Publications
Publications
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To order any of the publications below, please write to the Broadcasting Standards Authority. Contact details.
Code of Broadcasting Practice for Free-to-Air Television
Effective from 1 December 2004
View here or download PDF
Code of Broadcasting Practice for Radio
Effective from 6 August 2006
View here or download PDF
Code of Broadcasting Practice for Pay Television
Effective from 6 August 2006
View here or download PDF
Code of Broadcasting Practice for Elections Programmes
Effective from 1 April 2005
View here or download PDF
Annual Report 2006/07
26 November 2007
For the year ended 30 June 2007
Download (1.4mb PDF)
Older annual reports:
For the year ended June 2006 Download (2mb PDF)
For the year ended June 2005 Download (3.7mb PDF)
For the year ended June 2004 Download (2mb PDF)
Statement of Intent 2007-2010
July 2007
Download (565kb PDF)
Statement of Intent 2006-2009
June 2006
Download (670kb PDF)
Research reports
Seen and Heard: Children’s Media Use, Exposure, and Response
May 2008
This report updates information collected for a 2001 study by the BSA, The Younger Audience, and takes into account the significant changes that have taken place in how children use traditional and new media. Read the Report
Balancing Act: A review of the balance provision in the New Zealand broadcasting standards
by Martin Hirst
October 2007
The BSA asked Associate Professor Martin Hirst of The School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, to consider a number of questions about the “balance“ standard in the codes of broadcasting practice for radio, free to air television and pay television. Download the full report.
Children’s Media Use and Responses: a review of the literature
July 2007
The BSA commissioned researchers from Victoria University of Wellington and Massey University to conduct a review of recent international and New Zealand research examining children’s media use and responses. Download the full report (421KB)
Media Literacy Information in New Zealand: a comparative assessment of current data in relation to adults
July 2007
Researchers from Massey University’s Department of Communication and Journalism conducted a comparative assessment of international and New Zealand information about the media literacy of adults. Media literacy is defined (by the UK Office of Communications, OFCOM) as ‘The ability to access, understand and create communications in a variety of contexts’. Download the full report (558KB)
Assessment of BSA decisions
April 2006
Professor John Burrows of the University of Canterbury School of Law conducted an assessment of the decisions of the Broadcasting Standards Authority released during 2005.
Download pdf of the report (190kb)
Broadcaster satisfaction survey
December 2006
In October 2006 ACNielsen conducted a survey of broadcasters. The objective of the research was to determine the level of satisfaction broadcasters have with the complaints process. Read a summary of the report.
Significant Viewpoints: broadcasters discuss balance
November 2006
(Print copy available free of charge)
In May 2006, the BSA held a symposium with many of New Zealand’s leading broadcast news executives, media academics, and programme makers, to discuss the balance standard in the broadcasting codes of practice.
Order book (free), or download PDF version (320kb).
Issues facing broadcast content regulation
November 2006
In our 2006 Statement of Intent, the BSA posed this question: in the face of complex technological developments, what restraints on the distribution of electronic media content are desired by New Zealanders in the 21st century? A commissioned research paper looks at international options for and developments in broadcast content regulation models. The authors, media specialists Andrea Millwood-Hargrave and Andrew Stirling from the United Kingdom, and Paul Norris and Geoff Lealand from New Zealand, look at 13 countries and pose questions for New Zealanders to consider.
Download Issues facing broadcast content regulation (PDF - 1.4mb) and Appendix (PDF - 3.6mb).
The Future of Media Regulation in NZ: Is There One?
May 2006
The BSA asked web expert Russell Brown and media lawyer Steven Price to think about how technology developments will affect New Zealand’s regulatory framework. Is content regulation viable in the digital world? Read intro or download now (53 pages, 680kb, PDF)
Freedoms and Fetters: broadcasting standards in New Zealand
23 May 2006
$19.95 for print copy
This study focuses on two major types of broadcasting standard: the journalistic standards of balance and fairness in their application to factual programming, and good taste and decency, a standard that is applicable generally. Read the Executive Summary (Māori version) or download the full report as a PDF (1.6mb).
Portrayal of Māori and Te Ao Māori in Broadcasting: the foreshore and seabed issue
December 2005
(Print copy available free of charge)
A book by The Media Research Team, Te Kawa a Māui, Victoria University of Wellington
Download (180 pages, 1.02mb PDF)
Findings of a complainants’ survey
21 October 2004
In April this year, Colmar Brunton was commissioned to research the fairness and effectiveness of the BSA’s processes from the complainant’s perspective. Download the report of their findings (PDF 1.25MB).
Real Media Real People - Privacy and informed consent in broadcasting
July 2004
$ 19.95
Written by Wiebe Zwaga, Michael Stace and Colmar Brunton
More about Real Media Real People
Privacy: Interpreting the Broadcasting Standards Authority’s Decisions January 1990 to June 1998.
November 1998.
$ 19.95
Written by Michael Stace,
Monitoring Community Attitudes in Changing Mediascapes
April 2000
$ 19.95
Written by Garry Dickinson, Michael Hill and Wiebe Zwaga.
The Younger Audience: Children and Broadcasting in New Zealand
May 2001.
$ 19.95
Written by Reece Walters and Wiebe Zwaga.
Attitudes Towards Good Taste and Decency in Broadcasting Among Maori
2001.
(Free)
Attitudes Towards Good Taste and Decency in Broadcasting Among Pacific Peoples
2001.
(Free)