Tag: News Media

Pacific Media Watch Palestine solidarity protesters today demonstrated at the Auckland headquarters of Television New Zealand, accusing the country’s major TV network of broadcasting “propaganda”...

RNZ News Melissa Lee has been ousted from New Zealand's coalition cabinet and stripped of the Media portfolio, and Penny Simmonds has lost the Disability...

By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Warner Bros Discovery has done a deal with Stuff to provide news to replace Newshub. It will keep news...

This week the two biggest TV broadcasters in Aotearoa New Zealand confirmed plans to cut news programmes by midyear - and the jobs of...

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog The day the news axe fell: Presenters, insiders fear ‘huge blow for democracy’ The future of New...

RNZ News Warner Bros Discovery will struggle to retain viewers in New Zealand if it has no news operation, Newshub journalist Paddy Gower predicts, as...

By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer Warner Bros Discovery has confirmed its plans to shut down Newshub in Aotearoa New Zealand, including its website and...

RNZ News All of Newshub operations -- part of New Zealand's second largest television news network channel Three -- are to be shut down and...

Pacific Media Watch Just a third of New Zealanders now say they trust the news. That is the major finding of Auckland University of Technology's...

Pacific Media Watch The New York-based media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists says the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to...

RNZ News New Zealand's media and communications minister is defending pulling out of pre-booked interviews about her portfolio, saying they would have been "boring" for...

RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter The future of Aotearoa New Zealand television news and current affairs is in the balance at the...

By Khalia Strong of Pacific Media Network There are questions about what the future of media will look like for Pacific media platforms in the...

RNZ Pacific The union representing Television New Zealand staff is calling on the public to join a campaign protesting the broadcaster's plans to axe programmes...

Pacific Media Watch Television New Zealand’s chief executive has been challenged by the public broadcaster’s Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver at a fiery staff meeting over...

RNZ News Television New Zealand is proposing to axe its long-running and award-winning current affairs programme Sunday, hosted by veteran broadcaster Miriama Kamo. It is part...

Pacific Media Watch About 25 pro-Palestinian protesters picketed the Auckland headquarters of Radio New Zealand today in the second of two demonstrations claiming that media...

RNZ News Television New Zealand will start talks from tomorrow with staff who will lose their jobs in the state broadcaster's bid to stay "sustainable". It...

Pacific Media Watch A report by a media watchdog has revealed the United Kingdom’s media bias in covering the Hamas attack on October 7 and...

By Monika Singh The University of the South Pacific will host a major Pacific international media conference in July to address critical issues in the...

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand news media came under fire at today’s Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war...

Pacific Media Watch Stuff, New Zealand’s biggest independently owned news business, today announced it will stop sharing content to X (formerly Twitter), effective immediately. A media...