Strange days for journalism
9:22 Jun 26, 2012 in Hard News by Russell Brown
For this week's final episode of Media7, we had planned a discussion of "the state we're in" in media. We've decided to refine that topic to partially focus on the extraordinary events unfolding across the Tasman at Fairfax, where billionaire...
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If wishing made it so...
17:28 Jun 25, 2012 in Hard News by Russell Brown
The Prime Minister has had another Announcement Monday: this time it's a series of five-year targets for the public sector. On one hand, the Better Public Services targets are generally laudable. On the other, there is this graph, Figure 2...
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Hip Hop Voices 1: Meet the Kingpin
14:54 Jun 25, 2012 in Hard News by Russell Brown
I was not economical with the research for my story, 'Pasifika, Mon Amour' for the new issue of Metro magazine. I got a lot I couldn't use, especially on the theme of Auckland hip hop, a Pasifika-driven phenomenon that, I...
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