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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

Description:

Mediawatch looks critically at the New Zealand media - television, radio, newspapers and magazines as well as the 'new' electronic media.

Language:

English


Episodes

Midweek Mediawatch - Kate, Coutts, murder in Moscow

3/27/2024
Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about the dolphin drama that divided the nation (and the media) last weekend - and royal revelations that overshadowed a terrorist atrocity in Moscow. Also: the PM and party leaders drop hints about upcoming policy to help cash-strapped news media.

Duration:00:20:20

Mediawatch for 24 March 2024

3/23/2024
Mediawatch looks at the fallout from Winston Peters' criticism of the media in his State of The Nation speech.

Duration:00:32:08

Midweek Mediawatch - Rod Oram; state of the Winston

3/20/2024
Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Hayden Donnell talked to Emile Donovan about Winston Peters attacking the news media in his State of the Nation speech - and the death of Rod Oram, a much-admired journalist dedicated to coverage of business and climate change. Also: how many journalists are left in New Zealand - and the rights and wrongs of airing 'hot mic' comments.

Duration:00:28:47

Mediawatch for 17 March 2024

3/16/2024
What will government do about the great TV news meltdown?; Stuff deploys AI for DIY news.

Duration:00:33:49

Stuff deploys AI for DIY news

3/16/2024
Artificial intelligence tech threatens to take our eyeballs even further away from the outlets which produce news - but it’s also a tool they can use to make more of it. This week Stuff - which has warned AI could wreck the business of journalism - used Chat GPT to write a stories about readers' opinions. Mediawatch asks an unimpressed editor if we all just have to get used to this now.

Duration:00:14:47

Midweek Mediawatch - manic Monday for news & fake photo frenzy

3/13/2024
Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about a manic Monday afternoon of news - cricket, Oscars, terror in the skies . . . and the post-Cabinet media conference. Also: the royal photo fakery frenzy; political responses to the TV newspocalypse; US politics satirised and fact-checked by TikTok; the leap-year community's struggles.

Duration:00:24:06

Mediawatch for 10 March 2024

3/9/2024
TVNZ has proposed big cuts to news that could leave the country with only one daily TV news bulletin and almost no current affairs on TV within weeks.

Duration:00:37:43

Midweek Mediawatch - it's the end of the news as we know it?

3/6/2024
In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about job cuts looming at TVNZ as its crosstown rival Newshub faces a shut-down. Also: coverage of Chris Luxon's terrible, no-good week - and Heavy Metal Morning Report.

Duration:00:20:19

Mediawatch: Apocalypse now?

3/2/2024
For years news media bosses warned the creaking business model backing journalism would fail at a major local outlet. It finally happened this week when Newshub’s owners proposed scrapping it. Then TVNZ posted losses prompting warnings of more cuts to come there. Can TV broadcasters pull a crowd without news? And what might the so-far ambivalent government do?

Duration:00:40:25

Three no longer a hub for news

3/2/2024
Warner Bros. Discovery’s decision to shut down Newshub was met with mourning within the media - and also concern about what could replace it in the media ecosystem

Duration:00:08:12

TVNZ's losses point to media-wide strife

2/29/2024
Mediawatch: TVNZ’s latest losses signal likely cuts to come. But it’s the slump in income for the broadcaster that dominates free-to-air TV which will worry the entire media industry.

Duration:00:03:57

Midweek Mediawatch - Newshub's brutal 'proposal'

2/28/2024
Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talked to Emile Donovan about the sudden and startling news of Newshub’s impending demise in a ‘proposal’ from the global owner. Also: is it wrong for journalists to use ‘big tech’ tools to scrub the sound of real people from reports - or bum notes at the Superbowl?

Duration:00:25:14

Welfare and immigration set for a 'reset'

2/24/2024
The PM’s State of the Nation speech got the media’s attention when he said welfare needs reform. He didn't mention record-level immigration but that’s also been deemed unsustainable and set for a reset too. What did the media tell about these problems - and what’s at stake?

Duration:00:15:34

A lifeboat to keep news afloat?

2/24/2024
Last week the great and good of New Zealand’s news media urged MPs to back a law change to make Google and Facebook pay them for their news. They say the income could be critical to the survival of journalism here. But the lobby group campaigning for better public media says there’s a better way to ‘send a lifeboat’.

Duration:00:18:41

Mediawatch for 25 February 2024

2/24/2024
Government 'resets' immigration and welfare; another way to make Google and Facebook to pay for journalism; media milk Kiwi Swifties' stadium FOMO.

Duration:00:40:52

Milking Kiwi Swifties' FOMO

2/24/2024
As the biggest pop star on the planet packed out huge Australian arenas this week, the media here milked Kiwi Swifties’ anger over missing out. It also aired confusing blame-game claims about why Swift gave New Zealand a swerve in the first place - and where the big gigs might be held in future.

Duration:00:06:14

Midweek Mediawatch - A clash of polls

2/21/2024
In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the death of Efeso Collins, big conclusions drawn from conflicting polls - and the problems with an old media adage.

Duration:00:25:49

MPs urged to take sides in media vs big tech tussle

2/17/2024
Media bosses warned MPs this week journalism is in jeopardy here if they don't back a Bill making offshore tech giants pay for news carried on Facebook and Google. It's based on laws already in place in Australia and Canada. Mediawatch asks the ex-editor leading the publishers' pitch how it might work.

Duration:00:38:05

$500k Auckland pedestrian crossing costs quietly corrected

2/17/2024
A Herald headline this week said Auckland Transport was 'pushing on with $500,000 crossings'. The apparently outrageous expense was also aired on radio and in Parliament as evidence of the urgent need to reprioritise. But AT said the true cost was a fraction of what was reported.

Duration:00:09:08

Mediawatch for 18 February 2024

2/17/2024
Auckland's transport turmoil reports lack full facts; publishers pitch to Parliament to make Google and Facebook pay for their news.

Duration:00:36:33