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Mediawatch for 5 May 2024
5 May 2024One opinion poll prompts intense political pushback; new report urges sweeping changes to media, law and funding - and fast; Wairoa Star closes after more than a century in print.
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Midweek Mediawatch - polls, papers and a post-match snafu
1 May 2024Midweek Mediawatch: Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about an MP taken to task about his knowledge of the arts - and a TV producer taking on a funding agency in court. Also: a new political poll…
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Competitive current affairs across the Tasman
28 Apr 2024While 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…
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Mediawatch for 28 April 2024
28 Apr 2024New media minister rolls in after PM's surprise reshuffle; TV news and current affairs on the way down here, but highly competitive across the Tasman.
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Midweek Mediawatch - Another broadcasting minister down
24 Apr 2024In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the departure of broadcasting minister Melissa Lee - and the arrival of the next one Paul Goldsmith. Also: a…
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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…
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The tough questions behind the media's declining trust
21 Apr 2024As another report shows another decline in New Zealanders' trust in the news, two editors sat down with Mediawatch to discuss the findings and what could be done to turn things around.
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Stuff / Newshub deal: a lifeline or the last chance?
This week’s deal to outsource Newshub’s 6pm TV news to Stuff is a bold move for an company that’s never been a broadcaster. Both parties say it’s the way of the digital future, but it will provide a…
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Mediawatch for 21 April 2024
21 Apr 2024Stuff is taking over Newshub's 6pm TV news. A bold move for an outfit that's never been a broadcaster before. Will it work? Also: Mediawatch talks to two editors about the latest survey showing…
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Midweek Mediawatch - Stuff's bold TV play
17 Apr 2024Midweek Mediawatch - Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about Stuff leaping into uncharted waters by taking on Newshub at 6. Also: TVNZ going 'beyond broadcasting,' NZ Post and…
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Stuff to provide news bulletins to replace Newshub
Warner Bros. Discovery has done a deal with Stuff to provide news to replace Newshub. It will keep news on TV channel Three from July 6 and help Three retain some viewers. It also means important…
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End of the news as we know it?
This week our two biggest TV broadcasters confirmed plans to cut news programmes by midyear - and the jobs of a significant proportion of this country’s journalists. Many observers said this had been…
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Mediawatch for 14 April 2024
14 Apr 2024End of TV news as we know it? TVNZ cuts back and Newshub closes down. Newshub's news boss responds; the minister plays for time; a former minister fights back
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Midweek Mediawatch - little light at the end of the TV news tunnel
10 Apr 2024Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about an historic day - not in a good way. The confirmation of the closure of Newshub and more cuts confirmed at TVNZ means more than 300…
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Newshub shutdown confirmed, jobs cut
10 Apr 2024Warner Bros. Discovery has confirmed its plans to shut down Newshub, including its website and all TV news shows by July 5. 294 staff will lose their jobs. The company says no deal is in place yet…
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Watchdog says ZB comments 'misleading and discriminatory'
Breaches of the broadcasting standard for discrimination and denigration are rare in news media - but hosts on just one network have now done it three times in the past four years.
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Fair Go and daily news bulletins to close at TVNZ
TVNZ has confirmed Fair Go - on air for 47 years - and news shows Midday and Tonight will cease next month. The future of Sunday will be confirmed tomorrow. Meanwhile a decision on alternatives to a…
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People's trust in news has tumbled over the past year, survey shows
8 Apr 2024The latest annual survey of New Zealanders’ trust in news media has recorded another sharp drop. It also finds more people avoid the news- but more people say they’re still interested in it and…
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Mediawatch for 7 April 2024
7 Apr 2024We talk to an editor keeping an eye on where public money for public services ends up and the government’s new political action plan gets the media’s attention.
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Midweek Mediawatch - chunking out some decision gates
3 Apr 2024In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the government's new chunked-out action plan, a new channel coming to the ThreeNow app - and why media companies chasing…
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Cranky claims drown out facts in SailGP dolphin drama
31 Mar 2024There were howls of outrage when SailGP cancelled racing on Saturday after a Hector's dolphin was spotted on the course. But some of the critics were missing important context which one journalist has…
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Flow of info blown off course by Gabrielle
A review of the Cyclone Gabrielle response found the emergency management response was not fit for purpose - and not good for media providing critical 'real time' coverage of the disaster. But one…
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Mediawatch for 31 March 2024
31 Mar 2024Gabrielle review lessons for media; Dolphin drama fires up media.
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Midweek Mediawatch - Kate, Coutts, murder in Moscow
27 Mar 2024Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about the dolphin drama that divided the nation (and the media) last weekend - and royal revelations that overshadowed a terrorist atrocity in…
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