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Midweek Mediawatch - Herald denies Hobson's Pledge
7:14 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the Herald backing away from running another ad from Hobson's Pledge, a question going begging in the coverage… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 11 August 2024
9:08 AM.Mediawatch looks back at the media in the middle of political rows about race relations - and why Maori journalists want an apology over a controversial advocacy ad in the Herald. Also: how social… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - AI, the IOC & an AGM
10:15 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. This week Colin Peacock talked to Todd Zaner about reactions to the revelation the Herald used artificial intelligence to write… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 4 August 2024
9:08 AM.Mediawatch looks at a controversy over the use of AI artificial intellgince the New Zealand Herald - and asks if readers should be told when AI technology creates news content. Also: how the media… Read more Audio
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Herald deploys AI for editorial, admits lack of rigour
9:20 PM.The New Zealand Herald’s publisher NZME says it should have employed more “journalistic rigour” when it used artificial intelligence tools to create an editorial that appeared in the Weekend Herald… Read more
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Midweek Mediawatch - punching below our weight
9:02 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the Herald using AI to write an editorial - and delves into the media's disappointment over our lacklustre Olympic medal… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 28 July 2024
9:08 AM.Mediawatch looks at how the media reacted to the Abuse in State Care report - and the role the media played in bringing the issue to light. Read more Audio
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A jarring return to media Earth for Air NZ
1:34 PM.Air NZ has often had an easy ride from our media. But with domestic airfares spiking, that's starting to change. Read more
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Midweek Mediawatch - Biden's bolt blindsides media
10:19 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talked to Emile Donovan about how the media handled the news that Joe Biden had thrown in the towel - and the final report… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 21 July 2024
9:08 AM.Mediawatch looks at what our media made of the government's new emissions plan - and how best to cover global climate change without pumping up people's despair. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - Breakfast gets cooked
8:50 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights: Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about TVNZ Breakfast getting dragged into the Trump shooting debate, some NZME criticism from NZME… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 14 July 2024 - Trump shot shock
9:10 AM.Mediawatch looks at how our media reacted to the shocking news of the attempt on Donald Trump's life in Pennsylvania. And shortly before that news broke, Colin Peacock a look at the week's news and… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - false gods of sport
9:14 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talked to Emile Donovan Stuff making a solid start with ThreeNews on TV; the British media making a meal of their landslide election and local democracy reporting's… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch - TV3's phoenix from the ashes
9:08 AM.Last Friday the curtain came down on Newshub at 6 - and more than 30 years of nightly news made at the TV channel Three. But the next day the new 6pm bulletin by Stuff launched in its place… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - Suprise bill backing & more concerning closures
9:14 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights.
Colin Peacock talked to Emile Donovan about the government backing a law change - which they once slated in opposition - to help the… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 30 June 2024 - the great distribution dilemma
9:10 AM.While our government ponders policy to help news media companies cope with their crumbling business models, millions of us get our news first from Facebook, Google and even TikTok. It’s the same in… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - a PM forced to dish his own plaudits
5:50 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the prime minister becoming his own hype man, a strange malfunction in RNZ's push notifications, and a grab… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch
9:08 AM.Pundits have predicted the death of old-fashioned newspapers for years - but they're still here. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - Plaintive plane complaints
8:06 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about an emerging media consensus over our malfunctioning Defence Force aircraft, how rude words slipped though in music on… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 16 June 2024
9:08 AM.How the media copped criticism for reporting allegations of personal data misused for political purposes - and the struggle to get meaningful responses from official sources. Also: the popularity of… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - New jobs, more podcasts, fewer post-cabs
9:30 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about more moves between broadcasters, more new podcasts - but fewer Prime Ministerial press… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 9 June 2024
9:11 AM.Regional reporting cut back for NZME's new national focus; sports news that was too late - and too early; the controversy over cancer treatment funding missing from the Budget,can we trust surveys of… Read more Audio
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Can we trust surveys of our trust in the media?
9:07 AM.Recent surveys have said our trust in media’s falling fast, and made plenty of headlines. But lately new surveys say our trust in the media isn’t plummeting. The latest one is part of a pitch to… Read more
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Midweek Mediawatch - changing stories on cancer drugs
8:04 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the government's latest reason for not funding 13 cancer drugs, a mammoth loss expected at TVNZ, AI faking the… Read more Audio
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Shoddy statistics get the thumbs up emoji from media
11:00 AM.Many media outlets reported interesting poll findings this week about using emojis at work. The only problem: the poll was almost meaningless, statistically-speaking. But it's far from the first time… Read more
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