Marking an awkward anniversary; COVID-19 clampdown squeezes the media.

In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about the perils of both-sides journalism during the Covid-19 crisis, a weird on-air monologue from Kerre McIvor, and some slightly cringeworthy market research from RNZ.

In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about the perils of both-sides journalism during the Covid-19 crisis, a weird on-air monologue from Kerre McIvor, and some slightly cringeworthy market research from RNZ.

Hundreds of media jobs will go across the Tasman when Australia’s national news agency AAP closes in June - and some working for its offshoots here will be affected too. Mediawatch asks its long-serving chief editor why “Australia's news media engine” is closing and the impact it will have on news.

Stuff added momentum to the #MeToo movement in 2018 with a campaign urging people who’d suffered sexual harassment and abuse to come forward and tell their stories to journalists. Some critics condemned it as "a witch-hunt" and even "McCarthyism" while others worried about the effects on people putting their painful personal stories forward in the media. Two years on, were those fears grounded?

Stuff added momentum to the #MeToo movement in 2018 with a campaign urging people who’d suffered sexual harassment and abuse to come forward and tell their stories to journalists. Some critics condemned it as "a witch-hunt" and even "McCarthyism" while others worried about the effects on people putting their painful personal stories forward in the media. Two years on, were those fears grounded?

Hundreds of media jobs will go across the Tasman when Australia’s national news agency AAP closes in June - and some working for its offshoots here will be affected too. Mediawatch asks its long-serving chief editor why “Australia's news media engine” is closing and the impact it will have on news.

A pillar of Australian journalism falls; Stuff's me to campaign two years in; contradictory coverage of climate and coronavirus

A pillar of Australian journalism falls; Stuff's me to campaign two years in; contradictory coverage of climate and coronavirus

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin talks to Karyn Hay about a chilling picture of the White Island rescue risks, RNZ's ads riling the rest of the media, more on Critic's campaign on party politics - Clive James' online life after death.