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Mediawatch: Turning off the news?
11:30 AM.Mediawatch looks at the results of the biggest annual survey of New Zealanders’ trust in news - which shows it’s on the slide for the fourth year in a row. For the first time it also shows many of us… Read more Video, Audio
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Big budget boost for RNZ after failed public media plan
12:08 PM.The government has boosted the annual budget of RNZ by more than 50 percent for the next four years after the recent collapse of the plan for a new public media entity. The broadcasting minister also… Read more
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Midweek Mediawatch - All the President's luggage
9:43 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Mark Leishman about Donald Trump getting arrested, trust in news falling again, a controversy involving a Cabinet minister and… Read more Audio
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Power outage - TVNZ’s top boss quits after a year
5:57 PM.TVNZ’s chief executive Simon Power has resigned and will leave in June after just 15 months in the role - during which a new public media entity to replace TVNZ was scrapped. He’s the second media… Read more
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Today FM turned off - and erased
6:10 PM.Why did MediaWorks kill a network launched with heavy hype only a year ago - which was also the source of news for half the country's commercial stations? The major media company also scrubbed the… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 2 April 2023
9:08 AM.The untidy end of Today FM - and 30 years of talk radio history; further fallout from coverage of the short-but-sharp visit of provocateur Posie Parker - and the protest that drowned her out. Read more Audio
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Media mismatch on an 'out-of-control mob'
9:07 AM.The protest that overwhelmed a rally for anti-trans rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull in Auckland last weekend was described as out-of-control and violent in some accounts. Two reporters who… Read more Audio
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Today FM goes up in flames after on-air explosion
9:51 AM.The future of MediaWorks talk network Today FM and its news service are in doubt after a proposal to close the station prompted an on-air staff revolt. Today FM abruptly cut to pop music after… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - incorrect Corrections ad?
10:00 PM.Midweek Mediawatch: Colin Peacock talks to Susana Lei’ataua about the advertising watchdog scuppering an expensive and important TV advert - and a surprise rise in the media’s income from… Read more Audio
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Lifting the lid on lobbying, ministers - and the media
1:10 PM.An RNZ investigation lifted the lid this week on lobbyists and how they communicate with politicians outside the public gaze or official oversight. But it also raised questions for the media about how… Read more Audio
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Posie the provocateur captures media's attention
9:12 AM.The fly-in fly-out visit of provocateur Posie Parker was obviously a divisive issue - with people going to court to try to prevent it and then taking to the streets when that failed. Opponents drowned… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 26 March 2023
9:08 AM.UK provocateur captures media's attention; lifting the lid on lobbying, ministers - and the media; a source burned and spurned - in the public interest? Read more Audio
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A source burned and spurned - in the public interest?
9:07 AM.An RNZ investigation this week revealed ministers and their staff are messaged by lobbyists using apps out of the public gaze - but discoverable under the OIA. In the UK, one minister’s messages… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - Lobbyists, Iraq, provoking the woke & angst over activist
10:06 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Susana Lei'ataua about revelations on political lobbying from RNZ, a new online outlet seeking to provoke the woke; how US media boosted the… Read more Audio
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Another top-tier departure rocks MediaWorks
6:02 PM.MediaWorks’ news boss Dallas Gurney has resigned, soon after the sudden departure of the chief executive who appointed him. It leaves a leadership void at the broadcaster at a tricky time and it casts… Read more
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A muted media response to March 15
6:10 PM.The media did little to mark the fourth anniversary of the March 15 terror attack, and some victims and their families say they are starting to feel forgotten. Read more Audio
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Climate policies burn on the bread and butter bonfire
9:12 AM.Chris Hipkins won media plaudits for his political strategy after scrapping or deferring some of Labour's policy in his latest policy bonfire, including ones to reduce emissions. But a poll released… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 19 March 2023
9:08 AM.Polls and policy bonfire create climate contradiction; a muted media response to March 15; apology; talk radio outbursts spark apology. Read more Audio
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Mis-match of the day at the BBC
10:00 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Todd Zaner about how a former footballer took on the top brass of the BBC - and won. Also: a confronting front-page story about a high-profile death - and… Read more Audio
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Kids and consultants - Media run the rule over opposition policy
9:12 AM.The National Party unveiled two dove-tailed policies last weekend - pumping up childcare subsidies while cutting down on consultants to cover the cost. Mediawatch looks at how the media ran the rule… Read more Audio
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Big bills for aborted media merger - but what next?
9:10 AM.The broadcasting and media minister spoke about the collapse of the public media merger for the first time this week when a Parliamentary committee asked about the sums spent on it. He gave little… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 12 March 2023
9:08 AM.Media run the rule over policy on kids and consultants; Michelle Duff on journalism and switching to fiction; awkwards questions over media merger bills - and what comes next. Audio
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Mediawatch for 12 March 2023
9:08 AM.Media run the rule over policy on kids and consultants; Michelle Duff on journalism and switching to fiction; awkwards questions over media merger bills - and what comes next. Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - transport reporting skids and u-turns
9:58 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Susana Lei'ataua about some skids and u-turns in transport reporting, a growing glut of daily news podcasts - and a new online outlet for… Read more Audio
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Documenting the March 2 convulsion one year on
9:12 AM.Coverage of the occupation of Parliament was wall-to-wall in our media as it dissolved into violence and came to an end one year ago this week. An RNZ team has trawled the overflowing archive of… Read more Audio