Tag: Maori media

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 News Draft legislation which would see state broadcasters RNZ and TVNZ subsumed into a new entity has been published ahead of its introduction to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...