Anke Richter
Risk taker: Anke Richter
Author, reporter and cult researcher, Anke Richter, is involved in the planning of Decult 2024, New Zealand's first conference dedicated to tackling the harm cults cause. Audio
How to not join a cult
Anke Richter is an expert on cults and how they form. Over the summer she's holding seminars at music festivals to warn people about how these groups start and the warning signs. She talks to Jesse. Audio
Anke Richter: delving into the world of cults and control
A chance meeting with a former resident of Bert Potter's Centrepoint community started journalist Anke Richter on what became a decade-long deep dive into groups that exert high levels of control on… Audio
Covid-19: Overseas media report misinformation about NZ
After at first hailing New Zealand's Covid-19 response, some overseas media are now wrongly reporting - with some glee - that the government is admitting the elimination strategy has failed.
A German… Audio
The unintended role of alternative music festivals
Alternative festivals have unwittingly become a platform for conspiracy theorists and medical misinformation. Journalist Anke Richter has been looking into the issue. Audio
International cult conference this week in Manchester
Cults and mysterious new-age movements seem to be popping up all over the place, so it seems appropriate that they're the focus of a conference this week in Manchester Audio
Christchurch correspondent confronts Daily Mail over online appropriation
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 Zealand-based… Audio
Christchurch correspondent confronts Daily Mail over online appropriation
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 Zealand-based…
AudioWomen being drawn into secretive gifting Circles
Described as a support group of like-minded, usually spiritual individuals, the catch of the Circle groups is a $7,000 joining fee. The women are told, it will grow into eight times that amount as the… Audio