Tag: Maori media
Mediawatch: Kiingi Tuheitia’s tangihanga – epic broadcast marks new epoch for...
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
"Anticipation is growing. The warriors are ready. They're preparing themselves. The paddlers are already on their...
Maiki Sherman named as TVNZ’s first wahine Māori political editor
Pacific Media Watch
Journalist Maiki Sherman (Ngāpuhi/Whakatōhea) has been appointed Television New Zealand's political editor, the first wahine Māori to lead the 1News political team...
Mediawatch: Kiri Allan’s resignation sparks another ‘on principle’ at RNZ
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
A board member at RNZ appointed less than a month ago quit this week after making public comments on...
Jackson’s Plan B for public media may prioritise Māori and Pacific...
Axing the proposed merger of TVNZ and RNZ saved the New Zealand government a significant amount of money but left it with the problems...
Gavin Ellis: An open letter to the incoming media minister
OPEN LETTER: By Gavin Ellis to the new Minister of Broadcasting and Media Willie Jackson
Dear Minister,
Congratulations on assuming the Broadcasting and Media role.
The announcement...
RNZ-TVNZ mega-entity named ‘Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media’ in draft law
RNZ News
Draft legislation which would see state broadcasters RNZ and TVNZ subsumed into a new entity has been published ahead of its introduction to...
NZ media fund gives boost to new Māori journalism projects, training
RNZ Mediawatch
The first tranche of the New Zealand government’s $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund has been allocated - against a backdrop of criticism...
Major NZ media networks collaborate to develop talented Pacific journalists
Pacific Media Network News
The number and quality of Pacific journalists are expected to rise in a never before seen collaboration between four major New...
Māori in the gallery: Coping with daily racism in the Beehive...
COMMENT: By Rukuwai Tīpene-Allan
“Welfare dependent”, “inferior”, “savages”, “natives”...
Walking through Parliament, I head to my office in the press gallery, passing gilded portraits of reporters...
Jacinda Ardern on health, Ihumātao, Matariki, housing and Māori issues
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Three years ago, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern campaigned on kindness and transformation.
As New Zealand heads to the voting booths...
Carmen Parahi: The Fourth Estate needs to be aware of how...
COMMENTARY: By Carmen Parahi
Since 2001, I’ve worked in both mainstream news and Māori media. I love journalism but it’s a hard slog being a...
Fears the future of Te Karere Māori news is on the...
By Leigh-Marama McLachlan, RNZ Māori News Correspondent
The future of the flagship Māori news show Te Karere is on the line as the New...
A lone Māori voice raising Te Ao issues at the covid-19...
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
You might not know his face, but Māori Television’s Heta Gardiner has been one of the most valuable and...
Māori TV’s Iulia Leilua wins top Māori journalism awards
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Native Affairs journalist Iulia Leilua of Māori Television has won two major awards at the 2018 Ngā Kupu Ora Awards.
Leilua is...