RNZ: Mediawatch

A giant leap for marketing; extrordinary exposure for a major musical; New Zealand gets noticed in Frankfurt; the UK's front pages are startlingly sexist - is the story the same on ours?

For decades experts have studied the effects of crime, conflict and catastrophe on victims - and also on soldiers, paramedics and police officers. But not on so for those also often on the scene at disturbing events - journalists. Mediawatch reports from the first ever gathering devoted to the impact of trauma on New Zealand's journalists.

Broadcasters blurring the boundary between advertising and journalism; how our universities and polytechnics are engaging the media today - and could contribute more in the future.

This week the Mediawatch team looks at: the controversial publication of National Standards stats; an overseas investigation unreported here; TVNZ cuts another current affairs show; Paul Henry hassled by critics and; a paper hits a bum note.

A right royal row over private pictures; shots fired over the blurred boundary between old and new media; The ODT's editor on resisting reinvention; which paper had its eagle eye on the Russia's Tsar?

The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments and updates recent stories from the programme - with guest Alison McCullough. This month: The Herald's new format; flaky columns; Christchurch two years on; one small mistake by a man; the La Leche League hits back; chickens on the cover; bloggers vs. the mainstream; a shoutout for Stockholm; who first warned the Tsar?

The boss of the nation's biggest daily paper on its tabloid transition; a top lawyer calls for a rethink of rules allowing cameras into our courts; how a notorious nickname stuck to a controversial criminal; a sudden surge of media interest in chickens.

Mediawatch talks to some overseas experts about the ways 'new media' are now colliding with the old - TV, radio and newspapers - in the digital age. Fast-growing online outlets now deliver news quickly, cheaply and directly to people, wherever they are. But by speeding up the news, are they also undermining it? And should the likes of Google contribute more to the creation of the content that they make so freely available online? Also: some startling mistakes made in recent reports of the death of the world's best-known names, and newspapers having a makeover.

An outsider's view of the media response to disaster and recovery in Canterbury and Pike River; one year on from the death of the UK's top-selling tabloid, is the world better off without The News of the World?

A TV veteran tells Mediawatch about four decades in investigative journalism, and why he now fears for the future of it here. Mediawatch also looks at how a minister's move to bypass the media backfired, some rough numbers for our newspapers, and the revival of a long tradition of telling Russia's rulers where to get off.

The steroid scandal that turned silver into gold at the Olympics; a new proposal to persuade the public to pay for journalism - and the view of a veteran - and; the Aussie entrepreneur spending a small fortune fighting Rupert Murdoch's papers.

The media burst the bubble after Olympic setbacks; who is broadcasting what - and from where?; another ignored embargo; will the public pay for new journalism in New Zealand?

The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments, and updates recent stories from the programme. This month: the Scott Guy trial coverage and the 'court of public opinion'; the end of public service TV and the meaning of 'free to air'; international interest in marmite; publishing personal pictures without prior permission; Rio+20 ignored; coincidental commentary or sponsor's plug?; what's a whistleblower?; Kim Dotcom's public image.

Mediawatch looks at who was calling the shots in the coverage of the plan the remake the centre of Christchurch - and why one outlet's under fire for failing to play by the rules; what happened when the PM turned DJ on the radio again; and how one man's big bucks and small sums from citizens are paying for new journalism in Australia.

Mediawatch looks at new ways of paying for quality journalism overseas, and proposals to revamp a key tool for journalists here - the Official Informational Act. Also this week: why we'll be getting reduced rations of current affairs on prime time TV soon, and why is reporting the Olympic Games still mostly a man's game?