Media

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

As Facebook faces legal pushback in the US for exploiting users’ data, three reporters here produced eye-opening cautionary tales of online intrusion into people’s most private stuff for commercial… Audio

Behind the Scenes of Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan and Ali Ventura Audio

Statistics are MPs favourite weapons. Question time is heavy with mutually exclusive numbers - which are usually all true. Audio

Is name suppression through the courts still effective in the age of the internet? Audio

Last weekend marked the 75th anniversary of the arrival in New Zealand of over 700 Polish child refugees during World War II. Commemorations were held at Pahīatua. Video, Audio, Gallery

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about New Zealand on Air feeding the big public media policy debate - and discovering people still hate ads; a pair of… Audio

Since launching as an independent TV-and-pop-culture website five years ago, The Spinoff website has changed the face of New Zealand media. Audio

A media monitoring company reckons leaders who are ‘out there’ more in the media reap rewards when the news turns bad for them.  But would it be better for the rest of us if they stuck to their… Video, Audio

Even before it screened here, the latest fly-on-the-wall royal TV documentary prompted a pile-on from pundits here who are hostile to Meghan and Harry.  Audio