Public Relations

The Detail looks at how Auckland's mayor handled the flooding crisis, as another storm looms. Audio

An effort to shield the under-fire All Blacks coach from a media mauling last weekend fired up commentators already cranky about the high-handedness of rugby bosses. But given the intensity of some… Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

When someone screws up and it hits the headlines, what actually happens when PR experts are called in to help them fix it? Audio

Dominion Post editor Anna Fifield says after 20 years reporting offshore - she’s shocked at the “communications industrial complex” she says shields our government and public service from media… Audio

As election day creeps closer, the last week has seen more political scandals come to light, and politicians from both sides of the aisle handing in their resignations. Weekend panellists Linda Clark… Audio

Linda Clark and Richard Harman offer their thoughts on issues like euthanasia and cannabis, but primarily this week it's politics, and how the new-look National party is positioned with the New… Audio

The documentary film Influence lifts the lid on how one of the world’s biggest PR companies - Bell Pottinger - destroyed itself when its unethical conduct in South Africa was exposed. Mediawatch asks… Video, Audio

A media monitoring company reckons leaders who are ‘out there’ more in the media reap rewards when the news turns bad for them.  But would it be better for the rest of us if they stuck to their… Video, Audio

It's not news that people doing PR and communications for the state heavily outnumber the journalists who report on the agencies employing them. And journalists know most of those on 'the dark side'… Audio

The way lobbyists and PR people move in and out of political circles has created a problem for the media who use them to fill their programs, stories and websites more and more these days. One… Audio