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Anger management and roadmaps to nowhere
9:12 AM.This week's call that Auckland must linger longer in Level 3 - but with picnics and double bubbles - upset those who wanted more freedom, those who saw it as waving the white flag and those demanding… Read more Audio
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Anthonie Tonnon: singing the news
9:08 AM.Many songwriters turn inward for inspiration. Anthonie Tonnon turns to the newspapers, writing about toxic waste in the Mataura Paper Mill, the housing crisis, the decline of regional rail and even an… Read more Audio
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Biggest leak ever: the Pandora Papers shed light on deals done in darkness
Five years ago, hundreds of reporters turned The Panama Papers into stories spotlighted the corruption and tax-dodging of some rich and powerful people all over the world. It eventually led to changes… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 10 October 2021
9:06 AM.Anger management, rumours and roadmaps to nowhere; Pandora Papers highlight deals done in darkness; Anthonie Tonnon: singing the news. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: A good 1pm press briefing gotcha
10:21 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Bryan Crump about an incisive question at the daily 1pm press briefing, a backlash against NZME's premium product; Hilary Barry's sweet treat… Read more Audio
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Home by Christmas? Political Covid plans overpromise
9:12 AM.Opposition parties’ plans for lockdown-free Covid management and re-opening our borders made headlines this week - kicked off former PM John Key last weekend. All of them dangled the prospect of free… Read more Audio
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Huge journalism jobs boost from public purse
9:10 AM.110 new journalism jobs have been bankrolled by the Public Interest Journalism Fund - the biggest investment yet from this recent government initiative. News media companies welcomed this big boost… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 3 October 2021
9:08 AM.Political Covid plans overpromise: huge journalist jobs boost from public purse; moving on from fast-food frenzy Audio
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Moving on from lockdown fast food frenzies
9:07 AM.History repeated recently when our media joined the fast food frenzy when Auckland switched to Level 3 recently. But some in the media are getting sick of it and others say the real story should be… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: John Key's media takeover
9:41 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch Hayden Donnell talks to Bryan Crump about John Key's media blitz, dueling Covid recovery plans - and some change-making stories from Metro and RNZ. Read more Audio
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Commercial radio urges MPs to rein in RNZ
4:11 PM.This week the big commercial radio broadcasters boasted of record-breaking audiences for their big brands when the latest audience figures came out. But at the same their bosses were also urging our… Read more Audio
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Confused claims of Covid-compromised cancer care
11:29 AM.A new campaign is urging people with possible symptoms of cancer to get a diagnosis - and never mind the lockdown. This week two media outlets claimed 'almost half of new cancers' went undetected… Read more Audio
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Covid complications confuse the media
Worrying breaches of Auckland’s Level 4 border fired up the media this week - just as the Government prepared to green-light a risky shift to Level 3 in the supercity. Meanwhile the media also… Read more Audio
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Collins’ snub startles media - but it cuts both ways
9:07 AM.National's embattled leader surprised the media by spurning some interview opportunities this week - and the public exposure that would have come with them. But while political reporters often… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for Sunday 26 Sep 2021
9:06 AM.Covid complications confuse the media; Collins' snubs startles media - but it cuts both ways; confused claims of Covid-compromised cancer care; Collins' snubs startles media - but it cuts both ways. Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch: Opining on elimination
8:40 PM.Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Bryan Crump on Nights. This week Hayden Donnell talks to Bryan about media angst over whether ‘elimination’ is still our Covid strategy - and the Herald aiming high… Read more Audio
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Rule-breaking fires up debate on fairness and privilege
As the lockdown in Auckland lengthened, the exposure of one couple’s rule-breaking prompted a predictably intense pile-on. Ironically, that actually helped to keep their names out of the headlines -… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 12 September 2021
9:27 AM.Mediawatch looks at how the media zeroed in on our social cohesion this week - as the current lockdown in Auckland became the longest we've had so far. Also: Mediawatch talks to the BBC's Peter… Read more Audio
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Peter Taylor: 50 years focused on a 100-year conflict
9:10 AM.Few journalists on the planet have more experience of reporting terrorism than the BBC’s Peter Taylor. He has spent half a century covering Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles - a consequence of the… Read more Video, Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - 15 September 2021
8:47 AM.Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Bryan Crump on Nights. This week Hayden Donnell talked to Bryan about the media facing accusations that they're undermining the Covid response by airing the claims of… Read more Audio
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Reporting Afghanistan after abandonment
9:12 AM.Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks prompted the US to invade Afghanistan, the Taliban announced they’ve taken the whole country again this week. Journalists who remain there are at risk in spite of… Read more Audio
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MediaWorks refresh fires up fans of outgoing veteran
9:10 AM.In the midst of a bid to move away from its troubled internal culture, MediaWorks hired new people for news and talk radio this week. But the sudden retirement of controversial veteran host Peter… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 12 September 2021
9:00 AM.Reporting Afghanistan after abandonment; MediaWorks rings changes and fires up fans of outgoing veteran Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - terror, hate and terrible tweets
11:04 AM.Mediawatch’s weekly catchup with Bryan Crump on Nights. This week Colin Peacock talked to Bryan about where the media focus fell after the LynnMall attack; Patrick Gower ‘On Hate’; some in-depth Covid… Read more Audio
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Media confront thorny questions raised by terror attack
9:12 AM.When a terrorist struck on Friday, the media were confronted with shocking reports and images - but also thorny questions about what happened and why - and how much they could reveal. Read more Audio