Tag: Newsroom
NZ Speaker reverses journalist bar from abuse apology at Parliament
By Giles Dexter, RNZ political reporter
An investigative journalist who was barred from attending New Zealand's national apology to survivors of abuse in care has...
NZ Herald’s disclosure obligation to readers: Why are we waiting?
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
The New Zealand Herald and its publisher are failing to follow a golden rule: Engage with readers when they question your...
NZ media people react with ‘shock’ over plan to close Newshub...
Pacific Media Watch
Newshub, one of the key media companies in Aotearoa New Zealand, is to close its newsroom on June 30, reports RNZ News.
Staff...
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...
Today FM hosts abruptly taken off air and told ‘play music’...
RNZ News
The Mediaworks' radio station Today FM abandoned scheduling today when presenters broke from programming to question the future of their employer.
Broadcasters told their...
A NZ media conundrum over how to cover the ‘dangerous’ conspiracists
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
A documentary from Stuff Circuit this week delved into Aotearoa New Zealand's growing extreme far-right and anti-vax movement.
Why did...
Sick and tired of the sickness – some media try to...
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
Covid has now killed around 1700 people in New Zealand, but much of our news reporting and commentary has focused on...
Two decades on from 9/11 and a Pacific newsroom sense of...
FLASHBACK: By David Robie
When I arrived at my office at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji on the morning of 12 September...
The man who kicked the hornet’s nest – focus on the...
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis, Knightly Views columnist
Sometime this week Newsroom co-editor Mark Jennings is due to be interviewed under caution by the New Zealand...
Pacific media freedom and news ‘black holes’ worsen for World Press...
ANALYSIS: By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
While Pacific countries have got off rather lightly in a major global media freedom report last...
Fiji opposition seeks Malolo damage probe, criticises local media
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji's opposition has called for a full investigation by an impartial committee into allegations of collusion by government officials in the destruction...
Fiji PM apologises to NZ journalists detained over Malolo probe
By RNZ News
Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has apologised to three New Zealand journalists detained overnight in Suva by a "group of rogue officers"
Newsroom...