Antony Young: the media exec launching a Wellington news title

Antony Young: the media exec launching a Wellington news title
Antony Young is the founder of CapitalNZ. (Image: CapitalNZ)
Daniel Dunkley
Who’d want to start a news publication right now? As advertising revenue dries up, margins become squeezed and the industry faces pressure from Big Tech, you’d surely have to be mad to wade into the sector. Antony Young, co-founder of media agency Media Lab and the man behind Wellington news outlet CapitalNZ, doesn’t quite see it that way. The experienced media executive and one-time leader of Mindshare’s North American business has an eye on hyper-local news in the capital. CapitalNZ, a new digital-o...

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