RNZ: Mediawatch

Radio New Zealand

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

  • 23 minutes 58 seconds
    Hikoi hits the road, news cuts, foreign football flashpoint
    Midweek - Hikoi hits the road; Seymour vs TVNZ; TV news cuts latest and how sketchy reports of a foreign football flashpoint sparked a diplomatic incident.
    13 November 2024, 9:00 am
  • 34 minutes 15 seconds
    Trump triumph and the media message, Australia & Malaysia rein in social media
    “It’s their media world now. We just live in it” - what news media are taking away from the Trump triumph; Media message from Trump’s triumph, how Australia and Malaysia are making social media accountable for the content they carry
    9 November 2024, 8:00 pm
  • 30 minutes 28 seconds
    Midweek: He's back
    Midweek: the epic media coverage of an epic US election that's put Trump back in charge. Also - more grim news from TVNZ; and warnings from Crux and NZ Geographic
    6 November 2024, 7:09 am
  • 43 minutes 2 seconds
    Stuff boss joins ginger group, NZ Geographic’s bold survival strategy
    Could the boss of the country’s biggest news publisher joining a local ginger group alongside political figures compromise her own company's coverage in the capital? Also: award-winning NZ Geographic adopts maximum transparency to secure its survival
    2 November 2024, 8:00 pm
  • 24 minutes 36 seconds
    Hitting the ground reckoning in the US, a backtrack and some u-turns
    Midweek: Kiwi journalists in the US ramp up election reflections - and some politicians here too. US papers cop it for u-turns on backing Harris; TVNZ backtracks on its 1 News website - and Colin meets football elite (sort of . . . )
    30 October 2024, 9:50 am
  • 34 minutes 49 seconds
    A look ahead to the US election & a look back at ours
    A look at how US media have coped with the controversial campaign for the upcoming election there - and we look back at how our media fared covering the election here one year ago.
    26 October 2024, 8:00 pm
  • 26 minutes 41 seconds
    Midweek: Sweating the small stuff
    Midweek - fallout from RNZ's scrapped Anika Moa podcast featuring former Labour MP Kiri Allan, intervention in the WCC, the lack of excitement about the America's Cup win, and Health NZ’s $9200 on canapés
    22 October 2024, 9:58 pm
  • 42 minutes 42 seconds
    WCC frenzy, dodging the news, scam ads scandal
    Coverage of capital’s troubled city council - and claims the government could intervene. Also: news publishers respond to a survey showing more Kiwis dodging their news - and a surge in social media scam posts co-opting big names in news media.
    19 October 2024, 8:00 pm
  • 24 minutes 6 seconds
    The govt turns 1, RNZ's web surge, RIP BBC Hardtalk
    Midweek - The government turns 1 (or does it?), a 'Chris-tastrophic' political poll (or was it), TVNZ news not on TV, RIP BBC Hardtalk.
    16 October 2024, 8:55 am
  • 32 minutes 21 seconds
    Online NZ news on the outer at TVNZ and Google
    TVNZ’s signaled more cost-saving cuts and started by scrapping its online news site next year. Meanwhile Google’s threatening to cut ties with local news altogther. What’s going on?
    12 October 2024, 8:00 pm
  • 25 minutes 24 seconds
    Midweek: Cuts, checks & a rude front page
    TVNZ's plans to axe its news website, ministerial fact-checking from Q+A - and a rude front page from The Press.
    9 October 2024, 7:36 am
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