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Mediawatch

There's never a shortage of opinions on the media - but Mediawatch looks at it all in detail twice a week, accompanied by to-the-point interviews and analysis. Mediawatch is a must-listen each week for those keen to know more about the news - and each edition must also stand up to the scrutiny of those who work in our media.

Sundays at 9:05am and 10:12pm

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  • Midweek Mediawatch: COP-26, Covid-19, radio re-jigs and grandstanders

    media
    3 Nov 2021

    Midweek Mediawatch - our weekly catch-up with Karyn Hay on Lately.  This week Colin Peacock talks to Karyn about a shake-up in news radio that made headlines - while another went under the radar… Read more Audio

  • MediaWorks signals radio news shake-up

    media politics
    2 Nov 2021

    Radio broadcaster MediaWorks will launch a new talk radio network in early 2022 and has hired Newshub political editor Tova O’Brien for a new show which will shake up the morning news scene.  Read more

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  • Mental health becomes a pandemic political football

    media health
    31 Oct 2021

    There's been plenty of media coverage on the mental health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Mental Health Foundation Shaun Robinson says a lot of it has been too simplistic, or just plain wrong. Read more

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  • Keeping calm (or not) as Covid comes to Christchurch

    media health
    31 Oct 2021

    Did our media keep calm and carry on when Covid came to Christchurch this week? Or amplify anger and confusion about loose borders and unvaccinated travellers? Bit of both . . . Read more Audio

  • Te Rito - a new bid to boost diversity in our newsrooms

    media te ao Maori
    31 Oct 2021

    We’ve had too few journalists of Māori, Pasifika and Asian origin in our newsrooms for decades - and now there’s a new publicly-funded push to turn that round. Four established outlets are backing the… Read more Video, Audio

  • Mediawatch for 31 October 2021

    media
    31 Oct 2021

    Keeping calm as Covid comes to Christchurch - and not; a new bid to boost diversity in our news; Australian media straying into fake news about NZ. Audio

  • 'Straya media strays from mainstream reporting NZ

    media health
    31 Oct 2021

    One Australian news outlet seized on a Kiwi commentator's claim this week that our media is 'fully controlled' by the PM - while a big name broadcaster here seized on fake news from another Aussie… Read more Audio

  • The case for cutting the coverage of anti-vaxxers

    media
    28 Oct 2021

    Analysis: Anti-vaxxers have been in the news a lot recently, and all the coverage is putting the media in danger of becoming a vector for misleading or false messages. Read more Audio

    Coming up

  • Midweek Mediawatch: Anti-vax messages in the media

    media
    27 Oct 2021

    In this week's episode of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about anti-vax messages finding a media platform, some outstanding local investigative reporting this week - and… Read more Audio

  • Media mull mental health amid lingering lockdowns

    media
    24 Oct 2021

    As the Covid crisis deepens and lockdown levels give way to traffic lights, the mental health effects of it all are being aired more than ever in the media - sometimes along with assumptions that… Read more Audio

  • Wrapping up the vaxathon

    media health
    24 Oct 2021

    Last weekend’s hastily-organised eight-hour Vaxathon TV extravaganza silenced most critics after a record number of jabs last weekend - but not all.  We ask the brains behind the broadcast - Bailey… Read more Audio

  • Reflecting on a revolution-MMP in the rear-view mirror

    media politics
    24 Oct 2021

    The media marked a quarter of a century of MMP with a lot of mixed reviews on how it has changed our politics - and our country. Mediawatch talks to a documentary-maker who created one of the most… Read more Audio

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Mediawatch

Sundays at 9:05am and 10:12pm

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On air since 2001 and as a podcast since 2007, Mediawatch looks critically at big stories and issues in the news right now - and what’s going on behind the scenes across the media.

Mediawatch examines the output of reporters, producers and editors - as well as the input of PR and the ad industry. It also questions the executives, policy-makers, politicians, regulators and tech companies which influence our media today.

Colin Peacock, Producer and presenter of Mediawatch

Colin studied journalism at the University of Canterbury then headed overseas to freelance back in the 1990s before pitching up at BBC News for eight years. He worked for BBC World TV and news and sport network 5 Live before ending up as a producer at the World Service. After a stint at World Update, a co-production with Public Radio International in the US, he returned to New Zealand and came to RNZ in 2003. He’s been producing and presenting Mediawatch since 2007.

Hayden Donnell, Mediawatch producer

Hayden Donnell has been a writer, reporter and editor for news outlets including the New Zealand Herald, TVNZ, RNZ and Newshub. In recent years he’s also worked for The Spinoff, where his story on the making of Kim Dotcom’s much-maligned album Good Times won a Voyager award for best entertainment feature. He also presented the web series Get It To Te Papa, which follows his quest to get underappreciated artefacts into our national museum. He joined the Mediawatch team at the beginning of 2020.

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Presenter: Colin Peacock