The Len Brown Affair: The roles of new and old media in a New Zealand political sex scandal
The power of online media to influence New Zealand local government politics was made clear in 2013 when a blogger revealed that Len Brown, the popular mayor of Auckland, had conducted a two-year, extramarital affair. The mainstream media picked up the story, Brown’s popularity collapsed and in lat...
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| Language: | English |
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Pacific Media Centre
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Pacific Journalism Review |
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/63 |