Public Broadcasting

As the government ponders its policy for the media, state-owned TVNZ has got a green light to put millions of dollars into ”betting big on local content”. This week it unveiled its programmes for… Audio

Visiting Canadian professor Robert Hackett is currently in the country as a short-term Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury's Erskine program. He is an expert on media coverage… Audio

Melanie Bunce cut her teeth in journalism at the Otago Daily Times. Now she teaches and researches it at one of the UK’s most prestigious journalism schools and tracks the trends that shape the… Audio

Kris Faafoi was promoted in a cabinet reshuffle this week, but he still has the problem portfolio of broadcasting.  The last vestige of predecessor’s policy was killed off this week when the committee… Audio

The chair sacked the chief and then quit himself. No-one seems to want the rest of his board of governors. How did Australia’s public broadcaster the ABC end up in such a mess so suddenly? And how can… Audio

Opposition broadcasting spokesperson Melissa Lee once made publicly-funded TV programmes for a small audience on TVNZ. Now she has a bill before Parliament to force funders to reveal more about the… Audio

The government has allocated an additional $15 million in the Budget for public broadcasting, but it is not clear where the new investment will go or when we will see the benefits. Audio

While our government is promising to put more public money into public broadcasting, Switzerland is about to vote on whether to pull the plug on it altogther. Video, Audio

The three parties now in our government went into the election with different ideas for broadcasting and the media. Mediawatch asks the new minister Clare Curran: what’s the plan now? Audio

Labour leader Jacinda Ardern has already cast her vote in the election as she unveiled a $38 million annual boost for the film industry and public broadcasting. Video, Audio

Minor political parties’ policies on broadcasting rarely make headlines, but newcomer Gareth Morgan got the media’s attention this week with his proposal to get rid of state-owned broadcasters. Audio

Christchurch’s CTV channel survived a quake that killed half its staff and wrecked its premises five years ago. But changing technology, media economics and public broadcasting policy have combined to… Video, Audio