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MediaRoom column: Very few competitors, and certainly not the sensible ones, cheered the end of Today FM – because all commercial media are staring at the same 'great big wall' on advertising spend that hit its owner MediaWorks this year.

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Jackson’s Plan B for public media

Axing the proposed merger of TVNZ and RNZ saved the Government a significant amount of money but left it with the problems the merger was supposed to fix. Mark Jennings looks at Labour’s new slimmed down approach to public media.

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Ardern exits politics with climate rallying call

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has finished her parliamentary career with a rousing call for commitment on climate change.

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NZ prime minister Hipkins shrugs off climate criticism

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has made $NZ1.7 billion worth of savings by taking an axe to several of predecessor Jacinda Ardern's policies.

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Younger audiences slip away from local media

Research shows 15-24-year olds are switching off from TVNZ and RNZ and reaching for TikTok and YouTube. Can they be brought back?

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Yesterdaze: Belittling experiments in leadership

Cantakerous, cranky and communicatively challenged - our politicians turned out all varieties of sub-par this week. James Elliott breaks it down.

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‘Let them watch Netflix’ – what can be salvaged from the wreckage of the failed TVNZ-RNZ merger?

The government’s decision to abandon the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM) Bill came as no surprise after months of increasingly negative speculation. Officially, it stems from the prioritisation of “bread and butter issues” during a cost-of-living crisis, but it’s hard not to see this as a significant policy failure…

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PM axes Ardern's projects, takes wind out of Nats' sails

Hate speech, biofuels, the media merger and social insurance have been dumped in the worthy, but not important bin, after Chris Hipkins takes the axe to his predecessor's policies.

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RNZ the winner in merger cancellation

The state-owned radio broadcaster will keep its independence and get a cash injection after the Government scrapped the proposal to merge it with TVNZ

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TVNZ merger response raises eyebrows

MediaRoom column: On the eve of a Cabinet decision on the proposed public broadcasting merger, questions emerge over the engagement by TVNZ's chief executive of two former National government aides to change the narrative and push TVNZ's view about the Government's plan.

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Hipkins picks his team, turns his focus to policy purge

The easy part is over for Chris Hipkins in naming his new team, now the tough policy decisions lie ahead, writes political editor Jo Moir

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Hipkins needs a new plan for TVNZ and RNZ

A focus on “bread and butter” issues likely signals the end of the RNZ/TVNZ merger, writes Mark Jennings

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Media person of the year 2022

Our annual MediaRoom picks for the person who has stood out for outstanding achievements and leadership in journalism and the media business

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Merged TVNZ/RNZ a marriage made in heaven, not hell

Dr Peter Davis looks at whether the TVNZ/RNZ merger will rebalance our media eco-system - or is just an ideological project.

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Luxon's commitment to fund RNZ properly to 'do its job'

Christopher Luxon thinks the RNZ/TVNZ merger won’t go ahead but he’s committed under a National-led government to ensure RNZ is properly funded in the future

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The cycle of continuity and change will repeat if National takes power

Health and water reforms will remain but the TVNZ/RNZ merger will be the sacrificial lamb that shows National is different from Labour after all, says Peter Dunne

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Merging TVNZ and RNZ: some history

Critics of the current Government’s plan to merge TVNZ and RNZ might ponder what might have been in this country had wiser reorganisational choices been made decades ago, writes Bob Gregory as he recalls his time at the NZBC,

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Can the minister please explain?

National’s spokesperson on broadcasting, Melissa Lee, predictably called it a “train wreck” but Willie Jackson’s interview with TVNZ’s Jack Tame appeared to be another example of a bumbling government minister unable to clearly articulate government strategy.

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'That's on us too' - Ardern accepts blame for info vacuum on govt reform

Jacinda Ardern says the Three Waters debate has been muddied by a combination of things, and she accepts the Government has played a role in that.

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Ardern's Labour down again in NZ poll

Both Jacinda Ardern and Labour fell by one point as opposition National confirmed its place as New Zealand's most popular party in the latest political poll.

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Willie Jackson's bid to sell merger to TVNZ/RNZ

Willie Jackson is to meet with TVNZ staff on Friday morning and RNZ next week as the March 1 deadline draws closer for the two public media companies’ assets and staff merging into one entity.

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Labour's to-do list and the question of lasting reform

It's less than a year until the next election and Labour's still got a lot on its legislative agenda this term.

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The extra eyes missing from Labour's reform plans

Much has been written of the handbrake New Zealand First put on Labour last term, but as political editor Jo Moir writes, the Government’s newfound freedom is missing crucial oversight.

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The impossibility of ADHD

The case of the GP punished for throwing ADHD patients a lifeline has highlighted gaping holes in our system for those who are neurodivergent.

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One-fifth of Kiwis need disability access to television

It’s a job where knowledge of Tolkien character names may come in handy - but it's bringing 180,000 blind or low-vision Kiwis back into the cultural conversation.

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