Mediawatch (RNZ) (Media)
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- Host: Colin Peacock
- Mediawatch looks critically at the New Zealand media - television, radio, newspapers and magazines as well as the 'new' electronic media.
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- Genres: Media
- Location: Wellington, United States
- Language: English
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Mediawatch for 6 December 2009
Sun, Dec 6
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TV3 is 20 years old, but its boss for the last 10 years is stepping aside; top-class TV shows about the world around us are made here - but not many are screened; and reviving a survivor - the future of the tabloid Truth.
Mediawatch for 29 November 2009
Sun, Nov 29
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A view on the future of NZ newspapers from a man who knows their past; reporting Rotorua's airport controversey; 'newsmercials' and naming names in the news.
Mediawatch Extra for November 2009
Sat, Nov 28
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The online-only edition of Mediawatch, which takes in questions and comments from listeners and updates Mediawatch stories from recent weeks. This month: companies covering reporters' costs; taking offence at satire; jazzing up a newspaper; tough and tacky treatment for a luckless new movie.
Mediawatch for 22 November 2009
Sun, Nov 22
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This week the Mediawatch team look at: rugby's grip on the sports media - and soccer suddenly in the spotlight; claims that cash-strapped media companies are going soft on the rich and powerful plus; the response to the revelation that a prominent writer has borrowed bits of other authors' books.
Mediawatch for 15 November 2009
Sun, Nov 15
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Lack of scepticism in stories about stem cell treatments; the role of the media amid moves for more democracy in Tonga; more on businesses covering reporterscosts.
Mediawatch for 8 November 2009
Sun, Nov 8
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This week the Mediawatch team look at: assisted passage - companies encouraging media coverage by covering reporters' expenses; television news leaving little to the imagination and; the quest to get words right in the era of blogging, spellcheck and texting.
Mediawatch for 1 November 2009
Sun, Nov 1
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TVNZ promo poses political problems; taking offence at what's in the news; the difficulties of sending up sensitive issues; 3D returns to TV, Hollywood . . . and Stratford.
Mediawatch Extra 29 October 2009
Fri, Oct 30
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The online-only companion to Radio New Zealand's Mediawatch programme, taking in comments from listeners and updating recent stories from the show. This month: Samoa's tsunami; covering climate change and copied comment; the 'Mad Men' mocking us with their ads; and those silly schoolboys - fascist or just foolish?
Mediawatch for 11 October 2009
Sun, Oct 25
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This week the Mediawatch team: look at the prospect of wall-to-wall rugby on TV; they talk to radio boss Bill Francis on tough economic times and difficult personalities; examine belt tightening at the public broadcaster Radio NZ and; put scantily sourced stories about male vanity under scrutiny.
Mediawatch for 18 October 2009
Sun, Oct 18
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Broadcasting the World Cup becomes a political football; a charity unhappy with the income from a top TV show; does the media get it right reporting tragedies? and; is there ever a place for psychics in such sensitive stories?
Mediawatch for 11 October 2009
Sun, Oct 11
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Authentic voices reporting from Samoa, the future of free-to-air sport on television and Maori TV's bid for the World Cup gets political and satirical.
Mediawatch for 4 October 2009
Sun, Oct 4
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Tsunami strikes Samoa and Tonga - and mixed messages in the media about danger here; Mike King on confronting depression and addiction on the radio; the challenge of reporting climate change comprehensively.
Mediawatch for 27 September 2009
Sun, Sep 27
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Do farmers get a fair go in the media?; the challenge to fine photojournalism; twittering politicians and their imposters; overexposed and all over the news.
Mediawatch Extra 25 September 2009
Fri, Sep 25
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The online-only companion to Radio New Zealand's Mediawatch programme, taking in comments from listeners and updating recent stories from the show. In this edition: the 'going forward' backlash; Michael Laws - the human headline; and making news out of lost property.
Mediawatch for 20 September 2009
Sun, Sep 20
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The media's role reporting the recent riots in Dunedin; how science managers try to manage the media; steering the switchover to digital TV and mixed messages as new NZ films hit foreign screens.
Mediawatch for 13 September 2009
Sun, Sep 13
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This week the Mediawatch team look at: TV on the net - the broadband challenge for broadcasters; surprising sponsors for a Cook Strait crossing and; TV awards which fell somewhat flat.
Mediawatch for 6 September 2009
Sun, Sep 6
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The documentary China didn't want you to see; going back to going forward; gathering news or gathering evidence?
Mediawatch for 30 August 2009
Sun, Aug 30
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"Metro's editor on magazines in the recession; the war on 'going forward'; the outcome of moustache-gate.
Mediawatch Extra 28 August 2009
Fri, Aug 28
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The online-only companion to Radio New Zealand's Mediawatch programme, taking in comments from listeners and updating recent stories from the show. In this edition: bad language on air; the fallout from 'moustachegate'; media misunderstanding science; bad media ads.
Mediawatch for 23 August 2009
Sun, Aug 23
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Charites under the media microscope; a Kiwi in Murdoch's business news empire; are the odds against broadcasters when government departments complain?
Mediawatch
Sun, Aug 16
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The surge of media interest in Afghanistan; an award winning documentary judged unfair and unbalanced
Mediawatch for 9 August 2009
Sun, Aug 9
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Paula Bennett and the beneficiaries get a rough ride, media voyeurism and All Black anxiety.
Mediawatch for 2 August 2009
Sun, Aug 2
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MPs' expenses, Gordon Campbell's Werewolf and mixed messages about house prices.
Mediawatch Extra 31 July 2009
Fri, Jul 31
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The first ever edition of the online-only companion to Radio New Zealand's Mediawatch programme, taking in comments from listeners and updating recent stories from the show.
Mediawatch for 26 July 2009
Sun, Jul 26
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Too much information from the Weatherston trial; paying for the news online.
Mediawatch for 19 July 2009
Sun, Jul 19
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Dirty tricks in the UK; trial by jury; the bad old days for women in journalism.
Mediawatch for 12 July 2009
Sun, Jul 12
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Bain breaks his silence; business journalism thinning out; RIP King of Pop.
Mediawatch for 5 July 2009
Sun, Jul 5
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TVNZ and Sky sharing sport and channels, TV tennis tension and press probing of family affairs.
Mediawatch for 28 June 2009
Sun, Jun 28
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Iranians defy censorship to feed the media; Lotto fever; ready-made news and comment.
Mediawatch for 21 June 2009
Sun, Jun 21
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The campaign to get a sacked hack back; remembering an old-school journalist; geographically challened reporting.
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