Mediawatch
RNZ New Zealand
Mediawatch looks critically at the New Zealand media - television, radio, newspapers and magazines as well as the 'new' electronic media.
Location:
Wellington, New Zealand
Networks:
RNZ New Zealand
Description:
Mediawatch looks critically at the New Zealand media - television, radio, newspapers and magazines as well as the 'new' electronic media.
Twitter:
@MediawatchNZ
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/
Email:
mediawatch@radionz.co.nz
Episodes
Mediawatch for 2 June 2024
6/1/2024
Long-running bid to make big tech pay for news hits a snag - so what happens next?; stories based on stats sliced from surveys; shock horror over incomplete houses.
Duration:00:32:47
Midweek Mediawatch - new live news & music of the dead
5/29/2024
Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about Duncan Garner's new live morning show - and an old name for a new 6pm TV news show. Also - a couple of awkward moments at this year’s national journalism awards and an awkward confrontation between a rugby coach and a reporter; an outlet devoted to the music of the dead - and who gets struck by lightning?
Duration:00:20:48
Mediawatch for 26 May 2024
5/25/2024
New Zealand's big awards for journalists were given out this week at a time when many are losing their jobs. Also - Mediawatch talks to an editor who has secured the future of two important medical magazines in tight times - and looks at coverage of the A-League scandal that's posed some awkward questions with reputations at stake.
Duration:00:42:25
Midweek Mediawatch - Justice for Herbertville
5/22/2024
Midweek Mediawatch: Hayden Donnell and Emile Donovan apologise poetically to a small Tararua seaside settlement inadvertently insulted by RNZ online. Also: Stuff launches crime podcasts you pay for - while another new podcast hit a hitch this week; ScarJo's lawyers 1, Chat GPT nil.
Duration:00:18:25
Mediawatch for 19 May 2024
5/18/2024
A long-running plan to reform the oversight of our media has come to a sudden halt; how public toilets suddenly became political this week.
Duration:00:37:10
Midweek Mediawatch - TVNZ's cuts hit the screen
5/15/2024
Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about Fair Go and Sunday coming to a sad but dignified end this week at TVNZ, as the broadcaster itself copped criticism for its handling of the redundancies and closures. Also: a complaint against a newspaper’s controversial coverage of roading and new offerings from RNZ.
Duration:00:25:48
Mediawatch: Sunday May 12
5/11/2024
Pre-budget teasers increase exposure - and scrutiny; Green MP under pressure over conduct; bid to backstop local news; Gaza coverage attract complaints - and prizes.
Duration:00:35:33
Midweek Mediawatch - StuffHub takes shape
5/8/2024
Midweek Mediawatch: Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about new hires for the upcoming Stuff-Newshub 6pm bulletin. Also - TVNZ and the journalists’ union face off over job cuts while the outgoing boss of TV channel Three took a swipe at its state-owned rival; and a fringe online radio station's set to return after raising money from its listeners.
Duration:00:21:18
Mediawatch for 5 May 2024
5/4/2024
One opinion poll prompts intense political pushback; new report urges sweeping changes to media, law and funding - and fast; Wairoa Star closes after more than a century in print.
Duration:00:45:00
Midweek Mediawatch - polls, papers and a post-match snafu
5/1/2024
Midweek Mediawatch: Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about an MP taken to task about his knowledge of the arts - and a TV producer taking on a funding agency in court. Also: a new political poll causes ructions; a century-old newspaper folds - and a spurned sportsman's great save on camera.
Duration:00:21:33
Mediawatch for 28 April 2024
4/27/2024
New media minister rolls in after PM's surprise reshuffle; TV news and current affairs on the way down here, but highly competitive across the Tasman.
Duration:00:37:09
Midweek Mediawatch - Another broadcasting minister down
4/24/2024
In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the departure of broadcasting minister Melissa Lee - and the arrival of the next one Paul Goldsmith. Also: a controversial TV interview with the Israeli ambassador - and some truly startling stuff in a Stuff illustration.
Duration:00:23:59
Mediawatch for 21 April 2024
4/20/2024
Stuff is taking over Newshub's 6pm TV news. A bold move for an outfit that's never been a broadcaster before. Will it work? Also: Mediawatch talks to two editors about the latest survey showing another alarming slump in New Zealanders' trust in the news.
Duration:00:39:49
Midweek Mediawatch - Stuff's bold TV play
4/17/2024
Midweek Mediawatch - Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about Stuff leaping into uncharted waters by taking on Newshub at 6. Also: TVNZ going 'beyond broadcasting,' NZ Post and NZME add to predictions of print's demise; recognition for a one-man band in Southland - and Colin's mistaken identity mix-up . . .again.
Duration:00:23:30
Mediawatch for 14 April 2024
4/13/2024
End of TV news as we know it? TVNZ cuts back and Newshub closes down. Newshub's news boss responds; the minister plays for time; a former minister fights back
Duration:00:37:22
Midweek Mediawatch - little light at the end of the TV news tunnel
4/10/2024
Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about an historic day - not in a good way. The confirmation of the closure of Newshub and more cuts confirmed at TVNZ means more than 300 journalists' jobs will go by midyear - and TV news and current affairs will shrivel. Also: the latest report on trust in the news media reveals a further decline - and listeners' questions about what it all means.
Duration:00:33:12
Fair Go and daily news bulletins to close at TVNZ
4/8/2024
TVNZ has confirmed Fair Go - on air for 47 years - and news shows Midday and Tonight will cease next month. The future of Sunday will be confirmed tomorrow. Meanwhile a decision on alternatives to a proposal to close Newshub in June is expected tomorrow from its owner Warner Brothers Discovery.
Duration:00:14:32
Mediawatch for 7 April 2024
4/6/2024
We talk to an editor keeping an eye on where public money for public services ends up and the government’s new political action plan gets the media’s attention.
Duration:00:35:17
Midweek Mediawatch - chunking out some decision gates
4/3/2024
In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the government's new chunked-out action plan, a new channel coming to the ThreeNow app - and why media companies chasing online engagement risk alienating their users.
Duration:00:20:39
Mediawatch for 31 March 2024
3/30/2024
Gabrielle review lessons for media; Dolphin drama fires up media.
Duration:00:33:15