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Midweek Mediawatch: Mandate reporting missing context
17 Nov 2021In this week's episode of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about a glaring lack of context in vaccine mandate coverage, a doco looking into our toxic alcohol culture, and a social…
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All journalists are climate reporters now
The climate talks in Glasgow are the big global story right now - but it doesn't always feel like it in our news. A climate change reporter tells Mediawatch every journalist should now be one too -…
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The risks of reporting displays of discontent - and amplifying aggro
Tuesday’s Covid protest at Parliament was a spectacle that had to be covered, but reporters who did so were targeted by protesters - and not for the first time. Does coverage risk ramping up the…
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Experts denigrated by conspiricists - and radio hosts
A fresh analysis of Covid misinformation says it intensified after Delta arrived - and leading public figures and officials have “received specific targeting and abuse” online. But you don't have go…
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Mediawatch for 14 November 2021
14 Nov 2021The risks of reporting displays of discontent - and amplifying aggro; experts denigrated by conspiracists - and radio hosts; all journalists are climate reporters now.
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Midweek Mediawatch: An anti-vax coverage conundrum
10 Nov 2021In this week's episode of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about Discovery announcing a pair of new TV channels, media coverage of an anti-vax march on parliament, and a valuable…
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Discovery NZ makes big play for TV viewers
Broadcaster Discovery NZ is creating new TV channels, new local programmes and expanding its news output in 2022. It’s a big bid to snare more of the local TV market currently dominated by TVNZ and…
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Avoiding the mistakes of the past in trans rights coverage
7 Nov 2021During the homosexual law reform campaign 35 years ago plenty of inflammatory, derogatory and sometimes downright bigoted portrayals of gay people were published and aired in our media. Some have…
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Meta’s moves to boost our media underwhelms observers
7 Nov 2021Facebook - freshly rebadged as ‘Meta’ - gives local news media content huge extra reach, but it covers none of the cost of creating it while snaring the bulk of the digital ad revenue it…
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Alert level angst not leveling off on radio
Another Monday, another review of alert level condition for Auckland and other areas this week - along with ample evidence in the media that the change can’t come soon enough for Aucklanders who are…
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Midweek Mediawatch: COP-26, Covid-19, radio re-jigs and grandstanders
3 Nov 2021Midweek 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…
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MediaWorks signals radio news shake-up
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.
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Mental health becomes a pandemic political football
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.
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Te Rito - a new bid to boost diversity in our newsrooms
31 Oct 2021We’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…
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Keeping calm (or not) as Covid comes to Christchurch
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 . . .
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'Straya media strays from mainstream reporting NZ
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…
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The case for cutting the coverage of anti-vaxxers
28 Oct 2021Analysis: 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.
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Midweek Mediawatch: Anti-vax messages in the media
27 Oct 2021In 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…
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Media mull mental health amid lingering lockdowns
24 Oct 2021As 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…
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Wrapping up the vaxathon
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…
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Reflecting on a revolution-MMP in the rear-view mirror
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…
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A pundit backlash against actual experts
22 Oct 2021Analysis: Our epidemiologists and Covid modellers have faced an increasingly bitter series of barbs from commentators and columnists over the last month, and it's making their often thankless task…
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Midweek Mediawatch: Epidemiologists under attack
20 Oct 2021In this week's episode of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about an escalating series of media attacks on epidemiologists and layoffs at Newshub.
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Thank you very much for your kind injection
Super Saturday’s vaxathon was the biggest and longest local live TV broadcast we’ve seen for years. While some critics carped about the entertainment value, all that mattered in the end was pumping up…
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