Colin Peacock

Mediawatch's mash-up of 2022 in review; reversal of fortunes for Silicon Valley moguls in the media. Audio

Mediawatch says goodbye  - and good riddance - to 2022 in the media.  Audio

Midweek Mediawatch - Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about the government’s media merger under the spotlight again - along with top brass of TVNZ and RNZ. Also: the death of two much-admired… Audio

Why has our biggest and only truly national news publisher Stuff just rejigged its regional reporting to have fewer reporters in its local newsrooms - and none at all in some at certain times of the… Audio

The PM’s hints this week reforms will be pared back in 2023  - and an untidy interview by the broadcasting minister - added to skepticism about the government’s public media plan. But while the media… Audio

American newspaper editor turned academic Kenton Bird traveled this country in 2010 to see if the ‘news deserts’ caused by newspaper closures in the US could happen here. 12 years on, he’s back - and… Audio

The Government is proposing a law to force Google and Meta to pay for New Zealand news content. 

The deal could provide an extra $30 million to $50 million dollars for local journalism. 

Several… Audio

For more than 30 years the nation's independent producers have been able to bid for money from the public purse to make programmes via New Zealand on Air. But from next year, the new public media… Audio

Handling awkward questions; programme-makers anxious about public media project; why Stuff journalists walked off the job. Audio