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US bound – the Fulbright Harkness Fellowship
Last night I spent a great evening dining with previous Harkness fellows in Wellington. I’m incredibly fortunate to be heading to the US early next year on a Fulbright-Harkness Fellowship to look at the future of public interest journalism and hopefully pick up some ideas that could be applied here in New Zealand. Here’s a […]
MoreNZPA closure will hurt science coverage
It had become apparent to journalists some time ago that things were starting to look shaky for the country’s news wire service NZPA, with its major backer Fairfax itching to go it alone, generate its own content and save some money in the process. But last night’s news that Fairfax’s move to pull the plug […]
MoreAmid carnage media bears brunt of disaster
It was only a couple of months ago, one sunny morning that I visited science reporter Paul Gorman and tech editor Will Harvie at The Press in Christchurch. The beautiful old building housing the newspaper was devastated in Tuesday’s earthquake and at least one of the newspaper’s staff was killed when the roof crashed down […]
MoreWho covers science in the New Zealand media?
When we set up the Science Media Centre back in June 2008, science reporting in the mainstream media was largely left to a handful of mainly junior reporters who had to juggle the round alongside general reporting duties and who weren’t destined to stick with science for long. The situation, thankfully, has changed somewhat for […]
MoreRNZ woes – what does it mean for science coverage?
If you work in or near the media, you’ll have heard the nervous buzz from journalists over the last few days about the depressing options facing Radio New Zealand if it is to cut costs and stay within its flat, $38 million budget. The Journz mailing list where a smattering of Kiwi hacks hang out […]
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PETER GRIFFIN 