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Midweek Mediawatch - suprise demise of a PM
25 Jan 2023Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights - back for 2023.
Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about the media response to Jacinda Ardern’s surprise demise. Also: big job cuts…
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Midweek Mediawatch: The year in review
22 Dec 2022In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell recaps the big stories of 2022 and the questions they raise for 2023, and delivers his own personal worst of and best of list for the year…
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Turning a more sceptical eye on the tech titans
18 Dec 2022For years, Silicon Valley's stars have been able to drum up positive media headlines with their visions of a future tech utopia. In 2022, several of them ran into the hard wall of reality.
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Mediawatch for 18 December 2022
18 Dec 2022Mediawatch's mash-up of 2022 in review; reversal of fortunes for Silicon Valley moguls in the media.
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Mediawatch's mashup of 2022 in review
18 Dec 2022Mediawatch says goodbye - and good riddance - to 2022 in the media.
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Midweek Mediawatch - more media merger manoeuvres
14 Dec 2022Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about the government’s media merger under the spotlight again - along with top brass of TVNZ and RNZ. Also: the death of two much-admired…
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Media merger meets mounting resistance as clock ticks
The PM’s hints this week reforms will be pared back in 2023 - and an untidy interview by the broadcasting minister - added to skepticism about the government’s public media plan. But while the media…
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Newspaper deserts - and some green shoots - replace rivers of gold
American newspaper editor turned academic Kenton Bird traveled this country in 2010 to see if the ‘news deserts’ caused by newspaper closures in the US could happen here. 12 years on, he’s back - and…
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Stuff’s regional rejig - and staff strife
11 Dec 2022Why has our biggest and only truly national news publisher Stuff just rejigged its regional reporting to have fewer reporters in its local newsrooms - and none at all in some at certain times of the…
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Midweek Mediawatch: A good news story gone bad
7 Dec 2022In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about a media tussle with Pharmac, a so-called 'trainweck' interview by the broadcasting minister and two interesting…
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Anti-vax parents create media conundrum
4 Dec 2022One press conference question at a Prime Ministerial summit kicked off a wave of social media scorn this week - and even criticism and international headlines about sexism. But media made a better…
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Programme-makers anxious about public media project
For more than 30 years the nation's independent producers have been able to bid for money from the public purse to make programmes via New Zealand on Air. But from next year, the new public media…
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Mediawatch: 4 December 2022
4 Dec 2022Handling awkward questions; programme-makers anxious about public media project; why Stuff journalists walked off the job.
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Why did Stuff journalists walk off the job?
Journalism’s never been an especially well-paid job, except for a few bosses and stars in big jobs at the top end. But industrial action is rare - and no journalists at major news media have gone on…
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Midweek Mediawatch - crime and ‘angertainment’
30 Nov 2022Midweek Mediawatch: Colin Peacock talk to Karyn Hay about how the media responded to anger about violent crime and death of dairy worker Janak Patel. Also: journalists walking off the job; the rise of…
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COP 27 climate coverage cop-outs
27 Nov 2022The latest global climate policy summit in Egypt failed to create binding agreements on emissions reduction. But COP 27 did pave the way for compensating countries bearing the brunt of climate change…
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Relapse reports upset gang-based rehab programme
A controversial gang-led drug rehab project funded by seized proceeds of crime was back in the news recently, thanks to headlines that highlighted the proportion of participants relapsing. That…
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Blowing the whistle on World Cup corruption
Qatar’s ‘sports-washing’ World Cup has backfired in PR terms, but it's taken the heat off world football’s corrupted governing body FIFA who gave it a green light in the first place. Mediawatch talks…
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Midweek Mediawatch: Follow the leader
23 Nov 2022In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about a blizzard of commentary about Christopher Luxon's performance, Chinese state-sponsored propaganda in the Herald…
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Media wrestle with ‘sportswashing’ Qatar’s World Cup
The FIFA World Cup in Qatar was already controversial before this weekend’s kick-off. Organisers have told the media to ‘focus on the football’ but human rights, workers’ suffering and and allegations…
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Framing farming’s important debates via the mailbox
Opposition to agricultural reforms gets a wide airing in the media, along with protest and lobby groups fighting the corner against ‘unworkable regulations.’ But farming industry groups - and many…
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Midweek Mediawatch - Ferns fire up rugby's rulers
16 Nov 2022Midweek Mediawatch:Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about a sporting victory that stirred emotions - and calls for a level playing field. Also: Stuff staff push back at bosses; an exploding whale…
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Mediawatch for 13 November 2022
13 Nov 2022The Herald's bid to confront big national issues and 'Rebuild Better'; annoying left and right wing doesn't mean doing the right thing; irreplaceable images from papers past on the block.
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Herald’s bid to short-circuit short-termism and tribalism
13 Nov 2022The Herald - and its publisher NZME - has embarked on a months-long series to push back at short-term thinking and political tribalism holding back the post-Covid recovery. Mediawatch asks the driving…
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