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National stays ahead of Labour in NZ poll

On the numbers presented in a new TVNZ-Kantar poll, Jacinda Ardern is on track to lose office in next year's New Zealand election.

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TVNZ news boss a scapegoat in Santamaria affair

TVNZ’s former head of news Paul Yurisich didn’t do any reference checks on disgraced breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria, according to an independent inquiry

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Drama behind the scenes at the Film Commission

After only one year in the job, the head of the New Zealand Film Commission has been stood down over a conflict of interest involving public funding for his own TV series. What happened?

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Paddy Gower’s battle with booze

Patrick Gower is the latest high profile media person to look at the impact of alcohol in New Zealand by examining their own drinking habits. Mark Jennings previews Patrick Gower: On Booze, w

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TVNZ’s unholy mess

TVNZ’s head of news, Paul Yurisich, is on leave while a lawyer investigates its hiring policies in wake of the Kamahl Santamaria fiasco. But as Mark Jennings writes the saga is not over yet.

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Nothing to announce here, move along

Yesterdaze: The Prime Minister struggled to come up with announceables, while TVNZ's announcements veered towards the unspeakable. James Elliott picks his way through the week

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Santamaria's spectacular fall from grace

Kamahl Santamaria's controversial departure from - and arrival at - TVNZ is a multi-level fiasco, writes Mark Jennings, who gave the broadcaster his first job.

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John Campbell v Paddy Gower, Round 2

After three years of co-hosting TVNZ’s early morning show, Breakfast, John Campbell is returning to a reporting role. Mark Jennings looks at what the move means for 1News vs Newshub

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Faafoi shows political skills haven’t deserted him

Mark Jennings assesses the short-term political handling of the Government's decision to proceed with creating one public media entity to swallow TVNZ and RNZ

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Merging commercial TVNZ and non-commercial RNZ won't be easy – and time is running out

The announcement of the government’s decision to merge RNZ and TVNZ into a non-profit “public media entity” was long anticipated but, coming in the second year of Labour’s second term, underwhelming in its lack of detail.

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More questions than answers for RNZ/TVNZ merger

The Cabinet has satisfied its own case for why the country needs a new public media entity, but with so few details available they’ve failed to make the case to the public, writes Jo Moir.

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Ardern's Labour falls behind in NZ polling

Support for Jacinda Ardern's Labour party has fallen to its lowest level since taking office in 2017, according to the latest TVNZ-Kantar political poll.

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New Zealand to merge public TV and radio as audiences shift

New Zealand’s government says it will merge its public television and radio broadcasters into a single new organization it hopes will be better placed to reach younger audiences

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RNZ and TVNZ to be folded into new mega public media entity

RNZ and TVNZ will be subsidiaries of a new mega public media organisation before being folded into it, Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi has confirmed.

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Change won't come fast for new public media entity

A blueprint for the future of public media will be revealed this week but any real change is still some way off, writes political editor Jo Moir

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