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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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    • 4.8 • 4 Ratings

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

    Midweek Mediawatch - Kate, Coutts, murder in Moscow

    Midweek Mediawatch - Kate, Coutts, murder in Moscow

    Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about the dolphin drama that divided the nation (and the media) last weekend - and royal revelations that overshadowed a terrorist atrocity in Moscow.  Also: the PM and party leaders drop hints about upcoming policy to help cash-strapped news media. 

    • 20 min
    Mediawatch for 24 March 2024

    Mediawatch for 24 March 2024

    Mediawatch looks at the fallout from Winston Peters' criticism of the media in his State of The Nation speech.

    • 32 min
    Midweek Mediawatch - Rod Oram; state of the Winston

    Midweek Mediawatch - Rod Oram; state of the Winston

    Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Hayden Donnell talked to Emile Donovan about Winston Peters attacking the news media in his State of the Nation speech - and the death of Rod Oram, a much-admired journalist dedicated to coverage of business and climate change. Also: how many journalists are left in New Zealand - and the rights and wrongs of airing 'hot mic' comments. 

    • 28 min
    Mediawatch for 17 March 2024

    Mediawatch for 17 March 2024

    What will government do about the great TV news meltdown?; Stuff deploys AI for DIY news.

    • 33 min
    Stuff deploys AI for DIY news

    Stuff deploys AI for DIY news

    Artificial intelligence tech threatens to take our eyeballs even further away from the outlets which produce news - but it’s also a tool they can use to make more of it. This week Stuff - which has warned AI could wreck the business of journalism - used Chat GPT to write a stories about readers' opinions. Mediawatch asks an unimpressed editor if we all just have to get used to this now.

    • 14 min
    Midweek Mediawatch - manic Monday for news & fake photo frenzy

    Midweek Mediawatch - manic Monday for news & fake photo frenzy

    Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about a manic Monday afternoon of news - cricket, Oscars, terror in the skies . . . and the post-Cabinet media conference. Also: the royal photo fakery frenzy; political responses to the TV newspocalypse; US politics satirised and fact-checked by TikTok; the leap-year community's struggles. 

    • 24 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
4 Ratings

4 Ratings

Doc Cottle ,

Long form media criticism

I listen to this now more than I do it's US counterpar, On the Media. The review of the week's happenings format is well sutied to the topic, although it is pretty quickly apparent who the bad actors are.

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