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3 weeks ago | 
stuff.co.nz | Adam Hollingworth
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
rnz.co.nz | Adam Hollingworth
As Newshub enters its final week, reporter Adam Hollingworth looks back at its battle to beat TVNZ. Where it succeeded and where it failed.
This is the second and final episode of The Detail's two-part podcast. Part one can be found here.
In 2013 things were going well for 3 News. It was performing strongly in the Auckland market, often beating TVNZ in the key 25 to 54 demographic.
There were signs that it was also making progress with audiences in Wellington and South Island.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
rnz.co.nz | Adam Hollingworth
As Newshub enters its final week, reporter Adam Hollingworth talks to current and former staff about the news division's early days and key events in its 35-year history
This is part one of a two-part podcast. The second part will air Monday.
At 6pm on July 6th Mike McRoberts and Samantha Hayes will read the last ever Newshub bulletin.
Both have spent the majority of their careers at New Zealand’s first private television network.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
newshub.co.nz | Adam Hollingworth
Northlanders are demanding compensation after it's revealed how contractors caused the power crisis. Credits: Image - Transpower; Video - Newshub It's been revealed Northland's power crisis was caused by contractors removing too many nuts from the base plates of the power pylon that toppled on Thursday. Around 100,000 properties were left in the dark, and compensation is now on the minds of affected Northlanders.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
newshub.co.nz | Adam Hollingworth
Kiwi Andy Neill and Aussie Greg Armstrong have spent 20 years analysing the Beatles' tour of NZ to write a book. Credits: Image - Getty Images; Video - Newshub Sixty years ago the Beatles toured New Zealand and Australia and upended our cultural landscape.
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May 26, 2024 | 
newshub.co.nz | Adam Hollingworth
A youth leader with Destiny Church has reportedly been stood down for allegedly sexually abusing youths. Credits: Newshub A youth leader with Destiny Church has reportedly been stood down for allegedly sexually abusing youths in his care. It's reported he had youngsters stay at his home over a number of years and now faces multiple sexual assault allegations.
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May 18, 2024 | 
newshub.co.nz | Adam Hollingworth |Natasha Payne
Sid Going had a magical connection with brothers Ken and Brian. Credits: Image - Photosport, video - Newshub New All Blacks coach Scott Robertson leads the tributes to legendary halfback Sidney Milton Going, who has died, aged 80. "Sid lit up the field with his ability and energy," said Robertson. "He lit up people's hearts off it - that was his trademark."Nicknamed 'Super Sid', Going played 29 tests, scoring 10 tries for the All Blacks in the 1960s and 70s.
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May 15, 2024 | 
newshub.co.nz | Adam Hollingworth
An urgent translocation effort will need to be repeated to save the species. Credits: Newshub. Auckland Zoo is at the heart of plans to conserve a critically endangered species of skink that was only discovered a decade ago. Fewer than 20 awakōpaka skinks are known to inhabit the Homer Saddle in Fiordland. In an effort to breed a "safety net" population, conservationists located five of them and took them to Auckland Zoo - but there's one small snag.
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May 14, 2024 | 
newshub.co.nz | Adam Hollingworth
Related: The teenagers appeared in court for the first time in March last year. Credits: Video - Newshub; Image - File Warning: This article contains details that may disturb some people. A witness says one of the two teenagers accused of murdering Joshuah Tasi in the Auckland suburb of Beach Haven said: "That's what you get when you come to Beach Haven" after he and the other defendant allegedly stabbed Tasi multiple times.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
newshub.co.nz | Adam Hollingworth
A water safety course aimed at Māori who dive for kaimoana in the Bay of Islands aims to bring down the numbers who drown. Credits: Newshub A water safety course aimed at Māori who dive for kaimoana in the Bay of Islands aims to bring down the numbers who drown. Of the 90 people who drowned in Aotearoa last year, 19 were Māori. Water Safety New Zealand described the rate as "alarming and disproportionate". Per head of population, they're dying at twice the rate they should be.
