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About Mediawatch

Mediawatch looks critically at the New Zealand media - television, radio, newspapers and magazines as well as the 'new' electronic media. It also examines the performance of the agencies, corporations and institutions that regulate them. It looks into the impact the media has on the nation, highlighting good practice as well as bad along the way - and it also enquires into overseas trends and technological developments which New Zealanders need to know about.

It aims to enlighten everyone with an interest in the media about how it all works, how quickly things are changing - and how certain significant stories and issues are being covered. It's also intended to be essential listening for those who work in the industry itself - as well as those who simply enjoy well-produced and lively radio.

Colin Peacock, Presenter-Producer

After his postgraduate diploma in journalism from Canterbury University, he went to London and joined BBC World TV. He moved to the BBC's 24-hour news network '5 Live' just in time for Princess Diana's fatal accident on his first night shift in the studio. He produced 5 Live's international programme 'Global' in 1999, then moved to BBC World Service the following year to work on news programmes such as 'Newshour' and 'World Update', a co-production with Public Radio International in the US. He returned to New Zealand in November 2002.

Cushla Managh - Producer-Presenter

Cushla has been a journalist since 1983, covering industrial relations and politics for newspapers in Taranaki, Wellington and Auckland. She was a journalist in the parliamentary press gallery at the height of Rogernomics, and in 1990 she joined the Radio New Zealand newsroom. Since then she has worked as a reporter, newsreader, subeditor and presenter, and has taught aspects of journalism to new reporters. In August 2006 she joined Mediawatch, giving her a legitimate reason to spend her days reading newspapers, listening to the radio and watching television. Cushla has a degree in psychology and continues to combine work and study.

Contact

We welcome feedback by email to mediawatch@radionz.co.nz or by mail to PO Box 123, Wellington.