Tag: NZ On Air
TVNZ plans to axe Fair Go, Sunday, midday and night news...
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...
RNZ Mediawatch: NZ media facing an apocalypse now?
For years news media bosses warned the creaking business model backing journalism would fail at a major local outlet. It finally happened this week...
Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence
RNZ News
Former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson has defended Aotearoa New Zealand's public interest journalism fund that his government started during the covid-19 pandemic, after...
NZ election 2023: How a better funding model can help media...
SPEECH: By Myles Thomas
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RNZ launches new initiative to tell stories of Asian communities in...
RNZ News
From today readers of rnz.co.nz will see a change to the home page, and a new initiative to tell the stories of Aotearoa...
First-ever recipients of ‘outstanding’ Asian music funding unveiled
By Blessen Tom, RNZ News journalist
Fifteen artists have been selected as the inaugural beneficiaries of NZ On Air's New Music Pan-Asian funding.
The initiative, the...
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...
Myles Thomas: Debate over public media merger is the proof we...
COMMENTARY: By Myles Thomas
How the RNZ/TVNZ merger went from its first reading in Parliament to the legislative extinction list is an example of why...
Siouxsie Wiles mini-doco funding criticism does vanishing act online
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Why did criticism of a modest sum spent on a single mini-documentary made two years ago suddenly spring up...
Perceptions over NZ’s public interest journalism project – saint or sinner?
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia-Pacific Report
“Public interest journalism plays a crucial role in promoting the quality of public life, protecting individuals from...
Pacific National Radio Trust welcomes public funding boost for Pasifika journalism
Pacific Media Network News
National Pacific Radio Trust has won a year's funding from NZ On Air’s Public Interest Journalism Fund to enhance its reporting...
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...
New Zealand kids prefer YouTube, Netflix and TokTok to local media
From RNZ Mediawatch
New Zealand children use a lot less Kiwi media than they used to. New research shows its Netflix, YouTube and TikTok engaging...