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Clamour to cancel TVNZ's top popular cop show
28 Mar 2021A single tweet sparked bulletin-leading calls to scrap one of our most enduring and most-watched local TV shows this week. Many arguing whether the show was racist or not also admitted they don't…
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Investor-economist alliance dominates media's housing response
A squadron of investors and economists blitzed the airwaves following the government's big housing announcement, often drowning out other voices.
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Even more public money for journalism?
Last month the government announced $55m of public money will be made available for “at risk” public interest journalism over the next three years. But a recently-released cabinet paper has another…
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‘Trashy’ TV report from Australia “an error”
A news report showing restrained 501-ers being herded onto a repatriation flight while being harassed by an Aussie TV reporter raised hackles here because an Australian minister called it “taking out…
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Midweek Mediawatch - mean streets, mean tunes
24 Mar 2021Mediawatch's weekly catchup with Lately. This week Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about reports that the streets of the capital are increasingly unsafe and unpleasant- especially for women. Also -…
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Battle against online harm beefs up censor's power
The government wants to beef up the chief censor’s power to root out harmful and hateful stuff online - but opposition politicians and internet freedom advocates say this is an overreach which could…
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Opinion poll comes to end of the landline
TVNZ and its pollsters will only call you on your mobile from now on - and the first poll under the new rules delivered a telling result in response to one of its key questions.
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The big win on the water pushed everything else out of the news for a day
As the crowd went wild after the big win on the water on Wednesday, so did much of the media - triggering a total eclipse of the news.
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Midweek Mediawatch: A nationwide delirium
18 Mar 2021In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about the media's delirious coverage of Team NZ's America's Cup win, a trashy bit of Australian reporting, and Google's latest…
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Tech giant co-opts media for fight against vaccine misinformation
17 Mar 2021Google has announced it will pay Stuff to launch a project to counter vaccine misinformation. The tech giant is increasing the amount of funding it gives to news as it grapples with an Australian law…
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Claims of cancel culture and media bias get political
Against a backdrop of gripes about ‘cancel culture’ in the media, the National Party’s broadcasting spokesperson has warned bias, balance and political influence need to be addressed - and news media…
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A week of media meltdowns
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's decision to dump her weekly interview with Mike Hosking and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's interview with Oprah sparked a series of media meltdowns this week.
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Midweek Mediawatch - PM drops Mike Hosking
10 Mar 2021Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about the PM upsetting Newstalk ZB by giving a longstanding Monday slot a swerve and further fallout from NZME's…
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Broadcast bosses quizzed about bias - but not the big picture
The bosses of state-owned RNZ and TVNZ fronted up to MPs for their annual review at Parliament this week. The government’s proposal to replace both of them by 2023 is the big issue for both of them -…
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Scramble to cover tsunami and earthquake emergency
7 Mar 2021The scramble to cover the tsunami alerts and evacuations on Friday - after the much of the nation was shaken awake by a swarm of hefty quakes - was seat-of-the-pants stuff. But it threw up some…
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Covid-19 blame game and comms strategy questioned
Mediawatch looks at how the blame game played out in the media over the latest Covid cluster and the rulebreakers - while the previously-praised Covid communications strategy was called into question…
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NZME pulls racist article and bans Bassett
4 Mar 2021An article published in the Northland Age newspaper on Tuesday and on the New Zealand Herald website has been withdrawn after it was condemned as racist - and publisher NZME says it won't publish Dr…
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Midweek Mediawatch: Broadcast bosses grilled on balance and bias
4 Mar 2021In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about RNZ and TVNZ's bosses getting grilled by MPs about balance, bias and biting the hand that feeds (but not much about the…
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Mediawatch for 28 February 2021
28 Feb 2021Covid cases spark Saturday night scramble for media; MIQ martyr raises red flags10 years after - marking a major milestone in Christchurch; Facebook re-friends Australia after face-off over news…
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Covid cases spark Saturday night scramble for media
Saturday night is usually quiet time for the news media. Not under the new normal of Covid-19.
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Ten years after: Marking a major milestone in Christchurch
Commemorating the anniversary of the deadly Canterbury quake was a huge undertaking for the media this week.
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Coverage of MIQ martyr raises red flags
Lucinda Baulch became an MIQ martyr and a cause celebre for Covid sceptics when she refused a Covid test and was held for a second stint in MIQ. The media reported her reasons for refusal in detail…
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Facebook refriends Australia after face-off over news
28 Feb 2021Last week Facebook turned off Australian users’ access to news over a looming law change to make them pay to distribute it. This week news is back in their feeds after a face-off with the government…
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It's newsworthy, I swear
28 Feb 2021When Simon Bridges called the Speaker "a twat" in Parliament, media pondered whether this unparliamentary insult was fit to print - and broadcast. They all decided it was - with one surprising…
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