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Rise of 'mob censorship' this year as journalists faced a barrage of abuse
Opinion - New research shows being a woman or part of a minority as a journalist can increase the likelihood of being targeted with online abuse.
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The Week in Detail: Waitlist algorithms, teacher strikes, and the Kermadecs
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
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Tracking the guns
The missing piece of New Zealand's firearms reforms falls in place this weekend – a long-called for registry which will tell us who owns what, and where guns go when they're sold. Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - Gaza, a gaffe and a brutal review
Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about the media targeted in Gaza live on TV - and the Gaza crisis spilling over into sport on screen. Also - an… Video, Audio
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Covering a country under lockdown
Our media have plenty of ‘emergency journalism’ experience after several major disasters and crises in recent years. But covering the whole country going into lockdown was a new one - and in spite of… Audio
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The ghostly history of Wellington's Mount Victoria Tunnel
On all Hallow's Eve, ghost stories abound, including the haunting that lies behind the tradition of motorists beeping their horns as they drive through the Mount Victoria Tunnel in Wellington… Audio
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Book review - Best of 2018
Charlotte Graham-McLay shares her picks for the best books of 2018: Less by Andrew Sean Greer, He's So MASC by Chris Tse, and Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. Audio
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Kitchen Stories: Noha Ibrahim cooks food from Egypt
Audio 19 Jan 2019Noha Ibrahim moved to New Zealand with her family from Egypt in 2016. She brings recipes for Sahlab, an Egyptian winter drink; Mediterranean Squid Tagine; and Qatayef, a Middle Eastern dessert. Audio
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Musical Obsessions: James Nokise and D'Angelo
Audio 19 Jan 2019Comedian James Nokise is a veteran performer in both New Zealand and overseas, and the host of Eating Fried Chicken In The Shower, an RNZ podcast in which he interviews people about their mental… Audio
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Bernadette Vine: Just, like, actually how we talk
Audio 19 Jan 2019Bernadette Vine is a Research Fellow on the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project in the school of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University. She collects and analyses… Audio
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Tomi Adeyemi: Seeing yourself in fantasy
Audio 19 Jan 2019Nigerian-American author Tomi Adeyemi's debut novel, Children of Blood and Bone, is the first in her young adult fantasy trilogy. It's tale infused with west African mythology, magic and power… Audio
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Dr Paul Morland: How population shifts change world history
Audio 19 Jan 2019Dr Paul Morland is associate research fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and a renowned authority on demography. In his book, The Human Tide, Dr. Morland explains the influences of… Audio
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Sarah Masters: The curious history of the periodic table
Audio 19 Jan 20192019 marks 150 years since construction began of the periodic table of chemical elements by the Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev. Just 62 chemical elements were known then, but scientists have since… Audio
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Tension between Canada and Beijing ratchets up
Audio 19 Jan 2019The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, says all countries around the world should be concerned about the death sentence handed to a Canadian national accused of drug smuggling in China. Also… Audio
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Brexit: Anarchy in the UK?
Audio 19 Jan 2019After the defeat of her Brexit withdrawal deal in the House of Commons this week, British Prime Minister Theresa May has until Monday to come up with a "Plan B" for Britain's exit from the European… Audio
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Ashleigh Young: creativity and self-consciousness
Poet and essayist Ashleigh Young was the first New Zealander to win Yale University's Windham Campbell Prize for Non Fiction. Her second book, Can You Tolerate This? , is an acclaimed collection of… Audio
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Musical Obsessions: Simon Price on Manic Street Preachers
Welsh music journalist Simon Price wrote the definitive book on iconic Welsh rock act Manic Street Preachers. He joins Charlotte Graham-McLay to discuss the band and choose some of his… Audio
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'Isis followers and acolytes feel as if they’ve won'
Far from being defeated, as President Trump recently stated, ISIS has 20,000 to 30,000 fighters still alive and taking part in the jihad, a New York Times correspondent says. Audio
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Theresa May at odds with Parliament as Brexit vote approaches
The withdrawal agreement Theresa May has negotiated with the European Union faces a crunch vote in the British House of Commons this week. The British Prime Minister has been speaking to Labour MPs… Audio
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Three certified low-FODMAP recipes from Elle Joy
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects one in seven people. Melbourne teacher Elle Joy was diagnosed in 2013 and found, like many others with the condition, that a diet low in FODMAPs – short-chain… Audio
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Erin Rhoads: simple tips for reducing waste
Erin Rhoads has been living zero-waste since 2013. She runs the popular Australian eco-lifestyle website The Rogue Ginger and is the author of the 2018 book Waste Not. Video, Audio
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Kitchen Stories: Hanifa and Nilufar cook Uzbek food
Audio 6 Jan 2019Nilufar Allayarova and her daughter Hanifa Kodirova came to New Zealand from Uzbekistan when Hanifa was four (now she's 18 and about to head off to university). They explain how Uzbeks prepare and… Audio
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Musical Obsessions: Angella Dravid on P. D. Q. Bach
Audio 6 Jan 2019Angella Dravid took home the Billy T. James award at the 2017 New Zealand International Comedy Festival, and her gentle, awkward brand of comedy has also featured on Funny Girls, Jono and Ben, and The… Audio
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Adrian Sutherland: Sustainable, organic gardening
Audio 6 Jan 2019Adrian Sutherland runs a Facebook page called One Minute Gardening, where he gives tips to readers from his home in Gisborne. He is also a talented artist. Send in your questions for Adrian to answer… Audio, Gallery
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Living in a 'motivationally toxic' world
Piers Steel is one of the world's leading thinkers on the science of motivation and procrastination. His book, The Procrastination Equation lays out a toolkit for "how to stop putting things off and… Audio