Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
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NZ Radio Awards 2009
20 March, 2010
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Mediawatch
with Colin Peacock & Jeremy Rose
Sundays at 9am and 10pm.
You can now listen or download programmes back to January 2007 in the programme archive.
Transcripts of past programmes are available for 2001 through to 2004.
Most Recent Programmes
- Mediawatch for 14 March 2010
- A courageous Kiwi soldier in Afghanistan is hailed as a hero, but how did he end up in the headlines? An Australian initiative offers journalists here a platform to probe their own industry; more private lives being made public in the press. (duration: 33′56″)
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- Mediawatch for 7 March 2010
- Sounding the tsunami alert last weekend, RWC TV deal finally done, telling the tale of the Princess Ahsika from Tonga and with politicians' spending under scrutiny, do journalists get a free lunch. (duration: 35′25″)
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- Mediawatch Extra 1 March 2010
- The online-only companion to Mediawatch, taking in listeners' queries and comments and following up on recent stories in the programme. This month: the rights and wrongs of fatal footage in the news; more revision of the 'Unfortunate Experiment'; broadcasters using the news to plug their own programmes; and should New Zealanders go abroad for the big stories - or just use the locals? (duration: 39′17″)
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- Mediawatch for 28 February 2010
- Does Radio New Zealand need to be "saved" from the government as campaigners are claiming?; the challenge to a made-up climate change quote; journalists' gripes go global online. (duration: 35′26″)
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- Mediawatch for 21 February 2010
- Dwelling on a death in the TV news, whats the government expects from the governors of RNZ, a presnter pursuing a personal agenda on the air. (duration: 35′24″)
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- Mediawatch for 14 February 2010
- Sunday papers turning tabloid, the media condemn a court ruling shielding a local man from shame and how the PM got bumped by a shamed sportsman while Alan Bollard got gazumped by a pie. (duration: 35′45″)
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- Mediawatch for 7 February 2010
- The iPad, TV in HD and even 3D: hi-tech advances to enhance the future of the modern media? Or will they make the job even harder and confuse consumers, while making a buck for the makers? And - how the loose use of email can end up in the news. (duration: 36′40″)
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- Mediawatch for 31 January 2010
- TV3's Mike McRoberts and Dr Martin Hirst on the journalists getting involved in the catastrophe that's hit Haiti; stumbling upon suppression orders. (duration: 34′37″)
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The Team
Produced and Presented by Colin Peacock
and Jeremy Rose
email: mediawatch@radionz.co.nz
About Mediawatch
Mediawatch looks critically at the New Zealand media - television, radio, newspapers and magazines as well as the 'new' electronic media.
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