Tag: RNZ

RNZ News Emotions are running high as the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti has been welcomed to Laurie Hill Park in Whangārei by mana whenua. Thousands have...

By Jo Moir, RNZ News political editor, and Craig McCulloch, deputy political editor New Zealand's Labour Party is demanding Winston Peters be stood down as...

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 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...

RNZ News After 21 years, Radio New Zealand's Kim Hill has hosted Saturday Morning for the final time. In the final hour of the show on...

RNZ News The integration of RNZ's digital team with the wider news team was meant to take place during the merger with TVNZ that never...

External experts are poring over the "inappropriate editing" of international news published online by RNZ. It has already tightened editorial checks and stood down...

RNZ News The RNZ board is meeting tonight to begin setting up an independent review on how pro-Russian sentiment was inserted into a number of...

RNZ News RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson says the New Zealand public has been let down after pro-Russian sentiment was added to a number of...

RNZ News A Ukrainian man who complained about an RNZ story last year having Russian propaganda says his concerns are only now being noticed. It comes...

RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer RNZ is investigating how online stories about the war in Ukraine, supplied by an international news agency, were...

Axing the proposed merger of TVNZ and RNZ saved the New Zealand government a significant amount of money but left it with the problems...

RNZ News It has been a year since the violent end of the illegal occupation at Parliament in Aotearoa New Zealand. If you thought you...

ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has confirmed today what pundits have predicted for weeks: the plan for a public...

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...

ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis The Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill -- introduced to Parliament this week -- will have a long journey before it...

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...

COMMENTARY: By David Reid of Local Democracy Reporting A media bribe? More like the deal of the century. Fifty-five million dollars does sound like a lot...

ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views The proposal for a new entity to replace Television New Zealand and RNZ has two fundamental flaws that...

COMMENTARY: By Paul Thompson The New Zealand government last week unveiled the creation of a new public media entity that will incorporate RNZ and TVNZ....

ANALYSIS: By Peter Thompson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington The announcement of the government’s decision to merge RNZ and TVNZ into a...

RNZ News RNZ and TVNZ will be subsidiaries of a new mega public media organisation, Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi has confirmed. Faafoi announced the long-awaited changes...