Media

It's been running since 2011, but today the TV epic Game of Thrones begins its final season. The series has broken viewer records and won 47 Emmy awards. It tells the story of the bloody struggle to… Audio

After Christchurch, governments around the world are gearing up against the ‘weaponisation’ of the internet by terrorists and extremists. The grim content they create also forces news media to make… Audio

Over the past four years, a small  team of local journalists at multimedia outlet Vice has published New Zealand and Pacific stories watched and read around the world over the past four years. A new… Video, Audio

Governments gear up to crack down on social media: how to handle content created by extremists; Vice NZ caught in global squeeze. Programme Code Participants Colin Peacock, Jeremy Rose Topics Audio

The Wikileaks founder's seven-year stay in a London embassy is over. Julian Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case. The case… Audio

Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Karyn Hay on Lately: This week Colin Peacock talks to Karyn about a student paper pulling up trees in Dunedin; arguments over archiving extremists’ content online;… Audio

100 years ago today, New Zealand voted to introduce Prohibition - a ban on all alcohol - when a national referendum came out in favour of banning liquor by over 13,000 votes.  Audio, Gallery

How close are we to the target of Smokefree by 2025? Recent reports suggest not that close. In a piece on Newsroom Anna Rawhiti-Connell argues our shaming of smokers is not an effective tactic. Audio

Media commentator Gavin Ellis talks to Kathryn about the Fiji Prime Minister's apology to three wrongfully-detained New Zealand journalists, claiming it rings hollow when it comes from the man… Audio

The Singaporean government is proposing a law where it will be the one who decides which news is "fake" and which is "real". With the ruling party having 80 per cent of the seats in parliament the law… Audio

Banning the gunman’s so-called manifesto was a controversial call by the Chief Censor last week. It has divided opinion among the media over whether they should delve into it - and just how much of it… Audio

Normal party politics have been mostly in abeyance since last month’s terrorist attack. But some political reporters are already returning to political reporting as usual - analysing political… Audio

Some people worry that technology could be changing the way we read. So are we all becoming skimmers and headline grasping multi-taskers, losing our ability to concentrate on a long form article, or… Audio