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Midweek Mediawatch - Covering another catastrophe
15 Feb 2023Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights. Hayden Donnell talks to Susana Lei'ataua about some good journalism - and some ill-advised commentary - on Cyclone Gabrielle. And in…
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Supermarkets shaping the food price story
12 Feb 2023Recent media reports have blamed rising grocery prices on supermarket suppliers and even shoplifters. One business journalist is calling on the media to focus on the market power of our supermarket…
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Mediawatch for 12 February 2023
12 Feb 2023Media merger out of its misery; supermarkets shaping the food price story; Southlander goes solo to tell southern stories.
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Southlander goes solo to tell southern stories
Logan Savory spent years covering local stories for the long-established local daily paper Southland Times. Now he’s gone solo in the Southland Tribune - which sounds like a paper but isn’t. Why the…
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Midweek Mediawatch - the day the merger died
8 Feb 2023Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about the government dumping its public media plans - again - and Karyn talks to National's Melissa Lee…
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Public media policy put out of its misery
The PM has confirmed what pundits have predicted for weeks: the plan for a public media entity has been scrapped – before they even settled on a name for it. It’s the second time in five years…
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Rebooting crisis coverage in the social media age
5 Feb 2023When the heavens opened last weekend, some channels of official information closed. Emergency management agencies and the news media both copped criticism for lagging behind events - and behind social…
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Communications recriminations after the deluge
The communications failures following the downpour - now under review - weren’t all Wayne Brown’s fault, but the mayor’s antagonistic and arm's-length management prolonged a media pile-on which…
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Mediawatch for 5 February 2023
5 Feb 2023Communications recriminations after the deluge; rebooting crisis coverage in the social media age; public media plan proclaimed a dead duck by other media.
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Midweek Drongowatch: A woeful week in Wayne's world
1 Feb 2023In this week's rebranded Midweek Drongowatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about a flood of criticism for Auckland mayor Wayne Brown, a pair of polls that perked up the political press pack -…
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Political pressure on media merger pumped up
Legislation for a new public media entity due by March has been reviewed and is due to be debated in Parliament soon. But pundits and opposition politicians alike are urging the government - now under…
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Mediawatch for 29 January 2023
29 Jan 2023PM's exit and epic rain blow up 'slow news' summer; political pressure pumped up on media merger; mixed messages on state of the highways.
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Mixed messages on state of the highways
29 Jan 2023Anger over the state of our highways deepened this summer - along with the potholes at the heart of constant claims the roads are “the worst they’ve ever been.” But political pressure and a startling…
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PM’s exit and epic rain blow up 'slow news' summer
Along with the politicians, the media were caught on the hop when Jacinda Ardern suddenly called it quits last week. This week, more than a summer's worth of rain in a few hours blew away the 'slow…
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Midweek Mediawatch - suprise demise of a PM
25 Jan 2023Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights - back for 2023.
Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about the media response to Jacinda Ardern’s surprise demise. Also: big job cuts…
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Midweek Mediawatch: The year in review
22 Dec 2022In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell recaps the big stories of 2022 and the questions they raise for 2023, and delivers his own personal worst of and best of list for the year…
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Turning a more sceptical eye on the tech titans
18 Dec 2022For years, Silicon Valley's stars have been able to drum up positive media headlines with their visions of a future tech utopia. In 2022, several of them ran into the hard wall of reality.
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Mediawatch for 18 December 2022
18 Dec 2022Mediawatch's mash-up of 2022 in review; reversal of fortunes for Silicon Valley moguls in the media.
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Mediawatch's mashup of 2022 in review
18 Dec 2022Mediawatch says goodbye - and good riddance - to 2022 in the media.
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Midweek Mediawatch - more media merger manoeuvres
14 Dec 2022Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about the government’s media merger under the spotlight again - along with top brass of TVNZ and RNZ. Also: the death of two much-admired…
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Media merger meets mounting resistance as clock ticks
The PM’s hints this week reforms will be pared back in 2023 - and an untidy interview by the broadcasting minister - added to skepticism about the government’s public media plan. But while the media…
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Newspaper deserts - and some green shoots - replace rivers of gold
American newspaper editor turned academic Kenton Bird traveled this country in 2010 to see if the ‘news deserts’ caused by newspaper closures in the US could happen here. 12 years on, he’s back - and…
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Stuff’s regional rejig - and staff strife
11 Dec 2022Why has our biggest and only truly national news publisher Stuff just rejigged its regional reporting to have fewer reporters in its local newsrooms - and none at all in some at certain times of the…
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Midweek Mediawatch: A good news story gone bad
7 Dec 2022In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about a media tussle with Pharmac, a so-called 'trainweck' interview by the broadcasting minister and two interesting…
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