Midday Report

Media company Stuff will take over the six o'clock Newshub bulletin on TV Three. The bulletin will not be called Newshub, and will run a one-hour bulletin from Monday to Friday, and a 30 minute bulletin on weekends. Newshub reporter Juliette Speedy spoke to Charlotte Cook.

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All Black Jordie Barrett says a family connection and the chance to test himself in a new environment were the main reasons behind his decision to head to Ireland for a sabbatical at the end of the year.

Midday Business News for 16 April 2024

Police in Sydney are now treating a stabbing at an Assyrian Orthodox Church as a "terrorist attack". At least four people, including a bishop, were wounded in last night's attack in south-west Sydney. A 15-year-old boy has been arrested for the assault at the service, which had been livestreamed. The stabbing comes just days after a fatal attack in a Bondi shopping centre, killing six people. ABC Sydney journalist Brooke Chandler joins me now.

A new future for the 6pm news is what the media outlet Stuff is saying after telling its staff that it will take over running the six o'clock Newshub bulletin on TV Three. The Spinoff Founder and media commentator Duncan Grieve spoke to Charlotte Cook. Sinead Boucher can be seen in front of a banner saying "a new future for the 6pm news" Stuff's Sinead Boucher has told staff that Warner Bros Discovery will be paying Stuff to provide the 6pm bulletins for Three and ThreeNow. She reiterated that Stuff isn't buying Newshub. "They are paying us to deliver a service and the Newshub website is coming free with the deal."

Monday is the first anniversary of the start of the civil war in Sudan. The New Zealand Chair of MSF, Dr Matthew Reid spoke to Worldwatch's Andrew McRae.

A professor of zoology is warning dolphin captures by commercial fishing boats is severely under-reported, despite the introduction of on-board cameras in 2018. Professor of Zoology at Otago University Liz Slooten spoke to Charlotte Cook.

Thirty-one-year-old Ford O'Connor who vandalised the rainbow crossing on Auckland's Karangahape Road two weeks ago has been ordered to pay $16,000 in reparations. Reporter Lucy Xia spoke to Charlotte Cook.

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