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March 20, 2024
RNZ News New Zealand’s media and communications minister is defending pulling out of pre-booked interviews about her portfolio, saying they would have been “boring” for the interviewers. Last week, Media Minister Melissa Lee cancelled interviews with NZME’s Media Insider and RNZ’s Mediawatch, despite initially agreeing to do them. It is a tumultuous time for media, ... <a title="NZ media minister Melissa Lee says interviews would have been ‘boring’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/nz-media-minister-melissa-lee-says-interviews-would-have-been-boring/" aria-label="Read more about NZ media minister Melissa Lee says interviews would have been ‘boring’">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist Sexual harassment of women journalists continues to be a major problem in Fiji journalism and “issues of power lie at the heart of this”, new research has revealed. The study, published in Journalism Practice by researchers from the University of Vienna and the University ... <a title="Sexual harassment of Fiji’s women journalists ‘concerningly widespread’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/sexual-harassment-of-fijis-women-journalists-concerningly-widespread/" aria-label="Read more about Sexual harassment of Fiji’s women journalists ‘concerningly widespread’">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Scanlan, Lecturer, Edith Cowan University Google DeepMind Last Sunday, Liverpool faced Manchester United in the quarter finals of the FA Cup – and in the final minute of extra time, with the score tied at three-all, Liverpool had the crucial opportunity of a corner kick. A ... <a title="Can AI improve football teams’ success from corner kicks? Liverpool and others are betting it can" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/can-ai-improve-football-teams-success-from-corner-kicks-liverpool-and-others-are-betting-it-can-225894/" aria-label="Read more about Can AI improve football teams’ success from corner kicks? Liverpool and others are betting it can">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Flood, Professor of Sociology, Queensland University of Technology Shutterstock Four in five young men and two in three young women have been exposed to pornography by the time they turn 20, according to the first nationally representative survey on this issue in Australia. Boys and young ... <a title="By the time they are 20, more than four in five men and two in three women have been exposed to pornography: new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/by-the-time-they-are-20-more-than-four-in-five-men-and-two-in-three-women-have-been-exposed-to-pornography-new-research-225573/" aria-label="Read more about By the time they are 20, more than four in five men and two in three women have been exposed to pornography: new research">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Davison, Adjunct professor, Health & Ageing Research Group, Swinburne University of Technology sasirin pamai/Shutterstock While many people maintain positive emotional wellbeing as they age, around half of older Australians living in residential aged care have significant levels of depression. Symptoms such as low mood, lack of ... <a title="Half of Australians in aged care have depression. Psychological therapy could help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/half-of-australians-in-aged-care-have-depression-psychological-therapy-could-help-223544/" aria-label="Read more about Half of Australians in aged care have depression. Psychological therapy could help">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nik Callow, Associate Professor – Geography, The University of Western Australia Nik Callow, Author provided In the 1890s, railway engineers noticed river water used by steam locomotives started to become salty when surrounding land was cleared for agriculture. Over the next decades, the problem worsened. In 1917, ... <a title="Even far from the ocean, Australia’s drylands are riddled with salty groundwater. What can land managers do?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/even-far-from-the-ocean-australias-drylands-are-riddled-with-salty-groundwater-what-can-land-managers-do-225277/" aria-label="Read more about Even far from the ocean, Australia’s drylands are riddled with salty groundwater. What can land managers do?">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
By Melyne Baroi in Port Moresby A senior National Court judge in Papua New Guinea has dismissed an expatriate prisoner’s request to have his sentence suspended due to poor health. Judge Panuel Mogish said the court was interested in maintaining a standard that was equal to both non-citizens and citizens of Papua New Guinea. “Suspension ... <a title="PNG judge says ‘no double standards’ – expat prisoners must do their time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/png-judge-says-no-double-standards-expat-prisoners-must-do-their-time/" aria-label="Read more about PNG judge says ‘no double standards’ – expat prisoners must do their time">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Earthwise hosts Lois and Martin Griffiths. Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths on Plains FM 96.9 community radio talk to Dr David Robie, a New Zealand author, independent journalist and media educator with a passion for the Asia-Pacific region. David talks about the struggle to raise awareness of critical Pacific issues such ... <a title="Earthwise talks to David Robie on Pacific issues and news media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/19/earthwise-talks-to-david-robie-on-pacific-issues-and-news-media/" aria-label="Read more about Earthwise talks to David Robie on Pacific issues and news media">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Ismail al-Ghoul, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent who was held for 12 hours at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, says Israeli forces rounded up Palestinian journalists at the facility and made them kneel on the ground for hours, while naked and blindfolded. “The occupation forces handcuffed and blindfolded us for about 12 hours from ... <a title="Israeli troops seize, blindfold naked journalists in bid to ‘silence’ Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/19/israeli-troops-seize-blindfold-naked-journalists-in-bid-to-silence-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli troops seize, blindfold naked journalists in bid to ‘silence’ Gaza">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute chinasong, Shutterstock Electricity customers in four Australian states can breathe a sigh of relief. After two years in a row of 20% price increases, power prices have finally stabilised. In many places they’re going down. The good news is contained ... <a title="Finally, good news for power bills: energy regulator promises small savings for most customers on the ‘default market offer’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/19/finally-good-news-for-power-bills-energy-regulator-promises-small-savings-for-most-customers-on-the-default-market-offer-226020/" aria-label="Read more about Finally, good news for power bills: energy regulator promises small savings for most customers on the ‘default market offer’">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney kitzcorner/Shutterstock The assertion from Queensland’s chief health officer John Gerrard that it’s time to stop using the term ... <a title="Why scrapping the term ‘long COVID’ would be harmful for people with the condition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/19/why-scrapping-the-term-long-covid-would-be-harmful-for-people-with-the-condition-225880/" aria-label="Read more about Why scrapping the term ‘long COVID’ would be harmful for people with the condition">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock Why are musicians so keen to get played on the radio? It can’t be because of the money. In Australia they are paid at rates so low they come close to making streaming services ... <a title="What’ll happen when Facebook stops paying for news? Here’s what happened when radio stopped paying for music" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/19/whatll-happen-when-facebook-stops-paying-for-news-heres-what-happened-when-radio-stopped-paying-for-music-226013/" aria-label="Read more about What’ll happen when Facebook stops paying for news? Here’s what happened when radio stopped paying for music">Read more</a>
