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What's it like being a grandparent in your 30s?
At 37, Brisbane radio presenter Matty Acton is learning how to be a grandfather.
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Nintendo's new console, the Switch 2, reviewed by a family
10 Jul 2025How does Nintendo's fastest-selling console ever stack up after a few weeks?
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Is thumbs up emoji good or passive aggressive?
7 Jul 2025How did emojis became the most confusing kind of online language?
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Mediawatch: Awkward opinions test broadcasters' backbone
6 Jul 2025Two big public broadcasters have been on the back foot this week over the way they've handled other people's opinions on Israel and Gaza. Video
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Remember early, grainy digital cameras? Gen Z wants them
4 Jul 2025Young people are embracing the grainy, nostalgic vibe of early digital cameras so they can spend less time on their phones.
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Can you turn off generative AI?
29 Jun 2025Generative AI is increasingly entering our lives, as big tech companies make them the default.
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How Lisette Reymer became an accidental war correspondent
1 Jul 2025Security with secretive pasts, heart-breaking stories on borders and running on the adrenaline of 20-hour workdays.
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Inside the head of 'rockstar developer' Hideo Kojima
30 Jun 2025In this NZ exclusive, we sit down with the legendary game developer to talk about his highly anticipated new game, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.
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Should we fear AI?
24 Jun 2025AI is starting to take over the jobs of workers. But it's not the workers you might think.
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RNZ calls for voluntary redundancies after Budget funding cut
17 Jun 2025Staff found out about the voluntary redundancies in an email on Tuesday morning.
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Students hope prisoners' newsletter 'removes some stigma'
12 Jun 2025The new publication is being delivered to inmates at prisons in Canterbury.
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Digital whodunnit for the TikTok generation
9 Jun 2025Inspired by millennial television shows like Gossip Girl, The Sender, which tackles online abuse is aimed squarely at a Gen Z audience.
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No changes to news with Trade Me sale - Stuff boss
The new ownership structure is about expanding and diversifying the business, Sinead Boucher says. Audio
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Trade Me to buy 50% of Stuff Digital
3 Jun 2025Under the agreement, Stuff's property section will become Trade Me Property branded. Audio
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Junk food ads are flooding your teen's social media feeds and influencing what they eat
2 Jun 2025The widespread marketing of junk food on social media is playing a role in teens' food choices, new research suggests.
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More money for journalists, less for RNZ
23 May 2025The government is putting more money into hiring local journalists, but cutting Radio New Zealand's budget.
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'I became and remain unemployable': former TVNZ presenter
14 May 2025The former TVNZ presenter has been granted his request to move his case to the Employment Court.
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How would banning teenagers from social media work?
The government is proposing a ban on those under 16 using social media.
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NZME achieves peace deal with latest board-backed nominations
9 May 2025The board has backed the nomination of former National Cabinet minister Steven Joyce as chair, and Canadian billionaire Jim Grenon's bid to join him at the board table.
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A 'win for the ages': How the world's media saw Labor win
Anthony Albanese has outperformed former Labour luminaries, Kevin Rudd and Bob Hawke, one report says.
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The journalist who first called Donald Trump a 'short-fingered vulgarian'
Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter got in Trump's firing line after coining a description of the business tycoon that has now become a running joke in pop culture.
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How Shepherdess magazine bucked print’s decline
24 Apr 2025A magazine about country life that connects often isolated women who live on farms recently printed its fifth anniversary edition.
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RNZ launches journalism scholarship programme
13 Apr 2025The programme includes five one-off scholarships worth up to $8000 each.
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Nigel Latta: 'There's a lot of AI-based parenting stuff out there'
9 Apr 2025Psychologist and media personality Nigel Latta is back with an app designed to give parents personalised advice about their children.
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NZME boardroom battle: 'Try for a fresh start for all' - businessman
26 Mar 2025The Auckland businessman looking to oust the board of media company NZME believes he has the numbers to achieve change, and told the current board resistance was "futile".
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RNZ to run new series of political polls
The RNZ-Reid Research Poll will debut in April, with about four polls each year.
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Billionaire says concerns over editorial control at NZME a 'side issue'
12 Mar 2025Private equity tycoon Jim Grenon says editorial content is a "side issue" and journalists should be "optimistic" about the future.
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What happens when a makeup artist loses his sight?
6 Mar 2025Ari Kerssens grew up watching queer makeup artists on YouTube and enrolled in a makeup course towards the end of school. It all changed when he lost most of his sight at age 19. Video
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