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Wrongfully accused, wrongfully convicted and still waiting for justice

Comment: As the parent of children with brittle bone disease, former Race Relations and Human Rights Commissioner Joris de Bres became an advocate for a family torn apart by accusations of abuse.

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Clinging to hope when your world is kicked out from under you

Comment: What began as a grandmother's fight to help her daughter get back custody of her twins has become a case of medical negligence and broken systems. She tells Newsroom her story.

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Health NZ’s silence on child abuse misdiagnoses

For almost three years, Newsroom’s investigations team has been trying to get answers from Health NZ and ministers on what now appears to be a serious issue with the misdiagnosis of non-accidental injury in infants. Their questions have gone nowhere.

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What is going on at Starship’s child protection unit?

For decades, a small group of specialists at Starship Hospital’s child protection unit have played a central role in some of NZ’s most serious physical child abuse cases. What happens if those findings are wrong?

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Honoured again: Newsroom’s podcasts ‘The Detail’ and ‘Diagnosis of a Crime’

Newsroom podcasts won two sought-after awards at this week’s Radio and Podcast awards 2026

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Melanie Reid’s Diagnosis of a Crime named best NZ podcast

Newsroom Investigates' groundbreaking work examining medical findings in some child abuse cases takes out the major podcasting award at the national media awards

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Meghan Markle, Prince Harry Criticised New Royal Book, Says It's for 'Those Seeking Deranged Conspiracy and Melodrama'

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have formally denounced a new biography by Tom Bower, which makes several claims about the couple. The Sussexes challenge the book's credibility and intent.

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Escaping Utopia review – there’s so much terrible detail about this cult it barely fits into the show

Escapers from the Gloriavale sect open up about living in constant fear of damnation, its abuse of women – and a landmark court case brought by female ex-members

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The week in TV: Better Off Dead?; Bridgerton; The Gathering; The Big Cigar – review

Assisted dying is shockingly unpacked by Liz Carr; Nicola Coughlan moves centre stage in Netflix’s Regency romp; Skins meets Euphoria in a Liverpool psychodrama. Plus, the trouble with a ‘mostly true’ Black Panthers drama

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Tributes flow for ‘baby uplift’ midwife

'She saved me without ever knowing it.' Mourners say goodbye to the “quiet hero” who helped halt the draconian state uplift of newborn babies from their mothers.

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Hurricane Tim: Beating the odds

Watch: Newsroom's Melanie Reid followed Sir Tim Wallis over the course of six years in the 1990s to make a documentary on the deer industry pioneer and renowned collector of WWII fighter aircraft

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Sir Tim Wallis: A man of action

Sir Tim Wallis had an outsized impact on the lives of those around him. The deer industry pioneer and renowned collector of WWII fighter aircraft always thought big and inspired others to do the same.

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Queenstown cemetery buried

State of emergency will be in place for at least seven days after wettest 24 hours in nearly a quarter of a century, writes Bonnie Sumner

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The Week in Detail: From illegal fishing to the Rugby World Cup

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

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Quest for answers over three-year-old's death

Paul Jones hasn't let up in his drive to get answers over his three-year-old son's death – but in spite of multiple investigations, the truth appears to be no closer.

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Police announce review into handling of Gore toddler case

For the past three years Newsroom has been investigating the mysterious death of a Gore toddler who police ruled drowned accidentally. Now, they will review their handling of the case – which one expert describes as 'pathetic'.

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The Boy in the Water: Episode 4 out now

Listen now to the latest episode of ‘The Boy in the Water’, the number one new podcast about a small town harbouring a big mystery, from award-winning investigations editor Melanie Reid.

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Newsroom wins three national media awards

The annual awards for news journalism see Newsroom win three titles and the NZ Herald win website of the year for the fourth time in a row

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Newsroom podcast shortlisted for international award

The debut podcast produced by Newsroom Investigates has been selected as a finalist in two categories of a prestigious international award

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Piha resilient, but looking for answers

Newsroom’s investigations editor and Piha resident Melanie Reid on what the surf village is facing and what other devastated areas will soon be dealing with - if they aren’t already.

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Dramatic Piha landslide: 'We thought, yeah, we better go...'

Piha's Geoff Creighton was desperately sandbagging when he thought he heard thunder – and then the hill behind his home collapsed.

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Newsroom's true crime podcast #1 in NZ

'Peter Ellis, the Creche Case & Me' podcast, which takes you inside one of this country's most controversial legal cases, has taken the number one ranking on Apple in New Zealand.

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The Peter Ellis Podcast: The trial

Episode 5 of the Newsroom podcast Peter Ellis, the creche case and me is an up close and personal look at what remains one of New Zealand’s most notorious High Court trials.

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The Year In Detail 2022

Natural disasters, economic turmoil, and injustices in the justice system - The Detail recaps the big stories from this year.

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The series everyone is talking about

It remains one of NZ’s most shameful episodes. Now, Peter Ellis tells his own story about the state apparatus that convicted an innocent man - in an 8-part video series and a podcast presented by Melanie Reid.

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