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Hacking social media down to size
9:08 AM.The world’s richest person put US$44 billion to make Twitter his personal property. Social media pioneer Evan Henshaw-Plath - who co-founded Twitter’s forerunner Odeo - is now here in New Zealand… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 9 October 2022
9:08 AM.FBoy Island controversy; TVNZ's boss on the concerns about the public media merger aired on Parliamentary hearings; can epic-scale social media platforms be hacked down to size? Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: Journalists become the story
9:03 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about journalists coming under fire from the subjects of their stories and an unsurprising scandal over a TVNZ reality… Read more Audio
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Hard stats and new voices enter the 'youth crime spike' coverage
6:00 PM.Two new pieces of reporting have added context and depth to the headlines blaring about a youth crime wave. Read more Audio
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More rancour on the road to a new public media entity
9:12 AM.This week a Parliamentary committee heard concerns from other media companies about the new public media entity, as opposition attacks on the cost of it intensified. Meanwhile a significant funding… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 2 October 2022
9:08 AM.More rancour on the road to a new public media entity; youth crime facts and headlines don't match; Christchurch Call digs deep into algorithms. Read more Audio
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Christchurch Call pushes against the algorithms
9:07 AM.New Zealand is leading a bid to break open social media’s secret algorithms as part of The Christchurch Call response, with backing from some big tech outfits. But without input from the biggest… Read more Video, Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - public media angst & awkwardness on air
10:30 PM.Midweek Mediawatch: Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about developments in the progress of a new public media entity, and where the money for the content will come from. Also: a couple of awkward… Read more Audio
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The push for open justice
4:40 PM.Journalists are shining a light on our legal system, revealing some important cases and systemic problems. They're doing so in the face of impediments inside the courts and uncertainty about where the… Read more Audio
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QE2, queues and cultural cues
9:12 AM.A long Anglican church service bookended by mostly-military parades became possibly the most-watched event in media history this week. But many media outlets struggled with what the Queen’s funeral… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 25 September 2022
9:08 AM.QE2, queues and cultural cues; the push for open justice; minister prods TVNZ over public media progress; 'tis the season for tomato angst. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: A right royal deluge of Queen coverage
9:18 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about the deluge of coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth - and the not exactly full and frank release of an… Read more Audio
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Platforms under pressure to pay for news
9:12 AM.There’s mounting pressure on tech titans Google and Facebook to pay local news media to carry their news online. Google has already done deals with some for its News Showcase, but other big names in… Read more Video, Audio
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Sketchy survey ruffles feathers in the capital
9:10 AM.A headline in the Dominion Post this week claimed there was “a clear favourite” among the candidates for Wellington’s Mayor in a “straw poll” capital’s daily itself had run online. But it acknowledged… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 18 September 2022
9:08 AM.Pressure on the platforms to pay for news; a sketchy political poll that ruffled feathers in the capital; photographers recall the Queen. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - more monarchy and Mike McRoberts
10:00 PM.Midweek Mediawatch: Colin Peacock talked to Karyn Hay about the continuing coverage of the Queen’s death as her funeral approaches. Also: a primetime and publicly-funded documentary about a star… Read more Audio
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Queen's death was planned for - but still stressed the press
9:13 AM.The media planned for the death of Queen Elizabeth the Second for many years, but when came it still upended the media - and the audience - in a way no other news could. And it also forced media to… Read more Audio
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Suddenly, a strategy for Maori media
9:10 AM.After four years, two reviews and one big false start, a long-awaited strategy for the future of MÄori broadcasting has been agreed by Cabinet, following substantial boosts to its budget in the last… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 11 September 2022
9:08 AM.This week Colin Peacock begins by looking at how media here and overseas reacted to the death of Queen Elizabeth the Second. He also looks at the reaction to a new government plan for Maori media -… Read more Audio
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Lifting the lid on Lotto
9:12 AM.Lotto has a lot of players, but not a lot of media scrutiny in the media compared to forms of gambling - even at a time when our spending on it is soaring. A new investigation shows people who can… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: Housing coverage contradictions
11:02 PM.Midweek Mediawatch: Hayden Donnell talked to Bryan Crump about a TVNZ emergency housing expose that also raised questions about coverage of the issue - and how the Herald set the record straight on a… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch 7_9
10:35 PM.Midweek Mediawatch Sep 7 Audio
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On the outside of the public media push
3:09 PM.Commercial media companies fear the new public media entity replacing RNZ and TVNZ will be greater than the sum of those two parts. The draft legislation obliges Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media to… Read more Audio
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Media backlash sparks tax tweak backflip
9:13 AM.The GST tweak to Kiwisaver fees that hit the headlines this week was a not bad idea, according to some experts. But the change that was buried in a dense Bill of tax tweaks got dumped in less that a… Read more Audio
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Taking a more sceptical stance for business
9:10 AM.While many big businesses are still posting big profits, workers and consumers are being squeezed by the economic downturn - and industrial unrest is on the rise. One business journalist tells… Read more Video, Audio