Mediawatch

Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talked to Emile Donovan about how the media handled the news that Joe Biden had thrown in the towel - and the final report… Read more Audio

Mediawatch looks at what our media made of the government's new emissions plan - and how best to cover global climate change without pumping up people's despair.  Read more Audio

Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights: Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about TVNZ Breakfast getting dragged into the Trump shooting debate, some NZME criticism from NZME… Read more Audio

Mediawatch looks at how our media reacted to the shocking news of the attempt on Donald Trump's life in Pennsylvania. And shortly before that news broke, Colin Peacock a look at the week's news and… Read more Audio

Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talked to Emile Donovan Stuff making a solid start with ThreeNews on TV; the British media making a meal of their landslide election and local democracy reporting's… Read more Audio

Last Friday the curtain came down on Newshub at 6 - and more than 30 years of nightly news made at the TV channel Three. But the next day the new 6pm bulletin by Stuff launched in its place… Read more Audio

Ever since TV3 launched back in 1989, the channel’s staff have brought viewers a 6pm bulletin every single day - up until today. Did Newshub at 6 go out with a bang - or a whimper? Was there… Read more

Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights.

Colin Peacock  talked to Emile Donovan about the government backing a law change - which they once slated in opposition - to help the… Read more Audio

The government has confirmed it will back legislation it had opposed in opposition which will compel tech giants to pay for local news content on their platforms. There will be amendments to the Bill… Read more

While our government ponders policy to help news media companies cope with their crumbling business models, millions of us get our news first from Facebook, Google and even TikTok. It’s the same in… Read more Audio

In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the prime minister becoming his own hype man, a strange malfunction in RNZ's push notifications, and a grab… Read more Audio

Pundits have predicted the death of old-fashioned newspapers for years - but they’re still here. This week Mediawatch looks at a new history of New Zealand newspapers from one hundred years ago up… Read more