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Covering Tonga’s eruption - without communications
30 Jan 2022That epic undersea eruption in Tonga was heard around the region - and recorded and analysed in minute detail, even from space. But a comprehensive communications wipeout cut reporters off from…
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Silly season turns serious as Omicron arrives
It’s business as usual for the media again: all Covid, all the time with the whole country back in the red (traffic light). But even before Omicron inevitably broke through, anti-vaxxers and their…
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Thick-skinned stars savaged by summer scandals
While Brian Tamaki behind bars made headlines here, the world’s biggest anti-vaxxer created bulletin-leading drama round the world when he was detained across the Tasman. Meanwhile in the UK…
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Midweek Mediawatch: Tova O'Brien barred from starting Today on time
26 Jan 2022In this week's Midweek Mediawatch Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about the employment dispute keeping Tova O'Brien off the air and creating bad blood between broadcasters. Also - non-commercial RNZ…
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The Mediawatch Christmas Bonus
26 Dec 20212021’s almost gone - but not forgotten - though it would be nice to be able to forget large parts of it.
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Before we flip into 2022, Mediawatch looks at what's coming up next year - and some more… -
Mediawatch for 19 December 2021
19 Dec 20212021 - media in the year of the vaccine; NZ news media in Oz-style ideological drift?
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Midweek Mediawatch: Anger, anxiety, and Kerre McIvor
15 Dec 2021In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Bryan Crump about a sympathetic story on the plight of the unvaccinated, a new doco from TVNZ, and anger and anxiety directed at a…
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Media angst and anger over ‘iwi checkpoints’
Waitangi Tribunal scrutiny of the government's Covid response this week revealed that advice which could have reduced Māori vulnerability had been rejected or ignored. But that was largely obscured in…
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Young entrepreneur’s death sparks media backlash
The recent death of entrepreneur Jake Millar - at the age of 26 - prompted an angry backlash against the media - over coverage of his failed venture Unfiltered. Some in business cited tall poppy…
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Midweek Mediawatch: Style v substance; service station sausage rolls scandal
8 Dec 2021In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about style over substance in the coverage of Chris Luxon's first question time as leader, a Stuff column for the ages…
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No man is an airline
The National Party has new leadership, after an intense focus on the outgoing leader Judith Collins. But while no-one will forget her in a hurry, the name of her successor still seems to confuse the…
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An anti-intensification housing media blitz
5 Dec 2021Opponents of the bipartisan bill aimed at enabling housing blitzed the media over the past few weeks. Many of the reports failed to include relevant context and balancing opinion.
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RNZ’s Tahi -'the one' for rangatahi?
5 Dec 2021RNZ’s previous plan to reach younger people collapsed in early 2020 after opposition to RNZ Concert cuts - and pushback from commercial broadcasters. This week RNZ fired up Tahi - a more modest effort…
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Midweek Mediawatch: Chris Luxon's baptism of fire
1 Dec 2021In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about the barrage of tough questions that met Chris Luxon upon his ascent to the National leadership, a media…
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Bold business journalism play pays off with sale
New Zealand Herald publisher NZME has shaken up the business news scene with an agreement to buy subscription-based service BusinessDesk. It rewards a bold moved by the founder 13 years ago - and also…
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Just fed-up farmers? Or 'radical right in gumboots'?
Groundswell took over about 70 centres nationwide - briefly and pretty peacefully - in last weekend’s Mother of All Protests. But the picture the media painted of who they really are and what they…
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New collective bid to make tech titans pay for NZ news
The umbrella group representing locally-owned news media wants to negotiate with Facebook and Google for "fair payment” for the local journalism appearing on their services. Australian news media have…
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Bridges burned, Collins crushed, Reti takes the reins
Late on Wednesday night’s not prime time for political news to break, but Judith Collins' late-night kneecapping of rival Simon Bridges kicked off the chain of events that left her on the backbenches…
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Worlds of Journalism Study
27 Nov 2021The world's most comprehensive survey of journalism needs new Zealand journalists to take part to better understand the changes that are taking place in the media - and the role of journalism in a…
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Barry Soper's press conference standoffs - a history
26 Nov 2021Newstalk ZB political editor Barry Soper crossed swords with Jacinda Ardern in Monday's post-cabinet press conference. The resulting media coverage missed that it was only the latest skirmish in a…
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MediaWorks reveals plan to ditch Magic Talk, launch new talk brand
25 Nov 2021MediaWorks has revealed a lineup of familiar names for its new talk radio station, which is set to take over from Magic Talk early next year.
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Midweek Mediawatch: Soper's simmering stand-off
26 Nov 2021In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about a Cold War brewing between Newstalk ZB's political editor and the PM, misinformation in local papers - and the need for…
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Looking back on tech titans' takeover of media
21 Nov 2021Facebook’s all-powerful founder has rebooted his trillion-dollar company as ‘Meta’ and he’s planning for a new virtual ‘metaverse’ for us in five years. But the real world mess Facebook’s made in…
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Radio in NZ 100 not out. But what next?
21 Nov 2021Radio in New Zealand marked its centenary this week with tributes to its staying power in the past - and confident claims it’s here to stay for the future. Several stations now have bigger audiences…
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