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Midweek Mediawatch - Greens gazumped; Cane caned
9:58 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Mark Leishman about the Greens' entire manifesto crowded out by coverage of a single law and order tweak from Act . Also a Mediawatch… Read more Audio
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The death and rebirth of a long-lasting column
2:10 PM.The New Zealand Herald column Sideswipe ended in May after a 21-year run. Its creator attributes its longevity to good curation and building a community. Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 9 July 2023
9:08 AM.100 days to go; unknown Luxon; Listener goes online and brings back NZ's longest lasting columnist; confusing news on the economy. Audio
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Christopher Luxon, the unknowable man
9:07 AM.Political reporters often say people need to get to know National leader Christopher Luxon. But he's ubiquitous in the media and has been in the job 18 months. Is it possible he's unknowable? Or is it… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - tipsy Tory & allegedly angry Allan
10:30 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Mark Leishman about the reaction to two politicians who both filled the front page of The Post this past week: cabinet minister Kiri Allan and Wellington… Read more Audio
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Shock of the news - and the state of the arts
9:10 AM.A new report says the arts and culture get just half of the space in our media that's devoted to sport. Mediawatch asks a leading local culture critic if the arts are just a 'nice to have' for our… Read more Audio
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The right to be wrong - even in a crisis
9:08 AM.Dolphins mating in a prime-time TV documentary was deemed a breach of broadcasting standards this week by the broadcasting watchdog - but dismissing official information and experts on air during… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 2 July 2023
9:08 AM.The shock of the news - and a critical shortage in the state of the arts; TVNZ top-table changes; reserving the right to be wrong - even in an emergency. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - a Titanic amount of coverage
8:49 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Mark Leishman about a titanic amount of coverage of the Titan submersible tragedy. Also: complaints about an unfair focus on… Read more Audio
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One weird trick for getting uncritical media coverage
6:09 PM.Most publications would never dream of running advertising for free, or publishing a highly ideological press release verbatim, but they may do so if the same information is presented in the form of… Read more Audio
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Surgery scoop sparks rows over equality and equity
A scoop revealing that ethnicity is factored into Auckland-region surgery waiting lists sparked strong reactions against ‘race-based healthcare’ and claims that Māori and Pacific patients were… Read more Video, Audio
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1XX changes hands - but not the mission
9:08 AM.A leading local, award-winning and proudly-independent radio station based in Whakatāne has changed hands after more than 50 years on air. We ask the boss who’s been there for most of them: is it the… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 25 June 2023
9:08 AM.Surgery, equality and equity; starling survey results score easy exposure; independent local radio pioneer 1XX changes hands - but the mission remains the same. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - 'Mad Max' mob scenes; election fever; Ellsberg RIP
10:15 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Mark Leishman about a ‘tough on crime’ policy triggering media - after ‘Mad Max’ Mongrel Mob scenes in the news. Also: media war-gaming the election too… Read more Audio
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More high-level editorial change at Stuff
11:42 AM.The country’s biggest news publisher Stuff has proposed a further restructuring of editorial and managerial jobs at the company. Some senior editors will have to re-apply for new roles - including a… Read more
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Further fallout as RNZ takes out the ‘garbage’
9:10 AM.External experts are poring over the ‘inappropriate editing’ of international news published online by RNZ. It has already tightened editorial checks and stood down an online journalist. Will this… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 18 June 2023
9:08 AM.Mediawatch looks at the response to the revelation of 'inappropriate editing' of online world news at RNZ - and asks two experts what may come out of the investigation into how it happened. Also… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - RNZ's Russiagate; 'rinky-dink' politics & forecast fatigue
10:05 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Anna Thomas about RNZ's 'pro-Russia edits' saga now extending stories about other countries - and a newspaper's feature story that fell short… Read more Audio
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Digging out the facts on crime and punishment
9:09 AM.Crime is set to be a big election year issue, with polls showing the public feels unsafe and the opposition claiming the government is 'soft' on offending. A pair of Herald journalists have tried to… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 11 June 2023
9:08 AM.How stories about the war in Ukraine ended up with a pro-Russian slant on RNZ's website; reports of crime are on the up but does the story change when reporters run the numbers before running a story?
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RNZ investigating Kremlin-friendly story edits
7:55 PM.RNZ is investigating how online stories about the war in Ukraine, supplied by an international news agency, were edited to align with the Russian view of events. A staff member has been stood down… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - on the outside looking in
10:00 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Tod Zaner about Auckland mayor Wayne Brown antagonising the media . . . again; a shake-up of Stuff's top brass; TVNZ boosting free-to-air sport; a dead… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 4 June 2023
9:08 AM.Mediawatch talks to the radio industry's top spokesperson who called on commercial companies to curb their rivalry - and the brains behind a small music radio network spreading around the country -… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - a potentially toxic election season
7:59 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Mark Leishman about racist abuse of journalists and the potential for more of it in a toxic election campaign. Also: an eyebrow-raising Media… Read more Audio
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The long game of investigating Loafers Lodge disaster
9:12 AM.Years before the Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 residents, it was foreshadowed by another fatal fire in London which wasn't adequately investigated. A journalist who has worked on that story for six… Read more Audio