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Midweek Mediawatch - big bills for media billionaires
10:45 PM.Midweek Mediawatch: Colin Peacock talks to Mark Leishman about a very bad week for two billionaire media barons - Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch - burning up credibility and cash in court, online and in… Read more Audio
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What’s the government’s post-merger media plan?
9:10 AM.The government is beefing up RNZ’s budget after scrapping the new public media entity it planned over four years. But what’s the ‘broadcasting strategy for all New Zealanders’ the minister says he’s… Read more Audio
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New regional news network seeks reporters and backers
9:08 AM.This week ads for a new start-up appeared seeking reporters in the regions - and offering salaries reporters only get in the big cities these days. What is Regional News Network? How does it plan to… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 23 April 2023
9:08 AM.What's the government plan for public media now?; regional news start-up seeking reporters and backing; airline snack swap secures sparks media appetite. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - an unwanted Twitter tag
8:07 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights. Hayden Donnell talks to Mark Leishman about Twitter tagging public broadcasters around the world - including RNZ - as 'government… Read more Audio
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A rainy day for the mayor's media freeze out
9:13 AM.Auckland mayor Wayne Brown has maintained a relationship with the media that's been - at best - frosty. A new report into the Council's flood response shows the limits of that approach. The mayor's… Read more Audio
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Droning on about flying pizza - again
9:10 AM.This week the prospect of pizza by drone from store-to-door hit the headlines again - seven years years after a similar PR fly-by prompted stories insisting this was just around the corner for needy… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 16 April 2023
9:08 AM.Auckland flood response review finds arms-length Council didn't use media effectively; media droning on about flying pizza - again; a fake news backflip. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - Lobbying, OIA angst and spoiler rage
10:00 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talks to Mark Leishman about how the media reacted to a sudden switch of rules for those who lobby politicians. Also - an… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch: Turning off the news?
11:30 AM.Mediawatch looks at the results of the biggest annual survey of New Zealanders’ trust in news - which shows it’s on the slide for the fourth year in a row. For the first time it also shows many of us… Read more Video, Audio
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Big budget boost for RNZ after failed public media plan
12:08 PM.The government has boosted the annual budget of RNZ by more than 50 percent for the next four years after the recent collapse of the plan for a new public media entity. The broadcasting minister also… Read more
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Midweek Mediawatch - All the President's luggage
9:43 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Mark Leishman about Donald Trump getting arrested, trust in news falling again, a controversy involving a Cabinet minister and… Read more Audio
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Power outage - TVNZ’s top boss quits after a year
5:57 PM.TVNZ’s chief executive Simon Power has resigned and will leave in June after just 15 months in the role - during which a new public media entity to replace TVNZ was scrapped. He’s the second media… Read more
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Today FM turned off - and erased
6:10 PM.Why did MediaWorks kill a network launched with heavy hype only a year ago - which was also the source of news for half the country's commercial stations? The major media company also scrubbed the… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 2 April 2023
9:08 AM.The untidy end of Today FM - and 30 years of talk radio history; further fallout from coverage of the short-but-sharp visit of provocateur Posie Parker - and the protest that drowned her out. Read more Audio
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Media mismatch on an 'out-of-control mob'
9:07 AM.The protest that overwhelmed a rally for anti-trans rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull in Auckland last weekend was described as out-of-control and violent in some accounts. Two reporters who… Read more Audio
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Today FM goes up in flames after on-air explosion
9:51 AM.The future of MediaWorks talk network Today FM and its news service are in doubt after a proposal to close the station prompted an on-air staff revolt. Today FM abruptly cut to pop music after… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - incorrect Corrections ad?
10:00 PM.Midweek Mediawatch: Colin Peacock talks to Susana Lei’ataua about the advertising watchdog scuppering an expensive and important TV advert - and a surprise rise in the media’s income from… Read more Audio
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Lifting the lid on lobbying, ministers - and the media
1:10 PM.An RNZ investigation lifted the lid this week on lobbyists and how they communicate with politicians outside the public gaze or official oversight. But it also raised questions for the media about how… Read more Audio
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Posie the provocateur captures media's attention
9:12 AM.The fly-in fly-out visit of provocateur Posie Parker was obviously a divisive issue - with people going to court to try to prevent it and then taking to the streets when that failed. Opponents drowned… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 26 March 2023
9:08 AM.UK provocateur captures media's attention; lifting the lid on lobbying, ministers - and the media; a source burned and spurned - in the public interest? Read more Audio
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A source burned and spurned - in the public interest?
9:07 AM.An RNZ investigation this week revealed ministers and their staff are messaged by lobbyists using apps out of the public gaze - but discoverable under the OIA. In the UK, one minister’s messages… Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - Lobbyists, Iraq, provoking the woke & angst over activist
10:06 PM.In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Susana Lei'ataua about revelations on political lobbying from RNZ, a new online outlet seeking to provoke the woke; how US media boosted the… Read more Audio
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Another top-tier departure rocks MediaWorks
6:02 PM.MediaWorks’ news boss Dallas Gurney has resigned, soon after the sudden departure of the chief executive who appointed him. It leaves a leadership void at the broadcaster at a tricky time and it casts… Read more
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A muted media response to March 15
6:10 PM.The media did little to mark the fourth anniversary of the March 15 terror attack, and some victims and their families say they are starting to feel forgotten. Read more Audio