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Mediawatch looks critically at the New Zealand media - television, radio, newspapers and magazines as well as the 'new' electronic media.

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Mediawatch looks critically at the New Zealand media - television, radio, newspapers and magazines as well as the 'new' electronic media.

    Mediawatch for 16 June 2024

    Mediawatch for 16 June 2024

    How the media copped criticism for reporting allegations of personal data misused for political purposes - and the struggle to get meaningful responses from official sources. Also: the popularity of an ultra-long local podcast contradicts assumptions about short attention spans - and how one journalist's trip to his local cafe ended up as national news.

    • 40 min
    Midweek Mediawatch - New jobs, more podcasts, fewer post-cabs

    Midweek Mediawatch - New jobs, more podcasts, fewer post-cabs

    Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about more moves between broadcasters, more new podcasts - but fewer Prime Ministerial press conferences. Also: TVNZ makes football fans happy.

    • 21 min
    Mediawatch for 9 June 2024

    Mediawatch for 9 June 2024

    Regional reporting cut back for NZME's new national focus; sports news that was too late - and too early; the controversy over cancer treatment funding missing from the Budget,can we trust surveys of our media which say we don't trust them?

    • 39 min
    Midweek Mediawatch - changing stories on cancer drugs

    Midweek Mediawatch - changing stories on cancer drugs

    In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the government's latest reason for not funding 13 cancer drugs, a mammoth loss expected at TVNZ, AI faking the news and even our contemporary history  - and a slight directed at the Ōtaki Today.

    • 23 min
    Mediawatch for 2 June 2024

    Mediawatch for 2 June 2024

    Long-running bid to make big tech pay for news hits a snag - so what happens next?; stories based on stats sliced from surveys; shock horror over incomplete houses.

    • 32 min
    Midweek Mediawatch - new live news & music of the dead

    Midweek Mediawatch - new live news & music of the dead

    Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about Duncan Garner's new live morning show - and an old name for a new 6pm TV news show.  Also - a couple of awkward moments at this year’s national journalism awards and an awkward confrontation between a rugby coach and a reporter; an outlet devoted to the music of the dead - and who gets struck by lightning?

    • 20 min

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