Colin Peacock

Wellington

Producer at Radio New Zealand (RNZ)

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Mediawatch: How a Budget is covered

2 weeks ago | rnz.co.nz | Colin Peacock

The sudden scrapping of pay equity claims was hailed as "saving the Budget" by Act leader David Seymour, while Finance Minister Nicola Willis insisted it was not a book-balancing move. When reporters and analysts went into the Budget day lock-up, the estimated saving was the first number many looked for - and it led the coverage once the embargo lapsed. The sum certainly startled presenter Ryan Bridge. "12.8 billion dollars.
Mediawatch: AI and the BBC

3 weeks ago | rnz.co.nz | Colin Peacock

Skinny Mobile has new ads mocked up like breaking TV news coverage, featuring animated character Jo who says she's such a satisfied customer she allowed the company to use an AI clone of herself to endorse it. The cost-cutting use of AI fits the no-frills, low-cost telco's brand. But surveys show the public is sceptical about machine-made journalism - and many people don't trust it. And it's happening anyway.
Mediawatch: Sudden surge of political concern about social media

4 weeks ago | rnz.co.nz | Colin Peacock

On their ZM show last Wednesday, Fletch, Vaughn, and Hayley listed things they'd ban for teenagers if they could. "When I go to the mall, they're bloody crawling everywhere, aren't they? Oh, my God," spluttered Fletch. "How do they get the money? I was at the mall the other day and there were all these kids and they had like, shopping bags. I know, it's like, where do you get the money?" asked Hayley. It was a mocking response to news from the day before.
Mediawatch: Sudden surge of political concern about social media

4 weeks ago | radionz.co.nz | Colin Peacock

On their ZM show last Wednesday, Fletch, Vaughn, and Hayley listed things they'd ban for teenagers if they could. "When I go to the mall, they're bloody crawling everywhere, aren't they? Oh, my God," spluttered Fletch. "How do they get the money? I was at the mall the other day and there were all these kids and they had like, shopping bags. I know, it's like, where do you get the money?" asked Hayley. It was a mocking response to news from the day before.
Mediawatch: Bad Stats And Stereotypes Boost Bootcamp Bid

1 month ago | business.scoop.co.nz | Colin Peacock

Article – RNZA call to consider universal military service was enthusiastically endorsed in the media this week. But those backing it seized on stats that also tell a different story.Colin Peacock, Mediawatch PresenterOn Anzac Day, pundit Matthew Hooton floated the return of national military service in his weekly New Zealand Herald column headlined ‘The case for universal military training’.
Mediawatch: Bad stats and stereotypes boost bootcamp bid

1 month ago | rnz.co.nz | Colin Peacock

On Anzac Day, pundit Matthew Hooton floated the return of national military service in his weekly New Zealand Herald column headlined 'The case for universal military training'. After setting out the country's current financial problems, he proposed getting a bit more of a social bang out of the big bucks that - like it or not - we'll soon be spending on defence.
Mediawatch: The health of health reporting

1 month ago | rnz.co.nz | Colin Peacock

"There isn't a single aspect of the cardio team that's well resourced at the moment," the former head of Nelson Hospital's cardiology service Dr Tammy Pegg told TVNZ's 1News last weekend. She went on to say some patients' conditions had become inoperable while they waited for scans. "I decided not to do an interview. And then I thought about it and I worried that senior leadership... think that this is just a bit of noise and that it will go away," she told 1News.
Mediawatch: The health of health reporting

1 month ago | radionz.co.nz | Colin Peacock

"There isn't a single aspect of the cardio team that's well resourced at the moment," the former head of Nelson Hospital's cardiology service Dr Tammy Pegg told TVNZ's 1News last weekend. She went on to say some patients' conditions had become inoperable while they waited for scans. "I decided not to do an interview. And then I thought about it and I worried that senior leadership... think that this is just a bit of noise and that it will go away," she told 1News.
Mediawatch: Jailed journalist's life spread across the big screen

1 month ago | radionz.co.nz | Colin Peacock

In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed as "a saucy, sexy, funny look at a man with a nose for scandal and a weakness for women". That would probably not fly these days - but as a rule, movies about Australian journalists are no laughing matter. Back in 1982, a young Mel Gibson starred as a foreign correspondent who was dropped into Jakarta during revolutionary chaos in The Year of Living Dangerously.
Mediawatch: Trust in news survey slump stalls after five years in freefall

1 month ago | radionz.co.nz | Colin Peacock

The annual Trust in News in Aotearoa New Zealand report is awaited with trepidation in our media. The first survey from the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (CJMAD) in 2020 found 53 percent of 1000 adult New Zealanders trusted most of the news most of the time - roughly in line with the global average. But it then went downhill fast, plunging 20 percent in five years.

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