal defenses available in defamation cases, and the challenges in media regulation, especially concerning new media platforms and broadcasting standards.

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Just a reminder of what’s at stake here. As I wrote earlier this year:

If The Platform and any other internet-based TV or radio platform are not subject to the Broadcasting Act, then they are not subject to broadcasting standards,

So the government has decided to abolish the BSA. Various people are crowing about it. They are pointing to the BSA’s decision to hear a complaint against internet broadcaster The Platform. ACT says this was an attempt to “police the

The BSA has ruled that it has jurisdiction to receive complaints against the online media company, The Platform. “Using an unduly technical interpretation to exclude online broadcasters would create a significant gap in the protections available to New Zealanders”,

Julian Batchelor has lost his defamation lawsuit against TVNZ and former Disinformation Project director of research Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa. They’d accused him in an online article of racist rhetoric, inciting hate and real-world harm.

Batchelor says this struck at his

An overlooked part of Talley’s Group’s defamation case against TVNZ is its attempt to get TVNZ to disclose its confidential sources. It applied to court to make TVNZ give them up.

This was a real test of our journalist source

It’s becoming a regular thing to see hackers get hold of reams of private data and threaten to leak it. (See recently: Manage My Health and Neighbourly leaks. And in recent years: Commerce Commission and Te Whata Ora.)

Courts readily

There’s a sort of maxim we talk about in defamation classes in law school. It illustrates a point, and it’s good for a chuckle. “It’s not defamatory to call a crook an honest person”. Because it’s only defamatory if it

I have long been frustrated that the BSA seems to have defined the balance standard almost out of existence. Balance isn’t required because the thing you’re complaining about wasn’t the focus of the programme. Or the programme’s not controversial. Or