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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 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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Mediawatch Extra 30 December 2009
The online-only companion to 'Mediawatch' which takes in queries and comments from the listeners and updates recent 'Mediawatch' stories. This month - reviewing reviews of the year; Jim Salinger's sacking; Paul Henry's sanction; a one-sided exclusive; verdicts on the Weatherston trial coverage. (duration: 36′12″)
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Mediawatch for 20 December 2009
Mediawatch looks back at the good, the bad and the ugly in the media in 2009 - and gives out a few 'awards' for some of the ugliest. (duration: 35′04″)
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Mediawatch for 13 December 2009
Commercial broadcasters cutting costs and jobs. media boss Brent Impey on why he's quitting. a prize to help scientists manage the media and bring out your dead - the art of the obituary. (duration: 38′19″)
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Mediawatch for 6 December 2009
TV3 is 20 years old, but its boss for the last 10 years is stepping aside; top-class TV shows about the world around us are made here - but not many are screened; and reviving a survivor - the future of the tabloid Truth. (duration: 35′28″)
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Mediawatch for 29 November 2009
A view on the future of NZ newspapers from a man who knows their past; reporting Rotorua's airport controversey; 'newsmercials' and naming names in the news. (duration: 35′32″)
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Mediawatch Extra for November 2009
The online-only edition of Mediawatch, which takes in questions and comments from listeners and updates Mediawatch stories from recent weeks. This month: companies covering reporters' costs; taking offence at satire; jazzing up a newspaper; tough and tacky treatment for a luckless new movie. (duration: 34′12″)
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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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