RNZ: Mediawatch

Are modern Mad Men getting too creative?; Pundits aplenty and overwrought opinions on Brexit - but too few facts, and; Scandinavian skewering of English football failure.

Mike Hosking's opinionated style on TV One has sparked a backlash which echoes past controversies at TVNZ. But the state-owned broadcaster and sponsors aren't bothered.

A former owner of the New Zealand Herald recently made news after failing to place an ad in two of Australia's leading newspapers. A Wellington magazine attracted the wrath of readers after accepting an anti-abortion ad. What are the rights and wrongs of publishing controversial advertisements?

Editors are usually keen on a story if there’s an All Black in it. But sometimes the story is really about the big brands the boys in black are supporting.

Backlash against a popular but polarising presenter; All Blacks and their endorsements in the news; freedom of speech = freedom to advertise? Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.

New Zealand should copy Australia and make "sport of national significance" available on TV for free, New Zealand First's Winston Peters says. Is it an idea whose time has come - or an idea that's now out of time across the ditch?

Sky TV wants to merge with giant telco Vodafone. Mediawatch asks Sky's long-serving leader if today's broadcasters are destined to end up as divisions of big telecommunications companies. 

Sky TV's long-serving boss talks to Mediawatch about the proposed merger with Vodafone - and broadcasters becoming departments of big telcos.

A rare case of a TV critic getting an almost instant response from a programme she criticised - but not one she would have expected.

The headlines didn't match the facts in a recent UK story about New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy

New Zealand's two biggest news publishers want to merge and they have submitted their application for the competition watchdog's approval. Mediawatch looks at the case they have put forward. 

Public interest in TV presenters is nothing new, but are the media too interested in what their own personalities are up to these days?

A New Zealand Herald campaign on family violence was overshadowed when its Sunday edition published a confessional piece by broadcaster Tony Veitch.

First a top presenter left, then the top executive - just after he launched a new TV channel. What's next at MediaWorks and do recent events prove media people should lead media companies?

Conscientious readers should recycle their old newspapers, but the papers shouldn’t be be recycling their old stories.