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Mary Tyler Moore's TV sidekick dies aged 80
31 Aug 2019Actress Valerie Harper, who won four Emmys playing budding feminist Rhoda Morgenstern on the 1970s TV series The Mary Tyler Moore Show and her own spinoff sitcom, has died aged 80.
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Political parties are targeting us with propaganda online
1 Sep 2019Mediawatch: Recent elections overseas were won by narrow margins amid claims voters were influenced by messages injected in their social media feeds from political parties. Is all this coming to an… Audio
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The Mandalorian: First look at Taika Waititi's Star Wars series
25 Aug 2019Disney has released the first footage of The Mandalorian, a live-action Star Wars series that includes the New Zealand director and actor Taika Waititi voicing a robot. Video
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TV watchdogs differ on Christchurch gunman’s footage
25 Aug 2019Mediawatch: The Broadcasting Standards Authority has sanctioned Sky TV for screening snippets of the gunman's video of the Christchurch mosque attacks in March. But other broadcasters escaped censure… Audio
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Big player potential: Support urged for booming gaming industry
19 Aug 2019New Zealand's interactive media and gaming industry grew 40 percent a year in the past six years, and could be worth $1 billion by 2024 if supported, a report says.
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Media's worldwide push for climate change coverage
18 Aug 2019Mediawatch: Last week the Sunday Star-Times ran an article asking the question: Is the New Zealand media eco-friendly? It was more an environmental stock-take of the media businesses themselves than… Audio
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Convergence: yesterday’s media buzzword is now the new normal
Mediawatch: Once upon a time our major media companies and telcos were none of each others' business. Now they are all up in each others' business because of 'convergence' driven by digital technology… Audio
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Still the right thing: Do the Right Thing at 30
6 Aug 2019Thirty years on, Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is as urgent as ever, says Dan Slevin.
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Preferred PM polling's proving pretty unpopular
Mediawatch: Broadcasters say their political polls aren't perfect but they do reveal significant swings of support. In that case, they ought to notice more and more people don't like being asked to… Audio
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Broadcaster watchdog weighs up our attitudes to nudity on screen
Mediawatch Back in the day, nudity on TV was rare and the isolated sightings were almost national events. There's plenty of it available on-demand and on any device these days, but does it do us harm? Audio
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Twitch Fortnite streamer Ninja switches to Microsoft's Mixer
2 Aug 2019Amazon's games streaming platform Twitch has lost one of its biggest stars to a rival site owned by Microsoft.
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Not funny: Watching Friends without canned laughter
28 Jul 2019Corny "dad jokes" actually become funnier when they are followed by recordings of laughter, researchers say. Video
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Climate scepticism boosted by broadcasters
28 Jul 2019Forty years ago this week a milestone meeting of scientists led to the first comprehensive report on climate change science. Forty years later, media outlets around the world - including Stuff - have… Audio
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Why you should like what Instagram is doing
26 Jul 2019The Detail - A seemingly innocuous move by social media platform Instagram of removing visible 'likes' could help lessen the pressure of those whose social media use is wrecking their mental health.
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World Cup coverage highlights off-pitch inequality
Mediawatch: The Black Caps are in the Cricket World Cup final this weekend in England a week after the Women's World Cup of football finished in France. Women were not left on the sidelines in the… Audio
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Former High Court judge wins defamation suit against Māori TV
23 Jul 2019Māori Television has apologised to the former High Court Judge and his wife for reporting false allegations about the pair in coverage of the 2015 Auckland District Māori Council elections.
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Instagram testing no 'likes' in NZ
18 Jul 2019The social media platform will test the removal of 'likes' from New Zealand-based users' content from today.
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Netflix drama finally removes controversial suicide scene
17 Jul 2019A controversial scene in Netflix drama 13 Reasons Why in which a teenage girl kills herself has been removed, two years after it first appeared.
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Stranger Things: Growing up in the 1980s
10 Jul 2019Review: Like the kids in Stranger Things, Nik Dirga was a gawky American 13-year-old in the summer of 1985, and writes that the hit Netflix show gets an awful lot of the era right. Video
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Peak bleak: How to survive TV's toughest times
1 Jul 2019Shuddering every time you turn on the telly? You're not the only one. Here's a guide to surviving TV's darkest days.
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'Shocked, disgusted, angry': Video features white men with faux moko
12 Jul 2019An online video showing a group of white men dressed as Māori and pretending to be descendants of a Waikato-Tainui sub-tribe has outraged members of the Māori community. Audio
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New features to tackle cyberbullying on Instagram
10 Jul 2019Instagram bullies are soon going to be asked to consider what they're saying before they post. Audio
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'Sustainability': Air NZ's reason for dumping newspapers questioned
Air New Zealand has faced criticism from news companies for its decision to stop stocking newspapers in Koru lounges.
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Mediawatch: Cancer campaign coverage puts heat on Pharmac
The pressure's on for consistent cancer care around the country. Experts say that will take more than just more money for medicines but that's become the focus of much of the coverage and comment in… Audio
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