Media Releases

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  • Being prepared – RNZ introduces new Emergency Planning Manager role

    RNZ has established a new role dedicated to ensuring RNZ is prepared for emergency events and to deliver emergency broadcasts. 

    Released 1:37 pm on 12 March 2024
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  • New from Kirsty Johnston. Nellie’s Baby: An asylum, an adoption, and a search for the truth

    Sarah is born in a psychiatric hospital, taken by the state and adopted to a new family in secret. By the time she tracks her birth mother down, it is too late: Nellie has died in suspicious circumstances, and Sarah is left with nothing but questions. 

    Released 10:15 am on 11 March 2024
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  • High Profile Business and Personal Finance Journalist Susan Edmunds Joins RNZ

    A true love for helping people understand their finances and providing information that is accessible without being condescending is what drives RNZ’s new Money Correspondent, financial journalist Susan Edmunds.  

     

    Released 2:41 pm on 4 March 2024
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  • New podcast: Voice of Tangaroa

    What do we really know about our oceans? Ninety-three percent of New Zealand's territory is salt water. Eighty percent of our biodiversity is in our seas. And yet the ocean is mostly out of sight, out of mind – we understand little about our big blue backyard.

    Released 9:24 am on 23 February 2024
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  • RNZ and Mediaworks to collaborate

    A content sharing agreement between RNZ and MediaWorks comes into effect this week, with RNZ news stories available to run on MediaWorks radio stations and MediaWorks sports content soon to be available for use on RNZ’s channels.   

    Released 3:00 pm on 21 February 2024
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  • Anika Moa gets personal in her new podcast

    Beloved musician and broadcaster Anika Moa finally has her own podcast, It’s Personal with Anika Moa. Across 12 episodes she speaks to notable New Zealanders about life’s tough lessons and how they’ve coped with big challenges. It’s entertaining, it’s emotional, and above all – it’s personal.

    Released 10:12 am on 13 February 2024
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  • Programme and schedule updates for RNZ National

    RNZ National listeners can expect to hear some changes on the station next month with the introduction of a refreshed afternoons and evening schedule from 26 February. The most significant change is Checkpoint moving to a two-hour programme from 4pm, followed by The Panel at 6pm. It has also been announced that Susie Ferguson will be permanent host for Saturday Morning.

    Released 2:00 pm on 31 January 2024
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  • Ruamata: It's More than Hockey

    He pakipūmeka mīharo a Ruamata: It’s More Than Hockey e rangona ai te ihi, te wehi, me wana o te kapa haupoi tāne o Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ruamata, kia whakapāhotia kore utuhia ki rnz.co.nz/ruamata atu i te 1 o Pepuere 2024.

    Ruamata: It’s More Than Hockey, is a remarkable story of pride, passion and determination, streaming free at rnz.co.nz/ruamata from Thursday 1 February.

    Released 9:59 am on 25 January 2024
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  • A commitment to Māori content

    RNZ has appointed Jana Te Nahu Owen (Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Āti Awa) to lead the sourcing, commissioning, developing and publishing of Māori content.

    Released 1:40 pm on 19 January 2024
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  • 2024 launches with content boost for RNZ

    RNZ launches into 2024 with an enhanced selection of new content on rnz.co.nz and the return of regular radio programming to entertain listeners. 

    Released 10:33 am on 18 January 2024
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  • A homecoming for RNZ’s new Political Editor

    Former RNZ senior political reporter Jo Moir is returning to RNZ to take up the role of Political Editor in 2024.  

    Moir, currently Newsroom’s Political Editor, worked for RNZ from 2018 to 2020 and said she was thrilled to have the opportunity to return to broadcasting and lead RNZ’s Press Galley team.  

    Released 2:24 pm on 21 December 2023
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  • Futureproofing Pacific broadcasting – transmitter replacement underway

    RNZ has powered down for the last time its 34-year-old shortwave Thompson transmitter, known as “Transmitter 1”, one of two shortwave transmitters that deliver analogue and digital radio broadcasts to the Pacific.

    Released 2:34 pm on 12 December 2023
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  • 30-part podcast Kim Hill Collection launches today

    A good interview is equal parts art and science. It begins with good preparation. Good preparation leads to good questions, which elicit good responses, which are met by good follow-ups. This is the scientific element. The art is in the colour. The timing; the fearlessness; the humour, the musicality, the silence.

    Released 11:00 am on 11 December 2023
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  • Kōkiri whakamua – moving forward

    A fond farewell 

    As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time to say haere rā to a national icon - broadcasting great Kim Hill. 

    This weekend she will sign off from hosting RNZ’s Saturday Morning with Kim Hill programme. She joined us in 1985 and has delighted audiences with her rapier intelligence and wit ever since. 

    Released 1:03 pm on 24 November 2023
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  • RNZ appoints Director of Editorial Quality and Training

    RNZ has appointed one of its most senior journalists, Political Editor Jane Patterson, to a new position focused on ensuring the public broadcaster provides the highest quality news and current affairs – Director of Editorial Quality and Training.

    Released 3:57 pm on 17 November 2023
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  • Community collaboration for RNZ

    RNZ (Radio New Zealand) and CAMA (Community Access Media Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand) have agreed to share content and work together to benefit audiences across New Zealand. RNZ and CAMA, the national representative body for the 12 independent access media stations across Aotearoa, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today (Friday 3 November 2023). 

    Released 12:59 pm on 3 November 2023
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  • National public broadcasters RNZ (Radio New Zealand) and CBC/Radio-Canada announce new partnership agreement

    RNZ (Radio New Zealand) and CBC/Radio-Canada today announced a new partnership agreement between the two national public broadcasters.

    Released 12:06 pm on 20 September 2023
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  • Outstanding public media that matters

    RNZ has been busy planning for the future in the wake of its funding increase and decision to keep it as the standalone independent, non-commercial public media organisation for Aotearoa.

    Released 1:00 pm on 25 August 2023
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  • NZ On Air and RNZ confirm funding for Local Democracy Reporting

    The LDR scheme will be funded for an additional year by NZ On Air and RNZ, due to its significant contribution to supporting regional journalism.

    Released 3:05 pm on 9 August 2023
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  • RNZ Board releases panel findings

    Jim Mather
    RNZ Board Chairman, Dr Jim Mather, today welcomed the findings of the panel investigating RNZ editorial processes, saying they are accepted in full by the board and all recommendations will be implemented.

    Released 3:59 pm on 2 August 2023
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