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April 22, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content National Party response to lockdown extension, Simon Bridges’ leadership Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Simon Bridges fends off leadership coup rumours, says focus is on COVID-19 RNZ: Morning Report: Bridges defends criticism of lockdown extension ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 22 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/22/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-22-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 22 2020">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Analysis by Bryce Edwards How healthy is democracy at the moment in New Zealand? Criticisms are mounting about the state of the political system under the Coronavirus crisis, with complaints that things aren’t as democratic as they should be. I wrote for the Guardian last week about some of these political problems – see: New Zealand’s ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How healthy is our democracy under the Coronavirus crisis?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-how-healthy-is-our-democracy-under-the-coronavirus-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How healthy is our democracy under the Coronavirus crisis?">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Today’s cabinet decision Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Decision day dawns for PM Jacinda Ardern over Covid-19 lockdown John Armstrong (1News): Why New Zealand has to remain in lockdown Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Today cabinet decides on ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 20 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/20/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-20-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 20 2020">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
It was only a matter of time before politicians took a pay cut. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has done the right thing in announcing she will cut the pay of her own ministers and departmental chief executives – see Eleanor Ainge Roy’s Jacinda Ardern and ministers take pay cut in solidarity with those hit by ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A Powerful but tiny gesture from leaders under pressure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-a-powerful-but-tiny-gesture-from-leaders-under-pressure/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A Powerful but tiny gesture from leaders under pressure">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Lockdown, government Peter Dunne (Newsroom): End this Orwellian version of NZ John Edwards (Spinoff): Even in extraordinary times, the right to privacy remains Grant Duncan (The Conversation): New Zealand’s coronavirus elimination strategy has united ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 16 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-16-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 16 2020">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch The thin veneer of a seemingly robust New Zealand media was ripped off like a plaster on a scab in front of Parliament’s Epidemic Response Committee today exposing its frailties. The heads of all New Zealand’s media companies appeared via Zoom and all spoke of the ... <a title="NZ media chiefs warn desperate times ahead faced with advertising nadir" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/nz-media-chiefs-warn-desperate-times-ahead-faced-with-advertising-nadir/" aria-label="Read more about NZ media chiefs warn desperate times ahead faced with advertising nadir">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Desperate times call for desperate measures and so it is with journalism schools throughout the Pacific with each of them trying new and innovative methods in the age of Covid-19 coronavirus. Faced with the global pandemic, they are following an overarching dictum, safety of students first ... <a title="Desperate times unleash digital creativity, flexibility for j-schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/desperate-times-unleash-digital-creativity-flexibility-for-j-schools/" aria-label="Read more about Desperate times unleash digital creativity, flexibility for j-schools">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Public health strategy Virginia Fallon and Bridie Whitton (Stuff): Call for return to normal life puts tens of thousands at risk Derek Cheng (Herald): Cabinet urged not to play ‘Russian roulette’ with New ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 15 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-15-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 15 2020">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Tobias R. Keller and Rosalie Gillett of the Queensland University of Technology Even before the coronavirus arrived to turn life upside down and trigger a global infodemic, social media platforms were under growing pressure to curb the spread of misinformation. Last year, Facebook cofounder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg called for new rules ... <a title="Why is it so hard to stop the Covid-19 misinformation social media spread?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/14/why-is-it-so-hard-to-stop-the-covid-19-misinformation-social-media-spread/" aria-label="Read more about Why is it so hard to stop the Covid-19 misinformation social media spread?">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Government, parliament Andrea Vance (Stuff): How Jacinda Ardern is using soft propaganda to beat Covid-19 Graeme Edgeler (Democracy Project): On being sure of your legal footing Sam Hurley (Herald): Law Society calls for greater ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 14 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-14-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 14 2020">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea’s Police Minister Bryan Kramer has published an extraordinary attack on two leading journalists over their reporting of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, accusing them of “misrepresenting” a financial update this week and suggesting they ought to be sacked. He claimed in an Easter weekend posting on his Kramer Report – ... <a title="Police Minister Kramer blasts two journalists in virus reporting row" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/12/police-minister-kramer-blasts-two-journalists-in-virus-reporting-row/" aria-label="Read more about Police Minister Kramer blasts two journalists in virus reporting row">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2020
The Guardian’s Pacific Project disaster video. By the Pacific Project Tropical Cyclone Harold lashed the South Pacific island of Vanuatu, ripping off roofs and downing telecommunications, before moving towards Fiji and Tonga. The powerful cyclone made landfall on Monday in Sana province, an island north of Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila, with winds as high as ... <a title="Tropical Cyclone Harold: Aerial footage shows Vanuatu destruction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/09/tropical-cyclone-harold-aerial-footage-shows-vanuatu-destruction/" aria-label="Read more about Tropical Cyclone Harold: Aerial footage shows Vanuatu destruction">Read more</a>
