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Midweek Mediawatch - suprise demise of a PM
10:00 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights - back for 2023.
Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about the media response to Jacinda Ardern’s surprise demise. Also: big job cuts… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: The year in review
10:10 AM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell recaps the big stories of 2022 and the questions they raise for 2023, and delivers his own personal worst of and best of list for the year… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch December 21
10:16 PM.A roundup of the weeks & the years happenings. There's even an awards slot! Audio
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Turning a more sceptical eye on the tech titans
9:10 AM.For years, Silicon Valley's stars have been able to drum up positive media headlines with their visions of a future tech utopia. In 2022, several of them ran into the hard wall of reality. Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 18 December 2022
9:08 AM.Mediawatch's mash-up of 2022 in review; reversal of fortunes for Silicon Valley moguls in the media. Read more Audio
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Mediawatch's mashup of 2022 in review
9:00 AM.Mediawatch says goodbye - and good riddance - to 2022 in the media. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - more media merger manoeuvres
9:51 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about the government’s media merger under the spotlight again - along with top brass of TVNZ and RNZ. Also: the death of two much-admired… Read more Audio
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Stuff’s regional rejig - and staff strife
5:00 PM.Why has our biggest and only truly national news publisher Stuff just rejigged its regional reporting to have fewer reporters in its local newsrooms - and none at all in some at certain times of the… Read more Audio
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Media merger meets mounting resistance as clock ticks
9:12 AM.The PM’s hints this week reforms will be pared back in 2023 - and an untidy interview by the broadcasting minister - added to skepticism about the government’s public media plan. But while the media… Read more Audio
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Newspaper deserts - and some green shoots - replace rivers of gold
9:10 AM.American newspaper editor turned academic Kenton Bird traveled this country in 2010 to see if the ‘news deserts’ caused by newspaper closures in the US could happen here. 12 years on, he’s back - and… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 11 December 2022
9:08 AM.Media merger meets mounting resistance as clock ticks; Stuff's regional rejig of news - and staff strife; local papers: from rivers of gold to news deserts - and some green shoots. Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: A good news story gone bad
8:51 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about a media tussle with Pharmac, a so-called 'trainweck' interview by the broadcasting minister and two interesting… Read more Audio
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Anti-vax parents create media conundrum
4:00 PM.One press conference question at a Prime Ministerial summit kicked off a wave of social media scorn this week - and even criticism and international headlines about sexism. But media made a better… Read more Audio
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Programme-makers anxious about public media project
9:10 AM.For more than 30 years the nation's independent producers have been able to bid for money from the public purse to make programmes via New Zealand on Air. But from next year, the new public media… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch: 4 December 2022
9:08 AM.Handling awkward questions; programme-makers anxious about public media project; why Stuff journalists walked off the job. Read more Audio
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Why did Stuff journalists walk off the job?
9:07 AM.Journalism’s never been an especially well-paid job, except for a few bosses and stars in big jobs at the top end. But industrial action is rare - and no journalists at major news media have gone on… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - crime and ‘angertainment’
10:00 PM.Midweek Mediawatch: Colin Peacock talk to Karyn Hay about how the media responded to anger about violent crime and death of dairy worker Janak Patel. Also: journalists walking off the job; the rise of… Read more Audio
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COP 27 climate coverage cop-outs
9:12 AM.The latest global climate policy summit in Egypt failed to create binding agreements on emissions reduction. But COP 27 did pave the way for compensating countries bearing the brunt of climate change… Read more Audio
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Relapse reports upset gang-based rehab programme
9:08 AM.A controversial gang-led drug rehab project funded by seized proceeds of crime was back in the news recently, thanks to headlines that highlighted the proportion of participants relapsing. That… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 27 November 2022
9:08 AM.COP 27 climate coverage cop outs; blowing the whistle on 'normalised' corruption in world sport; relapse reports upset gang-based rehab programme. Audio
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Blowing the whistle on World Cup corruption
9:07 AM.Qatar’s ‘sports-washing’ World Cup has backfired in PR terms, but it's taken the heat off world football’s corrupted governing body FIFA who gave it a green light in the first place. Mediawatch talks… Read more Video, Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: Follow the leader
9:11 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about a blizzard of commentary about Christopher Luxon's performance, Chinese state-sponsored propaganda in the Herald… Read more Audio
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Media wrestle with ‘sportswashing’ Qatar’s World Cup
3:00 PM.The FIFA World Cup in Qatar was already controversial before this weekend’s kick-off. Organisers have told the media to ‘focus on the football’ but human rights, workers’ suffering and and allegations… Read more Video, Audio
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Framing farming’s important debates via the mailbox
9:10 AM.Opposition to agricultural reforms gets a wide airing in the media, along with protest and lobby groups fighting the corner against ‘unworkable regulations.’ But farming industry groups - and many… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 20 November 2022
9:08 AM.Media wrestle with 'sportswashing' Qatar's World Cup; framing farming's big issues via the mailbox; politics pundit calls it quits. Audio