RNZ’s Emile Donovan interviewed me on the fact checking item on my 2020 NZ media wish list. I expanded on why cooperation between newsroom to staff the fact checking bureau is a good idea. Here is the link: RNZ Summer Times
Ten things NZ media can achieve in 2020
Before anyone writes a wish list, they should recite the Serenity Prayer.
Yes, I mean the mantra of Alcoholics Anonymous: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Continue reading “Ten things NZ media can achieve in 2020”
Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Magazine idea-sharing in the 1960s.
Republished from Back Story
In the 1960s the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly was the most-read women’s magazine in the world per head of population.[1] And its editor travelled the world in search of ideas to keep it there.
Jean Wishart put an indelible stamp on the magazine she edited from 1952 to 1985 and had firm views on what it should deliver to its readers each week. She saw the magazine’s relationship with readers as a partnership between friends and it had to contain something for everyone (Lynch 2002). Over the course of her long editorship the magazine was in a regular cycle of change that Wishart skilfully managed to avoid alienating what she regarded as a loyal audience. Continue reading “Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Magazine idea-sharing in the 1960s.”
Weekly radio commentary
My weekly media commentaries were aired on Kathryn Ryan’s Nine to Noon programme on Radio New Zealand from 2011 to 2019. Here are links to the final year’s audio:
Decade in Review (my parting comments)