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Publicly-funded boost for Māori media
7:30 AM.For years Māori journalism leaders warned a lack of training, investment and opportunities meant Māori people and perspectives were mostly missing in our media. But more effort and money than ever… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: broadcaster's MIQ mission fires up media
6:55 PM.Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Lately on RNZ National.
This week Colin Peacock talked to Bryan Crump about the fallout from broadcaster Charlotte Bellis’s media campaign against MIQ. Also… Read more Audio
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Covering Tonga’s eruption - without communications
5:12 PM.That epic undersea eruption in Tonga was heard around the region - and recorded and analysed in minute detail, even from space. But a comprehensive communications wipeout cut reporters off from… Read more Video, Audio
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Silly season turns serious as Omicron arrives
It’s business as usual for the media again: all Covid, all the time with the whole country back in the red (traffic light). But even before Omicron inevitably broke through, anti-vaxxers and their… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 30 January 2022
9:10 AM.Covering Tonga's crisis - without communications; summer silly season gets serious as Omicron arrives; reputations trashed in summer scandals. Audio
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Thick-skinned stars savaged by summer scandals
9:09 AM.While Brian Tamaki behind bars made headlines here, the world’s biggest anti-vaxxer created bulletin-leading drama round the world when he was detained across the Tasman. Meanwhile in the UK… Read more Video, Audio
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Mediawatch for 30 January 2022
9:08 AM.Covering Tonga's crisis - without communications; summer silly season gets serious as Omicron arrives; reputations trashed in summer scandals. Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: Tova O'Brien barred from starting Today on time
10:56 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about the employment dispute keeping Tova O'Brien off the air and creating bad blood between broadcasters. Also - non-commercial RNZ… Read more Audio
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The Mediawatch Christmas Bonus
9:15 AM.2021’s almost gone - but not forgotten - though it would be nice to be able to forget large parts of it.
Before we flip into 2022, Mediawatch looks at what's coming up next year - and some more… Read more Audio -
Mediawatch for 19 December 2021
9:05 AM.2021 - media in the year of the vaccine; NZ news media in Oz-style ideological drift? Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch With Hayden Donell
10:45 PM.Midweek Mediawatch With Hayden Donell. Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: Anger, anxiety, and Kerre McIvor
8:13 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Bryan Crump about a sympathetic story on the plight of the unvaccinated, a new doco from TVNZ, and anger and anxiety directed at a… Read more Audio
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Young entrepreneur’s death sparks media backlash
The recent death of entrepreneur Jake Millar - at the age of 26 - prompted an angry backlash against the media - over coverage of his failed venture Unfiltered. Some in business cited tall poppy… Read more Audio
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Media angst and anger over ‘iwi checkpoints’
9:10 AM.Waitangi Tribunal scrutiny of the government's Covid response this week revealed that advice which could have reduced Māori vulnerability had been rejected or ignored. But that was largely obscured in… Read more
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Mediawatch for 12 December 2021
9:08 AM.Young entrepreneur's death sparks media backlash; angst over 'iwi checkpoints' obscures big picture. Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: Style v substance; service station sausage rolls scandal
11:00 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about style over substance in the coverage of Chris Luxon's first question time as leader, a Stuff column for the ages… Read more Audio
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RNZ’s Tahi -'the one' for rangatahi?
5:10 PM.RNZ’s previous plan to reach younger people collapsed in early 2020 after opposition to RNZ Concert cuts - and pushback from commercial broadcasters. This week RNZ fired up Tahi - a more modest effort… Read more Audio
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No man is an airline
9:12 AM.The National Party has new leadership, after an intense focus on the outgoing leader Judith Collins. But while no-one will forget her in a hurry, the name of her successor still seems to confuse the… Read more Audio
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An anti-intensification housing media blitz
9:10 AM.Opponents of the bipartisan bill aimed at enabling housing blitzed the media over the past few weeks. Many of the reports failed to include relevant context and balancing opinion. Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 5 December 2021
9:08 AM.Spotlight swings onto new National's new leader; an anti-intensification housing media blitz; RNZ's 'Tahi' - 'the one' for rangatahi? Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: Chris Luxon's baptism of fire
10:59 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about the barrage of tough questions that met Chris Luxon upon his ascent to the National leadership, a media… Read more Audio
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Bold business journalism play pays off with sale
12:35 PM.New Zealand Herald publisher NZME has shaken up the business news scene with an agreement to buy subscription-based service BusinessDesk. It rewards a bold moved by the founder 13 years ago - and also… Read more
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Bridges burned, Collins crushed, Reti takes the reins
9:12 AM.Late on Wednesday night’s not prime time for political news to break, but Judith Collins' late-night kneecapping of rival Simon Bridges kicked off the chain of events that left her on the backbenches… Read more Audio
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Just fed-up farmers? Or 'radical right in gumboots'?
9:11 AM.Groundswell took over about 70 centres nationwide - briefly and pretty peacefully - in last weekend’s Mother of All Protests. But the picture the media painted of who they really are and what they… Read more Audio
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New collective bid to make tech titans pay for NZ news
9:11 AM.The umbrella group representing locally-owned news media wants to negotiate with Facebook and Google for "fair payment” for the local journalism appearing on their services. Australian news media have… Read more Audio