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Newshub enters its final week
It's the end of an era as Newshub enters its final week. At 6pm on Friday, Mike McRoberts and Samantha Hayes will read the last ever Newshub bulletin. Warner Brothers Discovery announced it will close… Audio
The Bear season three: TV's greatest 'emotional villain' is born
In season three, Jeremy Allen White's Carmy has emergeg as a monsterous but sympatheric anti-hero we can't stop watching. Video
The beginning of the end
Part 2: It's Newshub's final week on air, and reporter Adam Hollingworth looks back at its battle to beat TVNZ. Where it succeeded and where it failed. Audio
Sunday News to close after six decades in print
Stuff has announced its Sunday News newspaper will wrap up at the end of July.
Married at First Sight NZ groom Andrew Jury dies
Andrew Jury, one of the original grooms from the first season of Married at First Sight NZ, has died.
Mediawatch for 30 June 2024 - the great distribution dilemma
While our government ponders policy to help news media companies cope with their crumbling business models, millions of us get our news first from Facebook, Google and even TikTok. It’s the same in… Audio
Lisa Blair: 'I only have to think about eat, sleep, sail'
Self-confidence is the most important asset when you're alone on treacherous seas, says world-record-holding solo sailor Lisa Blair. In May 2022, she became the fastest person in the world to… Video, Audio
The end of an era for New Zealand news
Part 1: As Newshub enters its final week, reporter Adam Hollingworth talks to current and former staff about the news division's early days and key events in its 35-year history. Audio
Who is Julian Assange and what exactly did he do?
Julian Assange has been convicted under the US Espionage Act - but what for? Here's a recap.
MacGyver's Laser
MacGyver was an 80s icon, with his mullet and ability to turn anything into a tool to save the day. Karen Thorn looks at one episode where the action hero turns some historical artifacts into a laser.
…'Shame, shame' - Golriz Ghahraman speaks in first interview
In her first in-depth interview after her arrest for shoplifting, she tells John Campbell it was an act of "self-sabotage."
'Matariki means being on our whenua'
There was only one place that an RNZ presenter wanted to be this Matariki: her hometown Whāingaroa Raglan.
Government cash for New Zealand's struggling gaming sector
Why the most profitable sector of the entertainment industry will get handouts from the government. Audio
Inside court, Assange had one last act of defiance against US legal system
Julian Assange is a free man after pleading guilty to one charge of espionage in a federal US court as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.
Midweek Mediawatch - a PM forced to dish his own plaudits
In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the prime minister becoming his own hype man, a strange malfunction in RNZ's push notifications, and a grab… Audio
Julian Assange pleads guilty in Saipan
After a 14 year legal battle, Julian Assange is expetected to return to his homeland Australia a free man today. He's pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate national… Audio
25 Mark Crysell | A Stopover in North Korea
With decades of experience as one of New Zealand’s most prominent television journalists, Mark Crysell recounts gaining unprecedented access to follow a set of unlikely New Zealanders into North… Audio
Stuff pulls plug on Northland community newspapers
The Northern News and The Whangārei Leader will cease publication this week, along with a weekly property lift-out.
France calls out fake news amid unrest in New Caledonia
France calls out fake news in light of ongoing unrest in New Caledonia. Audio
Aotearoa's first historical feature film in te reo, from a Māori lens
After years of development and funding rejections, Ka Whawhai Tonu hits cinemas this weekend
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