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March 14, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis New Zealand-based Canadian billionaire James Grenon owes the people of this country an immediate explanation of his intentions regarding media conglomerate NZME. This cannot wait until a shareholders’ meeting at the end of April. Is his investment in the owner of The New Zealand Herald and NewstalkZB nothing more than a ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: Canadian billionaire must explain his designs on NZME – now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/14/gavin-ellis-canadian-billionaire-must-explain-his-designs-on-nzme-now/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: Canadian billionaire must explain his designs on NZME – now">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2024
Democracy Now! This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I am Amy Goodman, with Juan González: The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post newspapers are facing mounting backlash after the papers’ publishers announced no presidential endorsements would be made this year. The LA Times is owned by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, and The ... <a title="US elections: Editorial writers at LA Times, Washington Post resign after billionaire owners block Kamala Harris endorsements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/30/us-elections-editorial-writers-at-la-times-washington-post-resign-after-billionaire-owners-block-kamala-harris-endorsements/" aria-label="Read more about US elections: Editorial writers at LA Times, Washington Post resign after billionaire owners block Kamala Harris endorsements">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Dr Gavin Ellis Integrity is the most valued element of a news organisation’s reputation. Without it, it cannot expect its audience to lend credence to what it publishes or broadcasts. So, The New Zealand Herald has dealt itself an awful blow. Its admission that ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: AI-created editorials: What in HAL’s name was the Herald thinking?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/06/gavin-ellis-ai-created-editorials-what-in-hals-name-was-the-herald-thinking/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: AI-created editorials: What in HAL’s name was the Herald thinking?">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
RNZ News Media publisher NZME has come under fire for admitting it used artificial intelligence to create editorials that ran in the Weekend Herald and other publications, with a media commentator saying it “can only damage trust”. RNZ’s Mediawatch revealed late yesterday that NZME had used AI to write an editorial about “Who the All ... <a title="NZME cops criticism after using AI to write rugby editorial" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/nzme-cops-criticism-after-using-ai-to-write-rugby-editorial/" aria-label="Read more about NZME cops criticism after using AI to write rugby editorial">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Stuff, New Zealand’s biggest independently owned news business, today announced it will stop sharing content to X (formerly Twitter), effective immediately. A media statement said that decision followed Stuff’s increasing concerns about the volume of mis- and disinformation being shared, and the “damaging behaviour being exhibited on and enabled by the platform”. ... <a title="NZ’s Stuff media group quits X (Twitter) over ‘disinformation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/13/nzs-stuff-media-group-quits-x-twitter-over-disinformation/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Stuff media group quits X (Twitter) over ‘disinformation’">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2023
RNZ News RNZ has appointed a group of experts to carry out an investigation over how pro-Russian edits were inserted into international stories online. An RNZ digital journalist has been placed on leave after it came to light he had changed news agency stories on the war in Ukraine. RNZ has since been auditing hundreds ... <a title="RNZ appoints panel to investigate inappropriate editing of online stories" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/14/rnz-appoints-panel-to-investigate-inappropriate-editing-of-online-stories/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ appoints panel to investigate inappropriate editing of online stories">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2023
RNZ News The RNZ board is meeting tonight to begin setting up an independent review on how pro-Russian sentiment was inserted into a number of its online stories. An RNZ digital journalist has been placed on leave after it came to light he had changed copy from news agency Reuters on the war in Ukraine ... <a title="RNZ board to begin setting up independent review of pro-Russia edits to stories" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/rnz-board-to-begin-setting-up-independent-review-of-pro-russia-edits-to-stories/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ board to begin setting up independent review of pro-Russia edits to stories">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
RNZ News A Ukrainian man who complained about an RNZ story last year having Russian propaganda says his concerns are only now being noticed. It comes after the revelation a staff member altered Reuters copy to include pro-Russian sentiment. Since Friday, 250 articles published on RNZ back to January last year have been audited. Of ... <a title="‘We are in the war’: Ukrainian man says RNZ altered news stories must be taken seriously" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/we-are-in-the-war-ukrainian-man-says-rnz-altered-news-stories-must-be-taken-seriously/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We are in the war’: Ukrainian man says RNZ altered news stories must be taken seriously">Read more</a>
