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Banks’ blurts bring boot from broadcaster
27 Jan 2021MediaWorks has replaced former politician John Banks as a talkback host and apologised for his comments condemning "stone age" Maori culture and warning "these people will be coming through your…
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2020 hindsight - media in the year of Covid-19
20 Dec 2020It was the worst of times for the media industry but in spite of that, many people produced the work of their lives to give us crucial news-you-could-use in a crisis - as well as sorely needed…
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Substack - the platform that boomed under Covid-19
US news media took a beating from Covid-19 in 2020. Kiwi journalist and entrepreneur Hamish McKenzie runs a publishing platform-Substack - that boomed in 2020, giving journalists important audiences…
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Midweek Mediawatch 16 December 2020
17 Dec 2020Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately.This week Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about a disputed and deleted (for now) documentary, a foreign-owned beer brand co-opting a patriotic protest for…
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Mediawatch for 13 December 2020
13 Dec 2020Mediawatch looks at how our media companies weathered the storm of Covid-19 in 2020 - and how we've ended up with more independent and locally-owned outlets than we’ve had for years. The chief…
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Please, no more stories about young people buying houses
11 Dec 2020As the housing crisis continues to spiral out of control, Hayden Donnell calls for a moratorium on stories about young first home buyers.
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Midweek Mediawatch: The case for a media moratorium
9 Dec 2020In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about the need for a ban on a certain type of housing story, a terrible prank played on TV1's Breakfast, and a Steinlager ad…
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Mediawatch for 6 December 2020
6 Dec 2020Our biggest national news publisher said sorry to Maori this week for racism in its reporting spanning three centuries. Mediawatch asks some who have confronted media racism in the past - and been…
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Midweek Mediawatch: Real regional reality TV
2 Dec 2020Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about a reality TV showing us real regional life. Also: another big name in newspapers confronting its racist past…
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Stuff reckons with the past to face the future
30 Nov 2020Down the years critics, campaigners, scholars and journalists have pointed out racial bias - and outright racism - in our media. And when the Black Lives Matter movement went global this year, some…
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Opposition potshots at the media messenger
The National Party’s AGM delivered mixed messages last weekend as the president claimed the media lined up against the party at election time - while former PM John Key said the poor performance at…
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Crux of the matter: letting the audience take control
People are used to getting news from public broadcasters paid for by taxpayers - or as a customer of commercial media organisations. But is news as a social enterprise an idea whose time has come…
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Is the moose out there?
A Canterbury black panther, mysterious moose sightings in Fiordland - and big cats reportedly roaming rurally in the South Island. All of these have been reported by serious news outlets this past…
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Midweek Mediawatch - housing hell and capital city pile-on
26 Nov 2020Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately: Hayden Donnell chats to Susana Lei'ataua about the new Metro adding momentum to the comeback of local magazines; stories of housing hell hogging headlines…
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Music journalism all-but vanishes from our media
26 Nov 2020Entertainment reporter Chris Schulz has been lamenting the decline in music journalism in New Zealand media. A new report has quantified the decline and come up with some potential solutions.
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Bringing the chilling ‘teen terrorist’ tale to light
Last weekend the same startling scoop appeared in the papers of both major publishers: a teenager arrested for plotting a school massacre which was completely suppressed for nearly two years. Both…
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Epic interview with Trump’s Kiwi
New Zealander Chris Liddell kept a low profile during his time on Trump’s team in the White House over the past four years. But last weekend TVNZ aired an hour-long chat with the man who’s now…
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Dodgy digital election ads: Does the watchdog need teeth?
The election was done and dusted weeks ago, but this week the advertising watchdog ruled another online election campaign ad was misleading. Mediawatch asks the Advertising Standards Authority: is the…
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Critics climb in on defeated All Blacks - and Keith Quinn
While the All Blacks' defeat to the underdone underdogs from Argentina last weekend was unexpected the emotional media response was pretty predictable. The critics went in boots’n’all on the men in…
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Midweek Mediawatch 18 November 2020
18 Nov 2020Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Lately. This week: an old-school broadcaster cops a new media backlash as critics went in boots ‘n’ all against the men in Black (with pink boots). Also: North and…
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News publisher reveals new three-year plan
Media company NZME has unveiled a new three-year strategy which could spell the end for some of the country’s most historic newspaper names.
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Slim pickings - reporting the shortage of labour for fruit and veges
With borders closed, a severe shortage of people to pick fruit and vegetables could create serious shortages and high prices this summer. Politicians, growers and media personalities have all…
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Reporting the fact-free claims of Team Trump
15 Nov 2020Since losing the US election, president Donald Trump and his allies have mounted an evidence-free campaign to portray the vote as rigged. That's thrown the dysfunctions of the country's media…
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National’s sober new deputy
National Party leader Judith Collins revealed her front bench picks from its shrunken caucus this week. She elevated Dr Shane Reti to be her deputy - and his drinking habits were leading the bulletins…
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