Tag: Gavin Ellis
Gavin Ellis: Thank God for news media in a storm
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
The brave little shrubs are doing their valiant best to stay intact as a plant pot skids across our balcony in...
Gavin Ellis: News media face distrust by association with social media
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
A new study suggests that the news media’s tanking levels of public trust may be made worse merely by association with...
Gavin Ellis: NZ government media teams that breach the law
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
New Zealand's Ombudsman, Peter Boshier, has given government agency media teams a well-deserved kick up the fundamental over some of their...
Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t...
The global response to the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Video: Al Jazeera
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views
Nothing justifies the...
Gavin Ellis: Show us the full horror of war in Ukraine
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
Atrocities and total war are not pixilated or sanitised. They bring death with unimaginable brutality and obliterate lives with indifference. It...
Gavin Ellis: Fundamental flaws in public media plans call for big...
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views
The proposal for a new entity to replace Television New Zealand and RNZ has two fundamental flaws that...
Gavin Ellis: Copycat media abuse from ragtag bag of protesters
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
It is common practice for journalists to share contact details and locations in hostile environments such as war zones. Something is...
Gavin Ellis: Lockdown musings over media lessons from a pandemic
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views
It appears we are a nation of selfish malcontents for whom enough is never enough.
That is one of...
Gavin Ellis: Dregs in the news media paywall teacup
COMMENT: By Gavin Ellis, Knightly Views
I have been reading the tea leaves in the bottom of the online subscription cup.
My fortune-telling has been assisted...
PMC’s 10th birthday Pacific ‘overview’ highlighted on national radio
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Pacific Media Centre, well established as a champion for media freedom, celebrated its 10th anniversary last week and the milestone...