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May 23, 2025
We have been handed a long and protracted recession with few signs of growth and prosperity. Budget 2025 signals more of the same, writes Susan St John. ANALYSIS: By Susan St John With the coalition government’s second Budget being unveiled, we should question where New Zealand is heading. The 2024 Budget laid out the strategy. ... <a title="Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/govt-should-defuse-nzs-social-timebomb-but-wont/" aria-label="Read more about Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2024
By Giles Dexter, RNZ political reporter An investigative journalist who was barred from attending New Zealand’s national apology to survivors of abuse in care has now been granted accreditation. Parliament’s Speaker has now granted temporary Press Gallery accreditation to journalist Aaron Smale for tomorrow’s apology for abuse in care. He must, however, be accompanied by ... <a title="NZ Speaker reverses journalist bar from abuse apology at Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/11/nz-speaker-reverses-journalist-bar-from-abuse-apology-at-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Speaker reverses journalist bar from abuse apology at Parliament">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Newshub, one of the key media companies in Aotearoa New Zealand, is to close its newsroom on June 30, reports RNZ News. Staff were told of the closure at an emergency meeting today. Newshub is owned by US-based global entertainment giant Warner Bros Discovery which also owns Eden, Rush, HGTV and Bravo. ... <a title="NZ media people react with ‘shock’ over plan to close Newshub in June" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/nz-media-people-react-with-shock-over-plan-to-close-newshub-in-june/" aria-label="Read more about NZ media people react with ‘shock’ over plan to close Newshub in June">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2023
Axing the proposed merger of TVNZ and RNZ saved the New Zealand government a significant amount of money but left it with the problems the merger was supposed to fix. Newsroom co-editor Mark Jennings looks at Labour’s new slimmed down approach to public media. ANALYSIS: By Mark Jennings Until weeks ago, the future of Aotearoa ... <a title="Jackson’s Plan B for public media may prioritise Māori and Pacific coverage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/13/jacksons-plan-b-for-public-media-may-prioritise-maori-and-pacific-coverage/" aria-label="Read more about Jackson’s Plan B for public media may prioritise Māori and Pacific coverage">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2023
RNZ News The Mediaworks’ radio station Today FM abandoned scheduling today when presenters broke from programming to question the future of their employer. Broadcasters told their audience they were going off air and had been instructed to play music. Today FM hosts Duncan Garner and Tova O’Brien told listeners before 9am the station and staff ... <a title="Today FM hosts abruptly taken off air and told ‘play music’ in radio shock" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/30/today-fm-hosts-abruptly-taken-off-air-and-told-play-music-in-radio-shock/" aria-label="Read more about Today FM hosts abruptly taken off air and told ‘play music’ in radio shock">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2022
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer Covid has now killed around 1700 people in New Zealand, but much of our news reporting and commentary has focused on how we’re moving on from the pandemic. Why is there such a mismatch between that media coverage, and the reality of a virus that’s inflicting more suffering and death than ever before? ... <a title="Sick and tired of the sickness – some media try to downplay the pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/18/sick-and-tired-of-the-sickness-some-media-try-to-downplay-the-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Sick and tired of the sickness – some media try to downplay the pandemic">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis, Knightly Views columnist Sometime this week Newsroom co-editor Mark Jennings is due to be interviewed under caution by the New Zealand police because he kicked the hornet’s nest. The particular hornet’s nest he disturbed was Oranga Tamariki, a state agency, and the reason it was given a boot was a now-discredited ... <a title="The man who kicked the hornet’s nest – focus on the Newsroom police probe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/the-man-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest-focus-on-the-newsroom-police-probe/" aria-label="Read more about The man who kicked the hornet’s nest – focus on the Newsroom police probe">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2019
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch While Pacific countries have got off rather lightly in a major global media freedom report last month with most named countries apparently “improving”, the reality is that politicians are becoming more intolerant and belligerent towards news media and information “black holes” are growing. The Pacific is at ... <a title="Pacific media freedom and news ‘ black holes’ worsen for World Press Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/03/pacific-media-freedom-and-news-black-holes-worsen-for-world-press-day/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific media freedom and news ‘ black holes’ worsen for World Press Day">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2019
Malolo Island … Fiji officials had been given drone footage and photographs of the ongoing destruction in breach of the environmental and planning approvals but nothing was done. Image: FBC News By RNZ Pacific Fiji’s opposition has called for a full investigation by an impartial committee into allegations of collusion by government officials in the ... <a title="Fiji opposition seeks Malolo damage probe, criticises local media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/16/fiji-opposition-seeks-malolo-damage-probe-criticises-local-media/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji opposition seeks Malolo damage probe, criticises local media">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2019
Newsroom co-editor Mark Jennings talks to Fiji Times reporter Arieta Vakasukawaqa after being released today. Image: Fiji Times screenshot/PMC By RNZ News Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has apologised to three New Zealand journalists detained overnight in Suva by a “group of rogue officers” Newsroom co-editor Mark Jennings, investigations editor Melanie Reid and cameraman Hayden ... <a title="Fiji PM apologises to NZ journalists detained over Malolo probe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/04/fiji-pm-apologises-to-nz-journalists-detained-over-malolo-probe/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji PM apologises to NZ journalists detained over Malolo probe">Read more</a>
