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Our World Cup runneth over - and out. What next?
9:10 AM.The Women's World Cup 2023 attracted record crowds in the stands and on TV - both here and in Australia. It also delivered drama and off-pitch stories that livened up standard sports coverage. But… Read more Video, Audio
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Mediawatch for 20 August 2023
9:08 AM.Our World Cup runneth over - what legacy will it leave? Lifting the lid on exploitation of migrant workers and human trafficking. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - football and fruit & veg frenzies
10:00 PM.Midweek Mediawatch: Colin Peacock talked to Mark Leishman while Australia’s Matildas were playing England’s Lionesses in Sydney and breaking TV viewing records. Also: election fever building in the… Read more Audio
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Report finds history repeating in coverage of calls for crime crackdown
4:00 PM.Political calls to crack down on crime are echoing in our media ahead of the upcoming election - not for the first time. Two seasoned journalists showed this was part of a pattern in a report on crime… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 13 August 2023
9:08 AM.Reporters' report on crime coverage urges new thinking - and highlights electoral 'crime crackdown' pattern; RNZ's Richard Sutherland calling it quits after 30 years; free sports streaming options on… Read more Audio
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Calling it quits after 30 years
9:07 AM.RNZ’s head of news Richard Sutherland’s called it a day after more than 30 years in the news. He’s worked at almost every major news broadcaster in the country and led the outfit representing their… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - climate, cellphones and how not to spell cat
7:07 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Mark Leishman about one news broadcast foregrounding climate while another hones in on cellphones and Chris Luxon misspelling… Read more Audio
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Political road rage - budget holes and emissions omissions
4:00 PM.The UN says we've reached "the era of global boiling". Given that, you'd think climate might have got more of a mention from the media as the National Party released its road-heavy $24 billion… Read more Audio
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Putting right what went wrong with RNZ's online news
9:10 AM.A review of RNZ's online news has called for greater oversight and enforcement of standards after a crisis sparked by a single staffer making 'inappropriate' edits to international news online… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 6 August 2023
9:08 AM.Political road rage - budget holes & emissions omissions; what went wrong with RNZ's online news - and putting it right, Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - RNZ review, Cup crackers, Palmy peeved
7:20 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Colin Peacock talks to Mark Leishman about what a review of the ‘inappropriate editing’ of online news at RNZ has revealed. Also - the FIFA Women’s World Cup… Read more Audio
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Review of RNZ's ‘inappropriate editing’ calls for change
4:21 PM.An independent review of editorial processes at RNZ has called for greater oversight and enforcement of standards after a single staffer made 'inappropriate' edits to international news stories… Read more
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Allan’s resignation sparks another at RNZ
5:09 PM.A board member at RNZ appointed less than a month ago quit this week after making public comments on Kiri Allan’s downfall and criticising media coverage of it. RNZ had asked Jason Ake to stop and the… Read more Audio
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Minister’s downfall triggers premature election speculation
9:10 AM.The media could scarcely ignore the startling story of a minister of justice under arrest, but the circumstances of that and her sudden resignation raised many other issues. Many in the media seized… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 30 July 2023
9:08 AM.Minister's downfall triggers election speculation - and another resignation at RNZ. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - a media storm over a mental health crisis
8:30 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights. This week Hayden Donnell talks to Mark Leishman about the coverage of Kiri Allan's arrest and subsequent resignation - and media pushing… Read more Audio
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A triumph - after a day of tragedy
6:00 PM.On a day when Auckland was the focus of the biggest story in world sport and the Football Ferns ended up making history, deadly shootings a stone's throw from football teams' hotels and the fan zone… Read more Audio
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Poll analysis unhitches itself from reality
2:00 PM.Nothing much changed in a 1News Verian poll released on Monday. Some commentators treated the boring results as a blank canvas on which to express their creativity. Read more Audio
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Political parties roll out crime control policy
9:09 AM.After it emerged that Matu Reid was on home detention for family violence offences, the media rapidly raised questions about home detention, the discounting of prison sentences and gun control… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 23 July 2023
9:08 AM.A triumph on a tragic day; political parties roll out crime control policies; creative interpretations of a pretty prosaic political poll. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - too much information too soon?
10:00 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Mark Leishman about intense coverage of a mother accused of killing her children - and the media finally covering the crimes of Sir James Wallace… Read more Audio
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Could a 'mortgage bomb' blow up borrowers?
12:00 PM.Recent reports have warned of a ‘mortgage bomb’ that could blow up - and a growing number of people unable to pay back debts. Is the story as explosive as some headlines would have you believe?
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Australia puts big tech under more pressure
These days the platforms that pump news round the internet make more money out of it than the media who make it. In Australia they’ve done deals to ensure the media get more. Now the government also… Read more Video, Audio
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Mediawatch for 16 July 2023
9:08 AM.Warnings of a 'mortgage bomb' about to blow up; Australia puts big tech' under more pressure; Mary Holm's 25 years with readers and writers. Read more Audio
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Mary Holm - 25 years with readers and writers
9:06 AM.Mary Holm's been writing about personal finance weekly for the same paper for more than 25 years. But she tells Mediawatch it's really the readers who have kept it going. Read more Audio