Mediawatch

For 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. Read more Audio

Mediawatch's mash-up of 2022 in review; reversal of fortunes for Silicon Valley moguls in the media. Read more Audio

Mediawatch says goodbye  - and good riddance - to 2022 in the media.  Read more Audio

Midweek 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… Read more Audio

Why 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… Read more Audio

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… Read more Audio

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… Read more Audio

In 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… Read more Audio

One press conference question at a Prime Ministerial summit kicked off a wave of social media scorn this week - and even criticism and international headlines about sexism. But media made a better… Read more Audio

For more than 30 years the nation's independent producers have been able to bid for money from the public purse to make programmes via New Zealand on Air. But from next year, the new public media… Read more Audio

Handling awkward questions; programme-makers anxious about public media project; why Stuff journalists walked off the job. Read more Audio