Oram quits Fairfax citing 'editorial differences'

Fairfax held up Rod Oram's merger-hostile columns as an example of plurality during a Commerce Commission hearing. Behind the scenes, it was a different story, he says. UPDATED with Fairfax response.

Chris Keall
Tue, 09 May 2017

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Business commentator Rod Oram has resigned from writing a weekly column for Fairfax-owned Sunday Star-Times after 16 years, following disagreement over a column in which he said Commerce Commission got it right in rejecting the proposed Fairfax/NZME

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