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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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Facebook to give data on hate speech suspects to French courts
26 Jun 2019In a world first, Facebook has agreed to hand over the identification data of French users suspected of hate speech on its platform to judges.
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Writers worried they won't get paid under new copyright law
28 Jun 2019Authors and publishers are concerned a bill that makes it easier for disabled people to access their work will mean they won't end up getting paid for it.
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Rhema's LPs sale: Jesus 'is a Spotify user now'
28 Jun 2019A Christian radio station is reluctantly selling off its 7000-strong vinyl collection but hopes it will be enjoyed by people who will treasure the LPs.
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ABC demands files' return in legal bid over police raid
24 Jun 2019Australian national broadcaster ABC has mounted a legal challenge against a police warrant served on it and is demanding the return of files seized during a raid earlier this month.
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New technology gives wing to analysis of bird population
23 Jun 2019New Zealand's bird population is being discovered and heard more easily thanks to 21st century technology.
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Blast from the past: Radio Rhema selling old LPs
23 Jun 2019Christian broadcaster Radio Rhema is selling its entire record collection, which has been built up over 40 years.
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Offsetting our indulgences
23 Jun 2019Mediawatch: Flygskam is rapidly replacing hygge as the media's favourite Scandinavian word. But whereas hygge describes the Danish concept of feeling good due to simple pleasures, the Swedish word… Audio
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Confronting an online clickbait copy machine
Mediawatch: The Mail Online is one of the world's most popular websites - partly because it recycles the online journalism of other outlets as clickbait. You'll never believe what happened when New… Audio
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Leaving Country Life to return to the country life
Saturday Morning: Hamilton-based Susan Murray has just retired after 21 years of co-hosting RNZ show Country Life. Audio
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Opinion: Aus law offers little protection from raids on media
9 Jun 2019Australia lacks laws that could have stopped police at the door of the ABC's offices, a raid that shows again why we as citizens must voice our protest at such actions, writes Gavin Ellis.
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Public media funding policy back to square one?
Labour promised big boosts to public broadcasting but last week's Budget offered only stop-gap increases "pending major policy decisions". Mediawatch questions the Broadcasting Minister. Audio
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Media reports' toxic side effects
Mediawatch: A recent academic study has found that media reports were the main cause of an increase in people experiencing adverse side effects following a Pharmac switch from a branded… Audio
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Hacked off: Only option for clarity on Budget breach is to wait
29 May 2019Opinion - Hacking comes in many forms, explains Paul Brislen, but clarity on whether Treasury was compromised from without or within will take time.
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Huawei signs deal with Russian telecoms firm to develop 5G
7 Jun 2019Huawei has signed a deal with Russian telecoms firm MTS to develop 5G technology in that country.
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