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Mediawatch for 30 June 2024 - the great distribution dilemma
30 Jun 2024While our government ponders policy to help news media companies cope with their crumbling business models, millions of us get our news first from Facebook, Google and even TikTok. It’s the same in…
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Midweek Mediawatch - a PM forced to dish his own plaudits
In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the prime minister becoming his own hype man, a strange malfunction in RNZ's push notifications, and a grab…
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23 Jun 2024Pundits have predicted the death of old-fashioned newspapers for years - but they're still here.
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Pressing On - papers past and future
Pundits have predicted the death of old-fashioned newspapers for years - but they’re still here. This week Mediawatch looks at a new history of New Zealand newspapers from one hundred years ago up…
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Midweek Mediawatch - Plaintive plane complaints
19 Jun 2024In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about an emerging media consensus over our malfunctioning Defence Force aircraft, how rude words slipped though in music on…
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Popular podcast contradicts assumptions about attention spans
16 Jun 2024A journalist kicked out of his local café kicked off hot debate in the media this week, and Gen Z copped criticism in the middle of all that - and not for the first time. But the appetite for a…
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Media cop flak for airing data misuse allegations
Everyone seemed to agree the allegations of census information misused for political purposes were serious - serious enough for the PM to launch an independent inquiry on top of official…
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Mediawatch - New hires and more podcasts - but fewer post-cabs?
12 Jun 2024Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about more moves between broadcasters, more new podcasts - but fewer Prime Ministerial press…
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Can we trust surveys of our trust in the media?
9 Jun 2024Recent surveys have said our trust in media’s falling fast, and made plenty of headlines. But lately new surveys say our trust in the media isn’t plummeting. The latest one is part of a pitch to…
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Regional reporting cut back for NZME’s national focus
North Island daily and community papers are set to lose some reporters and news editors - including Hawkes Bay Today, just crowned ‘Newspaper of the Year’ for its vital emergency reporting of Cyclone…
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Midweek Mediawatch - changing stories on cancer drugs
5 Jun 2024In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the government's latest reason for not funding 13 cancer drugs, a mammoth loss expected at TVNZ, AI faking the…
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Shoddy statistics get the thumbs up emoji from media
2 Jun 2024Many media outlets reported interesting poll findings this week about using emojis at work. The only problem: the poll was almost meaningless, statistically-speaking. But it's far from the first time…
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Long-running bid to make big tech pay for news hits a snag
The media minister says a proposed law to get Google and Facebook pay for local news is not dead, but this week a Parliamentary committee and its government MPs did not support it. The government’s…
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Mediawatch for 2 June 2024
2 Jun 2024Long-running bid to make big tech pay for news hits a snag - so what happens next?; stories based on stats sliced from surveys; shock horror over incomplete houses.
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Midweek Mediawatch - new live news & music of the dead
29 May 2024Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about Duncan Garner's new live morning show - and an old name for a new 6pm TV news show. Also - a…
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Trading on - new deal saves local medical media
These are tough times for media - even those dedicated to covering big businesses and industries. After more than 20 years publishing health news and employing expert journalists, Barbara Fountain has…
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Midweek Mediawatch - Justice for Herbertville
22 May 2024Midweek Mediawatch: Hayden Donnell and Emile Donovan apologise poetically to a small Tararua seaside settlement inadvertently insulted by RNZ online. Also: Stuff launches crime podcasts you pay for -…
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Media oversight one-stop-shop stopped
A plan to update the system for regulating our media content has been running under the radar for years. Some agencies that do the job now have backed the move to one single body, but this week the…
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Mediawatch for 19 May 2024
19 May 2024A long-running plan to reform the oversight of our media has come to a sudden halt; how public toilets suddenly became political this week.
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Template responses help kill plans for online regulation
17 May 2024A proposal for online content regulation has been scrapped, with the government pointing to a mass of public submissions against the idea. But a closer look shows nearly all those submissions were…
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Midweek Mediawatch - TVNZ's cuts hit the screen
15 May 2024Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about Fair Go and Sunday coming to a sad but dignified end this week at TVNZ, as the broadcaster itself copped criticism for its handling of…
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Bid to backstop local news in tight times
12 May 2024Local newspapers are under pressure and some places have already lost their local news outlets. The Wairoa Star closed last week, but journalists want to keep going. A bid to re-start the Star online…
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Pre-budget teasers increase exposure - and scrutiny
These days governments roll out pre-Budget announcements almost daily for weeks in the run-up. It gives their selected plans more exposure at a time of their choosing - but it also attracts greater…
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Mediawatch: Sunday May 12
12 May 2024Pre-budget teasers increase exposure - and scrutiny; Green MP under pressure over conduct; bid to backstop local news; Gaza coverage attract complaints - and prizes.
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