Journalism

Ten years ago, the journalists' union held a summit at Parliament under the banner 'Journalism Matters' to air their fears about commercial pressures diminishing the quality of news. 10 years later… Audio

After being rocked awake by the massive 7.8 earthquake that hit North Canterbury last November, RNZ reporter Phil Pennington was among the first reporters to be sent to Kaikoura to assess the damage.

Jon Sopel was personally attacked by US President Donald Trump when he tried to ask a question at a press conference Video, Audio

NZ journalist Emma Beales has won this year’s James W Foley Freedom Award for her work. Since 2012 has covered the civil war in Syria. Audio

Kim Hill asks journalist Matt Nippert how and why US billionaire Peter Thiel gained both New Zealand citizenship and millions of dollars profit from a taxpayer-funded scheme. Audio

2017 is an election year. Will it be a goldmine for our political journalists, or a big yawn? Did John Key's resignation late last year really stir things up? Will New Zealanders bother to vote or can… Audio

Almost a media magnate, Neil Wilson co-owns the Golden Bay Weekly. He also owns the Geraldine News - who The Weekend heard from a few weeks back with Jan Finlayson. But it is to Golden Bay we are… Audio

Donna Chisholm has been fighting the good fight for 40 years.

Donna is editor-at-large of North & South and a staff writer for the Listener, with specialist areas including health, social issues… Audio

Olivier Weber has been a war correspondent for 25 years,covering conflict in Central Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Iraq. He was an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris… Audio

The Kapiti Coast District has just voted in its first ethnic mayor, Malaysian-Indian K. Gurunathan. Lynda Chanwai-Earle travels up the shaken post-quake, tsunami-alert region to meet the new "Guru of… Audio, Gallery

University of Texas professor of journalism Robert Jensen on how and why the media missed the mark so widely with its predictions in the US election. Audio

Writer and psychology professor Andrew Solomon is fascinated with places in major transformation – cultural, political and spiritual. He talks with Wallace Chapman about what he's learned, traveling… Audio

Russell Brown talks with Laura O'Connell Rapira, Toby Morris, Steve Abel and Sina Brown-Davis about how online awareness can be transformed in to action which changes society. Audio

Kim Hill talks to astronomer and Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. He is part of a group of world-leading experts… Audio