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Newshub/Supplied Camera operator Grant Findlay may lose his job if Newhub’s proposal to close its Dunedin office proceed. The network had operated an office in Dunedin since the early 1990s, and had two reporters covering the area until late 2015. If the proposal proceeded, Newshub would have to rely on its Christchurch-based bureau or freelancers to cover Otago and Southland, an area of 65,000 square kilometres. The Dunedin bureau has covered stories ranging from the effect of Covid-19 on Queenstown, the future of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, and major weather events. The company was also looking at cutting the number of South Island-based radio journalists from two to one, leaving the sole position in Christchurch, ....