New Zealand Herald

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately - back again for 2020. This week new guy Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about The Herald's hard line with Facebook followers, Stuff revealing a rogue in the… Audio

How we get around increasingly congested cities and towns has become a hot topic and paying for public transport is a an increasingly fraught political issue, especially as councils around the country… Audio

Media correspondent Gavin Ellis looks at how permanent name suppression is a fraudster's dream. Audio

For years, the country's top-selling paper talked about making online readers pay - just like subscribers to the printed paper. This week the New Zealand Herald finally did it. The ads they once… Audio

Tapping readers for revenue - the Herald puts up its paywall; NZ media freedom enters uncharted waters after Christchurch; slush and burn. Audio

The New Zealand Herald's publisher NZME has announced digital subscriptions will be available from next week. Online readers will have to pay $5 a week for everything the Herald has to offer. It's the… Audio

The Herald’s owner says the free ride will be over soon for those who like the best bits of its journalism. Its heavily-trailed online paywall will finally go up within weeks, but some important… Audio

How we get around our cities has suddenly flared up in our news. Even media colleagues are calling each other haters and zealots, and calling each other out for fake news. But is this just background… Audio

Petrol price rises have hogged the headlines this past week. Much coverage has been about what’s affordable in the short term, not what’s sustainable in the longer term. It often is when the price… Audio

Stories about plunging confidence among business leaders just keep on coming - along with economic data that shows no need for panic. Other surveys of opinion about business and the economy tell a… Audio

The death of TV broadcaster Greg Boyed last week sparked a flood of tributes in the media and many anguished articles on the scourge of suicide and depression. The media have been warned that intense… Audio

The New Zealand Herald has revealed that subsidising movies made in New Zealand has skyrocketed in spite of little agreement about whether it pays off. Showcasing New Zealand is one of the goals too… Video, Audio

Radio hosts know cyclists and cycle paths are a red rag to their frequently car-bound listeners. Mediawatch looks at how one broadcaster responded to research showing most Aucklanders support cycling… Audio

Odd yarns about dogs in the news lately - and a news presenter who slipped off the leash. Audio

Energetic editioraliser Mike Hosking angered nurses this week by inflating their employers' pay offer - just after telling the media off for "lapping up press releases." Audio

The reporter who won the big prize at last week's Voyager Media Awards says the biggest stories in the world these days are often cracked by reporters working across borders. He wants to put New… Audio

Good data journalism makes lots of important information easily understandable and it clarifies complicated issues for us. But visiting expert Alberto Cairo warns we must also beware of visualisations… Video, Audio

"To say I'm worried about the future of sports journalism is like Captain Smith saying he was worried about the wellbeing of the Titanic… after it struck the iceberg." A leading sports editor warns… Audio

New research concluding the lack of women in top jobs costs the whole country dearly got a lot of coverage this week - even in blank spaces in the Herald. Audio

Fairfax Media is planning to shrink its daily papers around the country to a tabloid - or ‘compact’ - size next year.  Why? And how will it change what’s on the pages? Mediawatch asks Fairfax Media… Audio