A major review of Māori broadcasting has been announced by the government against a backdrop of growing problems. Jobs are set to go at Māori Television in what’s been billed as a “strategic refresh” and some say a planned “one-stop shop” for news would not be good for journalism.

New forms of environmentally-friendly two-wheeled transport have arrived in our three biggest cities - on a trial-only basis. How did media react to the shock of the new?

Britannia rules the airwaves - and the papers, websites and social media; major Māori media review; scary scooter stories come fast and furious.

Mediawatch Midweek is our weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Jeremy chats to Karyn about his attempts to come to grips with the terrorist attack on the Synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11 people last weekend.

On last weekend's Q+A programme, political scientist Dr Bryce Edwards declared the media and politicians "sort of have to" start reporting "what's going on beneath the bed sheets" of politicians. Mediawatch asks if that's really the case and delves into some of last week's coverage of the Jami-Lee Ross affair.

The news media made a “pivot to video” partly because social media users couldn’t get enough of it. But Facebook eventually admitted its figures were flaky and now it is being sued by advertisers in the US. Have media companies made a mistake going visual?​

A top UK news boss is launching a new online news service that promises to slow down digital-age news.  But Delayed Gratification - proudly proclaiming to be “last with the news” - has a head start on so-called 'slow journalism'.

Politics, sex and the media; publishers ponder the 'pivot to video'; late to the party for slow journalism.

Mediawatch Midweek is our weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin chats to Karyn about TVNZ signalling the possibility of payments, a scaled-down Sunday paper, a sports feature with a difference and the backstory to that famous Olympic Black power salute 50 years ago.

Explosive revelations by MP gone rogue Jami-Lee Ross hogged headlines and preoccupied political reporting all week. The volume of coverage and comment obscured reporting of some of the significant parts of the saga - including issues for the media.