Gavin Ellis

Our media were in emergency mode yet again this week, offering hours of extra coverage on air, online and in print. Outlets in the hardest-hit places reported the basics - even without access to… Video, Audio

The legislation for our new public media entity is now before Parliament - but the clock’s ticking on public input. This week media executives, experts and some legal eagles cast their eye over it -… Video, Audio

An obituary is about life, not death. Writing them is a special art.  Audio

Deepfakes, synthetic media - the latest and most advanced techniques to spread disinformation and deception.  Audio

NZME’s bold bid to buy its biggest rival for $1 foundered in the High Court this week. But Stuff - our biggest publisher of news - is still on the block along with the nation’s most popular magazines… Audio

The Broadcasting Minister, Kris Faafoi, has just announced a support package for the media industry.

The $50 million package includes $21 million to cut transmission fees for broadcast media for six… Audio

It's been a week since media companies appeared before the Epidemic Response Committee, where many pleaded for urgent government support to help them survive the Covid-19 pandemic.

NZME last week… Audio

News media representatives set out the crisis their industry faces to Parliament’s Epidemic Response Committee on Wednesday before the government finalises a package of measures to help them survive… Audio

As the first anniversary of the Christchurch mosque attacks approaches, Gavin says news media will need to tread carefully. Also the possibility of no radio cricket commentary in future. Audio

Victoria University's annual survey on trust in New Zealand showed that only one in ten has complete or a lot of trust in our media while more than a third had little trust and 12 per cent had none at… Audio

Rod Oram, Siouxsie Wiles, Courtney Johnston and Gavin Ellis look back on the year in business, science, art and media. Audio

Rod Oram, Siouxsie Wiles, Courtney Johnston and Gavin Ellis look back on the year in business, science, art and media Audio

Social media giants continue to siphon off a large portion of the traditional media's advertising dollar. Is it time they paid for content? Gavin joins Kathryn to talk about the NZME/Stuff 'Kiwishare'… Audio

Gavin says to restore reader confidence, The Otago Daily Times must publish the results of its review of processes that led to Garrick Tremain's offensive measles cartoon being published. And the… Audio

Gavin says Google's refusal to recognise specialist news service Businessdesk as a verified news source suggests the search engine's governance structure is, at best, arbitrary. Gavin Ellis is a media… Audio

The launch of a pay walled website by Business Desk will spell competition for National Business Review, and how much have our attitudes to media changed over 30 years. NZ on Air commissioned research… Audio

Organisers of a gun show selling legal antique firearms can't get a plug in their local paper due to a ban on all firearms content.

The news website Stuff put a blanket-ban in place across all its… Audio