Colin Peacock

This true spy story has topped the podcast charts for the past few weeks… how New Zealand spies worked with MI6 to break into the Czechoslovakian embassy in Wellington back in 1986 and the Cold War… Audio

This week Mediawatch looks at how the media lifted the lid on startling failures in Covid-19 quarantine.Also: new developments in a major review of Maori media - and claims its critics have… Audio

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin Karyn is joined by Colin Peacock to look at a hectic few days in the New Zealand media sector.  Audio

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin talks to Karyn Hay about a Fawlty woke joke that turned out not to be a Major, some deep and troubling stuff from Stuff - and how the comeback… Audio

The state television broadcaster, TVNZ, has announced it needs to cut nearly 100 jobs to protect its balance sheet.

Many commercial media companies are facing difficulties, with advertising revenue… Audio

This week, the police canned its controversial Armed Response Teams after plenty of critical coverage in the media - much of it drawing parallels with George Floyd’s killing in the US and the conduct… Audio

This week's move down to Level One was heralded by the media here and overseas as a major achievement - and the welcome return of more freedom in our daily lives, including sport with fans in  the… Audio

A long-awaited and overdue official report on the future of Māori media has raised fears among journalists that a ‘one-stop-shop’ for Māori news may reduce the range of reporting in order to save… Audio

Journalists covering the US protests have been targeted by militarised police officers and actual military police alike - and in some places, the protesters themselves. Many blame Trump’s ‘enemy of… Video, Audio

A controversial column in the New York Times headlined “Send in The Troops” prompted a staff backlash at the prestigious paper before bosses decided  - a little to late - it was not fit to print Audio

Reporters cop it in land of the free-for-all; prestigious paper's staff in revolt over article not fit to print; the end of history: documentary photography in peril without publishers. Audio

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin Peacock speaks with Karyn about one reporter caught in the crossfire and others copping blowback from the upheaval in the US - and musical… Audio

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin talks to Karyn Hay about reporters caught in the crossfire and others copping blowback from the upheaval in the US - and musical echoes of… Video, Audio

Two years ago the government said we had "one shot" at wiping out Mycoplasma Bovis, echoing its later stance on Covid-19. It also learned from communications failures in its handling of the cattle… Audio

Popular weeklies Woman’s Day and New Idea were among a whole host of top titles closed down last month by Bauer Media. Lately they’ve reappeared in the shops as Aussie editions with a little bit of… Audio

It's been hailed as a bold, dramatic and brave move.

Yesterday it was announced that the chief executive of Stuff has bought the company for $1 and has plans for staff shareholders.

Sinead Boucher… Audio

MediaWorks has announced it is cutting 130 jobs to deal with the economic fallout from Covid-19, and Stuff has been sold for $1 by its Australian owner Nine Entertainment.

Māni Dunlop spoke with… Audio

The return of TV channels’ political opinion polls piled the pressure on the National Party’s leader and kickstarted Friday’s move to replace him. Covid-19 has changed many things in politics and… Audio