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 25 July 2010
- Rugby writer's rant sparks debate on rip-off rates; an outsider's view of our papers; a TV veteran set to depart; who's creating political news? (duration: 34′59″)
- Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3
- Mediawatch for 18 July 2010
- South Africa defies press pessimism; outrageous self-promotion in the news; apples for no apparent reason; the fear of creating copycats; a big paper now out of print. (duration: 37′00″)
- Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3
- Mediawatch for 11 July 2010
- TVNZ's latest news shake-up; how the media handle suicide; the author who turned the drudgery of a newsroom into a best-seller; the price of sports punditry. (duration: 40′28″)
- Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3
- Mediawatch for 4 July 2010
- The role of the media in rolling Australia's PM and how Rolling Stone killed the career of a top military man, the state of business journalism as a much-admired weekly paper shuts up shop and a longtime business journalist gets out of the game for good. (duration: 35′41″)
- Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3
- Mediawatch Extra for June 2010
- The online-only edition of Mediawatch, which tackles queries and comments from listeners and updates stories from recent editions of the radio programme. This month - World Cup fever in the media; the press pack hunting Chris Carter; a crowdsourcing experiment, programmes marking 50 years of TV miss the mark. (duration: 34′41″)
- Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3
- Mediawatch for 27 June 2010
- All Whites draw but PM wins; Greens' main man slammed for pro-Tibet stand; two more views on the future of television; claims a radio presenter's been silenced by politics. (duration: 35′25″)
- Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3
- Mediawatch for 20 June 2010
- Hounding an under-fire MP; recruiting readers for newsgathering; Freeview and the digital switchover; the All Whites irritate cranky commentators. (duration: 35′18″)
- Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3
- Mediawatch for 13 June 2010
- Media frenzy over ministers' spending; a TV show hoaxing the news media; more views on TV's 50th anniversary; the end of the Independent. (duration: 35′20″)
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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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