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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
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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