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Australia puts big tech under more pressure
16 Jul 2023These days the platforms that pump news round the internet make more money out of it than the media who make it. In Australia they’ve done deals to ensure the media get more. Now the government also…
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Mediawatch for 16 July 2023
16 Jul 2023Warnings of a 'mortgage bomb' about to blow up; Australia puts big tech' under more pressure; Mary Holm's 25 years with readers and writers.
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Mary Holm - 25 years with readers and writers
16 Jul 2023Mary Holm's been writing about personal finance weekly for the same paper for more than 25 years. But she tells Mediawatch it's really the readers who have kept it going.
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Midweek Mediawatch - Greens gazumped; Cane caned
12 Jul 2023In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Mark Leishman about the Greens' entire manifesto crowded out by coverage of a single law and order tweak from Act . Also a Mediawatch…
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Christopher Luxon, the unknowable man
9 Jul 2023Political reporters often say people need to get to know National leader Christopher Luxon. But he's ubiquitous in the media and has been in the job 18 months. Is it possible he's unknowable? Or is it…
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The death and rebirth of a long-lasting column
9 Jul 2023The New Zealand Herald column Sideswipe ended in May after a 21-year run. Its creator attributes its longevity to good curation and building a community.
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Midweek Mediawatch - tipsy Tory & allegedly angry Allan
5 Jul 2023Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Mark Leishman about the reaction to two politicians who both filled the front page of The Post this past week: cabinet minister Kiri Allan and Wellington…
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Shock of the news - and the state of the arts
A new report says the arts and culture get just half of the space in our media that's devoted to sport. Mediawatch asks a leading local culture critic if the arts are just a 'nice to have' for our…
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Mediawatch for 2 July 2023
2 Jul 2023The shock of the news - and a critical shortage in the state of the arts; TVNZ top-table changes; reserving the right to be wrong - even in an emergency.
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The right to be wrong - even in a crisis
2 Jul 2023Dolphins mating in a prime-time TV documentary was deemed a breach of broadcasting standards this week by the broadcasting watchdog - but dismissing official information and experts on air during…
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Midweek Mediawatch - a Titanic amount of coverage
28 Jun 2023In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Mark Leishman about a titanic amount of coverage of the Titan submersible tragedy. Also: complaints about an unfair focus on…
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Surgery scoop sparks rows over equality and equity
A scoop revealing that ethnicity is factored into Auckland-region surgery waiting lists sparked strong reactions against ‘race-based healthcare’ and claims that Māori and Pacific patients were…
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One weird trick for getting uncritical media coverage
Most publications would never dream of running advertising for free, or publishing a highly ideological press release verbatim, but they may do so if the same information is presented in the form of…
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Mediawatch for 25 June 2023
25 Jun 2023Surgery, equality and equity; starling survey results score easy exposure; independent local radio pioneer 1XX changes hands - but the mission remains the same.
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1XX changes hands - but not the mission
25 Jun 2023A leading local, award-winning and proudly-independent radio station based in Whakatāne has changed hands after more than 50 years on air. We ask the boss who’s been there for most of them: is it the…
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Midweek Mediawatch - 'Mad Max' mob scenes; election fever; Ellsberg RIP
21 Jun 2023Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Mark Leishman about a ‘tough on crime’ policy triggering media - after ‘Mad Max’ Mongrel Mob scenes in the news. Also: media war-gaming the election too…
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More high-level editorial change at Stuff
21 Jun 2023The country’s biggest news publisher Stuff has proposed a further restructuring of editorial and managerial jobs at the company. Some senior editors will have to re-apply for new roles - including a…
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Further fallout as RNZ takes out the ‘garbage’
18 Jun 2023External experts are poring over the ‘inappropriate editing’ of international news published online by RNZ. It has already tightened editorial checks and stood down an online journalist. Will this…
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Mediawatch for 18 June 2023
18 Jun 2023Mediawatch looks at the response to the revelation of 'inappropriate editing' of online world news at RNZ - and asks two experts what may come out of the investigation into how it happened. Also…
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Midweek Mediawatch - RNZ's Russiagate; 'rinky-dink' politics & forecast fatigue
14 Jun 2023In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Anna Thomas about RNZ's 'pro-Russia edits' saga now extending stories about other countries - and a newspaper's feature story that fell short…
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Digging out the facts on crime and punishment
11 Jun 2023Crime is set to be a big election year issue, with polls showing the public feels unsafe and the opposition claiming the government is 'soft' on offending. A pair of Herald journalists have tried to…
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RNZ investigating Kremlin-friendly story edits
9 Jun 2023RNZ is investigating how online stories about the war in Ukraine, supplied by an international news agency, were edited to align with the Russian view of events. A staff member has been stood down…
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Midweek Mediawatch - on the outside looking in
7 Jun 2023Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Tod Zaner about Auckland mayor Wayne Brown antagonising the media . . . again; a shake-up of Stuff's top brass; TVNZ boosting free-to-air sport; a dead…
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Midweek Mediawatch - a potentially toxic election season
31 May 2023In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Mark Leishman about racist abuse of journalists and the potential for more of it in a toxic election campaign. Also: an eyebrow-raising Media…
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