WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's two largest newspaper groups are not sending journalists to cover the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro because of a dispute with 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 have been in talks for months with Sky.
Both groups on Thursday said negotiations have reached an impasse and they have withdrawn applications for accreditation.
The conditions in question restrict the amount of footage used on news websites for non-rightsholders and how soon after an event that content could appear.