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• Midweek - the good, bad and weird of 2025 17.12.2025
• 'Mother of all debates’ & right v left polarisation of news 13.12.2025
• Midweek: PMs hog the screen - but not ours, Coster at length, WBD-what a big deal 10.12.2025
• The political push for a social media ban, flatpack fever infects media 06.12.2025
• Midweek - Luxon rolls on but Dallow's done, intimate image exposure, RNZ boost, premature Xmas 03.12.2025
• Coup claims, Kiwisaver rev-up & do our media get the economy? 29.11.2025
• Midweek - Field family funeral, newspaper bounceback, highway chickens 26.11.2025
• EV angst, NZ Geo confronts financial fragility 22.11.2025
• Midweek - more Trump v BBC, Tararua tavern tensions, Emile's Irish slapdown 19.11.2025
• BBC under pressure from outside - and within 15.11.2025
• Midweek - Shocker coppers, BBC bloodbath, Te Pāti Māori meltdown 12.11.2025
• Saving the marriage between journalism and the people, Duke of Yuck 08.11.2025
• Midweek - Police v Stuff, Dame Noeline's media blitz, NBR bails up its own customers 05.11.2025
• OTT on CGT, punching below our weight on media freedom, big rejig in Māori news 01.11.2025
• Midweek - severe storms test media, netball keeps media at bay, AI gives voice to the dead 29.10.2025
• Hearts and minds battle on ‘mega-strike,’ Talley's v TVNZ in court 25.10.2025
• Midweek - loud calls to call off the broadcasting watchdog, sorry - but not sorry 22.10.2025
• Pāti-political rift plays out in media, what counts as broadcasting and who decides? 18.10.2025
• Midweek - Gaza ceasefire, Platform v watchdog, Metro moves, self-selected polls 15.10.2025
• Netball’s PR nightmare, online harm examined again 11.10.2025