Two New Zealand newspapers withdraw applications for Olympic accreditation

New Zealand’s two largest newspaper groups are not sending journalists to cover the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro because of a dispute with domestic broadcasting rights-holder Sky TV and the New Zealand Olympic Committee over accreditation terms they say will unfairly restrict coverage. NZME, which owns the New Zealand Herald, and Fairfax New Zealand, which […]

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