Tag: RNZ Mediawatch
Mediawatch: Kiingi Tuheitia’s tangihanga – epic broadcast marks new epoch for...
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
"Anticipation is growing. The warriors are ready. They're preparing themselves. The paddlers are already on their...
Stuff to provide news bulletins to replace Newshub on Three
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...
RNZ Mediawatch: End of the news in NZ as we know...
This week the two biggest TV broadcasters in Aotearoa New Zealand confirmed plans to cut news programmes by midyear - and the jobs of...
‘Economic headwinds’ force Newshub shutdown, media jobs cut in NZ
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...
NZ media minister Melissa Lee says interviews would have been ‘boring’
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...
Mediawatch: TV news meltdown – what will NZ government do?
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...
Mediawatch: Apocalypse now for NZ news – take 2?
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Television New Zealand’s proposals to balance its worsening books by killing news and current affairs programmes...
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...
Mediawatch: Media in the middle of Gaza claims and counterclaims
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Major media organisations all over the world are copping criticism for the way they’re reporting what’s happening...
NZ election 2023: Political advocacy angst as campaign begins – officially
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, Mediawatch presenter
The New Zealand Herald copped criticism for publishing a front-page attack ad targeting the National Party leader this...
Mediawatch: Putting right what went wrong with RNZ’s online news
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
A review of RNZ's online news has called for greater oversight and enforcement of standards after a crisis sparked...
Mediawatch: NZ election poll analysis unhitches itself from reality
RNZ Mediawatch
Nothing much changed in a 1News Verian poll released last Monday. However, some commentators treated the boring results as a blank canvas on...
Mediawatch: Further fallout as RNZ takes out the ‘Kremlin garbage’
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 investigating series of ‘Kremlin-friendly’ story edits in audit
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...
Mediawatch: Signal to noise – is NZ’s AM radio really under...
RNZ Mediawatch
Old-fashioned AM radio was an information lifeline for many in Aotearoa New Zealand during last month's Cyclone Gabrielle when other sources wilted without...
Mediawatch on Gabrielle: ‘I’m proud to be working on this newspaper’
A powerful day in the history of the Gisborne Herald. Video: Gisborne Herald
RNZ Mediawatch
New Zealand's media were in emergency mode yet again this week,...
Mediawatch: NZ’s public media policy put out of its misery
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...
Mediawatch: NZ public media merger meets growing resistance as clock ticks
MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s hints this week that reforms will be pared back in 2023 -- and an...
Mediawatch: Anti-vax parents create media conundrum and criticism
MEDIAWATCH: By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
One press conference question at a Prime Ministerial summit in Aotearoa New Zealand kicked off a wave of...
A NZ documentary revival spotlights crime and injustice
MEDIAWATCH: By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
A recent revival of local prime-time TV documentaries has highlighted some thorny social issues and raised awkward questions...
Mediawatch: Coverage vital for NZ’s democracy but fact-checking in short supply
MEDIAWATCH: By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
Once again Aotearoa New Zealand's local elections were plagued by low voter turnout and a lack of engagement....
TVNZ’s media marriage at first sight – ending in tears or...
MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Media execs and concerned citizens alike aired their fears about the government’s public media plan -- and...