TVNZ
Shaking up the media landscape
Media oversight and regulation is described as messy, and screen productions desperately need help. Changes are in the wind. Audio
Midweek - foreign 'fake news,' entertainers (mis)remembered
The 'fake news' from Israel that strained our relationship with the US - and a long-suppressed offender's name finally comes out. Also: Tributes to the Jonah Lomu and Marianne Faithfull which missed… Audio
Screentime: Rivals, A Remarkable Place to Die, #Untruth
Film and TV reviewer Tamar Munch looks at the screen adaptation of Jilly Cooper's raunchy novel Rivals (Disney+), new Kiwi drama A Remarkable Place to Die (TVNZ) and #Untruth: The Psychology of… Audio
Hitting the ground reckoning in the US
Midweek Mediawatch - Kiwi journalists in the US ramp up election reflections - and some politicians here too. US papers cop it for u-turns on backing Harris; TVNZ backtracks on its 1 News website -… Audio
The govt turns 1, RNZ's web surge, RIP BBC Hardtalk
Midweek - The government turns 1 (or does it?), a 'Chris-tastrophic' political poll (or was it), TVNZ news not on TV, RIP BBC Hardtalk. Audio
Mediawatch for Sunday 13th October 2024
TVNZ's signaled more cost-saving cuts and started by scrapping its online news site next year. Meanwhile Google's threatening to cut ties with local news altogther. What's going on? Audio
Online NZ news on the outer at TVNZ and Google
TVNZ's signaled more cost-saving cuts and started by scrapping its online news site next year. Meanwhile Google's threatening to cut ties with local news altogther. What's going on? Audio
TV Trauma: Miriama Kamo talks about her trials as a TV journalist
Television journalist Miriama Kamo talks with Anika Moa about facing the trauma of her early life at TVNZ and the possibilities for her future. Video, Audio
Big broadcasters go public on problem of trust
This week RNZ and TVNZ both put out statements about public trust, transparency and how they make their news. On Mediawatch we ask the top editor from each one if they are feeling the heat over the…
Local media pushing back offshore invaders?
For years, the most comprehensive survey of Kiwis’ media habits has shown local media losing ground to offshore invaders. This year it says we’re ‘settling down’ and local media may be ‘stabilising’…
31 Heather du Plessis-Allan | Locked Down, Left Behind
Struck by the disconnect between Wellington bureaucrats and frustrated Aucklanders stuck in Covid lockdown, Heather du-Plessis Allan held the country’s leaders to account in tenacious style. Audio
MPs get primetime with state owned media
The Social Services and Community Committee has been told by state owned media this week that despite fears and perceptions, they’re still alive and well. Audio
28 Indira Stewart | The Hidden Cost of Poverty
As politicians argued about solutions to poverty during the election cycle, Indira Stewart took the discourse to street level, giving a voice to teens working full-time on top of schooling to support… Audio
27 Lisette Reymer | The Human Face of War
When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, Lisette Reymer risked her own safety to report from the frontline. Her empathetic, award-winning coverage expertly captured the human face of the… Audio
25 Mark Crysell | A Stopover in North Korea
With decades of experience as one of New Zealand’s most prominent television journalists, Mark Crysell recounts gaining unprecedented access to follow a set of unlikely New Zealanders into North… Audio
Midweek Mediawatch - changing stories on cancer drugs
In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the government's latest reason for not funding 13 cancer drugs, a mammoth loss expected at TVNZ, AI faking the… Audio
TVNZ news cuts and closures in limbo
TVNZ has been told it failed to fulfil obligations to its journalists when it decided to cut dozens of jobs and close news and current affairs shows. The future of journalists and top-rating…
Drama as the knife hovers over kiwi soap
Fans fear Shortland Street's 32 years of soapy drama could be coming to a close if TVNZ's cost-cutting knife hovers over it for too long
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Competitive current affairs across the Tasman
While TV news and current affairs shows are becoming an endangered species here, they seem to be still going strong in Australia where broadcasters back the shows with big budgets. But intense…
Media minister rolled as industry awaits plan
Melissa Lee has been replaced as Minister of Media and Communications after just seven months in the role in which she promised new policy to address the media’s acute problems. Paul Goldsmith now…