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The Week in Detail: From silicosis to SailGP

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

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The Week in Detail: Manosphere, Bloomfield, and supermarket shelves

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

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Skint Parliament to turn off the radio

Those who rely on their radio to keep track of their politicians in the parliamentary debating chamber could soon find the wireless going dead writes Phil Smith of RNZ

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Younger audiences slip away from local media

Research shows 15-24-year olds are switching off from TVNZ and RNZ and reaching for TikTok and YouTube. Can they be brought back?

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The Week in Detail: Cyclone, Census, China

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

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Yesterdaze: Belittling experiments in leadership

Cantakerous, cranky and communicatively challenged - our politicians turned out all varieties of sub-par this week. James Elliott breaks it down.

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‘Let them watch Netflix’ – what can be salvaged from the wreckage of the failed TVNZ-RNZ merger?

The government’s decision to abandon the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM) Bill came as no surprise after months of increasingly negative speculation. Officially, it stems from the prioritisation of “bread and butter issues” during a cost-of-living crisis, but it’s hard not to see this as a significant policy failure…

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PM axes Ardern's projects, takes wind out of Nats' sails

Hate speech, biofuels, the media merger and social insurance have been dumped in the worthy, but not important bin, after Chris Hipkins takes the axe to his predecessor's policies.

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RNZ the winner in merger cancellation

The state-owned radio broadcaster will keep its independence and get a cash injection after the Government scrapped the proposal to merge it with TVNZ

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TVNZ merger response raises eyebrows

MediaRoom column: On the eve of a Cabinet decision on the proposed public broadcasting merger, questions emerge over the engagement by TVNZ's chief executive of two former National government aides to change the narrative and push TVNZ's view about the Government's plan.

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Hipkins picks his team, turns his focus to policy purge

The easy part is over for Chris Hipkins in naming his new team, now the tough policy decisions lie ahead, writes political editor Jo Moir

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Severe weather continues in North Island: What you need to know

Landslips, road closures, homes and businesses flooded and more heavy rain on the way. Here is what you need to know as the severe weather continues.

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Hipkins needs a new plan for TVNZ and RNZ

A focus on “bread and butter” issues likely signals the end of the RNZ/TVNZ merger, writes Mark Jennings

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Deputy PM on flooding response: ‘We do have each other's backs’

The priority is making sure Aucklanders are safe, Carmel Sepuloni says.

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Chris Hipkins and Jacinda Ardern speak at Rātana Pā

On her final day carrying the weight of being Prime Minister, Ardern says it feels like a "really special day" predominantly because she gets to see her friend and colleague take on the mantle.

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Ashley Bloomfield one of six new knights and dames in New Year Honours

The health boss who led the country's pandemic response is one of the recipients of the country's top honours.

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Merged TVNZ/RNZ a marriage made in heaven, not hell

Dr Peter Davis looks at whether the TVNZ/RNZ merger will rebalance our media eco-system - or is just an ideological project.

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Luxon's commitment to fund RNZ properly to 'do its job'

Christopher Luxon thinks the RNZ/TVNZ merger won’t go ahead but he’s committed under a National-led government to ensure RNZ is properly funded in the future

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Long, steep challenge for Today FM

Finding a niche in the country's most competitive media market is no easy thing and will require long-term thinking for a radio newcomer

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New Zealand anti-vax guardianship case: how rare is it and what powers do courts have?

A court has given doctors medical guardianship over a baby boy whose parents refused to allow ‘vaccinated blood’ to be used in a life-saving operation

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The cycle of continuity and change will repeat if National takes power

Health and water reforms will remain but the TVNZ/RNZ merger will be the sacrificial lamb that shows National is different from Labour after all, says Peter Dunne

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Merging TVNZ and RNZ: some history

Critics of the current Government’s plan to merge TVNZ and RNZ might ponder what might have been in this country had wiser reorganisational choices been made decades ago, writes Bob Gregory as he recalls his time at the NZBC,

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Can the minister please explain?

National’s spokesperson on broadcasting, Melissa Lee, predictably called it a “train wreck” but Willie Jackson’s interview with TVNZ’s Jack Tame appeared to be another example of a bumbling government minister unable to clearly articulate government strategy.

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Willie Jackson's bid to sell merger to TVNZ/RNZ

Willie Jackson is to meet with TVNZ staff on Friday morning and RNZ next week as the March 1 deadline draws closer for the two public media companies’ assets and staff merging into one entity.

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The stoush in Te Urewera that's about more than just huts

The removal of back country huts in Te Urewera has brought tensions simmering within Tūhoe to the surface.

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