Breaking the circuit
…funding for, the Māori media. Among those signs is the Māori media panel that’s been set up to advise the Minister for Māori Development, Willie Jackson, on what those changes…
Read MorePosted by Gary Wilson | Mar 28, 2021 | Media
…funding for, the Māori media. Among those signs is the Māori media panel that’s been set up to advise the Minister for Māori Development, Willie Jackson, on what those changes…
Read More…let’s touch on a couple of your top concerns about the Māori media. We all need to realise that the funding streams for the Maori media came out of Treaty…
Read MorePosted by Morgan Godfery | Sep 16, 2018 | Comment & Analysis
…Waiariki. Things were supposed to be sewn up. But this is where tactical thinking can obscure the strategic. The kawenata won a good deal of “earned media”, but the agreement…
Read MorePosted by Gary Wilson | Nov 25, 2018 | Media
…chances for Māori organisations to help build a Māori media system with none of the ignorance and prejudices and clumsy behaviour that have given the mainstream media such an unpleasant…
Read MorePosted by E-Tangata | Sep 20, 2020 | Comment & Analysis
…Professor of Media and Communication- Bowling Green State University Professor Sandy Grande, Professor Political Science and Native American and Indigenous Studies – The University of Connecticut Professor Sara Ashencaen Crabtre…
Read MorePosted by Monty Soutar | Jun 16, 2019 | History
…Brooking is a Maori”. Bishop Averill, who had welcomed the Pioneers in Auckland Domain, told Hunt he could not overrule the verger but issued a special licence for the couple…
Read MorePosted by Moana Maniapoto | Oct 11, 2020 | Kōrero
…relationship with the media. What’s that about? The reason is that I don’t fit the script. As you well know, the ownership of the media is on the right and…
Read MorePosted by Wena Harawira, Tere Harrison, Piripi Walker | May 22, 2022 | Media, Reflections
…our bond with him goes back more than 30 years when a group of us were setting up Mana Māori Media as a way to deliver a Māori voice that…
Read MorePosted by Monty Soutar | Jun 9, 2019 | History
…sense of cultural superiority was derived from the United Kingdom (where more than a quarter of the Pākehā population had been born) and it was also prevalent in the media….
Read MorePosted by Atakohu Middleton | Feb 17, 2019 | Media, Reo
A review of Māori media, called the Māori Media Sector Shift, was launched by the Minister of Māori Development, Nanaia Mahuta, last year. It offers an opportunity to analyse what’s…
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Mar 27, 2022 | Kōrero
…have been privileged to interview over all these years. They’re housed in our media pātaka. It’s our history. Māori media platforms are part of the fabric of what makes Aotearoa…
Read MorePosted by Steve Deane | Feb 28, 2016 | Media
…an institutional racism that pervades the mainstream media. I really do.” There’s a lot to unpack there. Firstly, Willie has an ability to harangue people without automatically hurting their feelings….
Read MorePosted by Andrew Robb | Oct 24, 2021 | Reo
…a bilingual journalist in Māori media and has been involved with the Māori language revitalisation movement in one way or another for more than 40 years. Here he reflects on…
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Feb 16, 2020 | Kōrero
…in the media and in the hospital. There’s so much going on now in an effort to face up to the inequities in health treatment, that it’s a topic we…
Read MorePosted by Andrew Robb | Mar 4, 2017 | Reo
…was shared through the media with a wider public. And this started to make it “permissible” and almost “normal” for Māori people to speak Māori. At the same time, in…
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Mar 10, 2019 | Kōrero, Reo
…— and especially a need for positive rather than the negative headlines we were seeing week after week. You made your move into the media before the Waiariki journalism course…
Read More…the Māori media dollars should go towards reo Māori. Willie’s personal preference has clearly been for more dollars going into the Māori media — but for both languages. Through the…
Read MorePosted by Trevor Richards | May 17, 2020 | History, Reflections
…a mixed media work carrying the handwritten inscription Greetings from the land of the wrong white crowd. I love it, partly because its message, a vernacular play on the translation…
Read MorePosted by Siena Yates | Sep 13, 2020 | Reo
…we just do down here in Aotearoa, and creates a new normal for us.” It’s a big undertaking, considering mainstream media’s apparent aversion to Māori music, but she’s devoted to…
Read MorePosted by Piripi Walker | Feb 20, 2022 | Media
…media were becoming a major teacher and means of communication. Māori life would not flourish without access to radio and television and the spectrum. So the spectrum is a taonga….
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 22, 2020 | Kōrero
…Māori Authority), and the media — have him poised to make some significant waves. Here he’s chatting with a longtime media colleague and friend, Dale Husband. Willie and his…
Read MorePosted by Awanui Te Huia | May 22, 2022 | PIJF, Reo
…mainstream media these days, and that’s brought complaints, and justifications, from those who say it’s all too much, and all too pointless. Dr Awanui Te Huia, a reo Māori lecturer…
Read MorePosted by ActionStation | Oct 7, 2018 | Comment & Analysis
…Māori are unfairly and inaccurately presented by New Zealand media to the public and that, too often, stories of Māori and the justice system perpetuate anti-Māori views. Journalists and media…
Read MorePosted by Moana Maniapoto | Feb 10, 2019 | Media
…Māori media is preserving and promoting the Māori language. Of course, the media — and that’s not just the Māori media — should play an important role in revitalising te…
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 26, 2017 | Media
…media. Her career began with a brief apprenticeship at a Gisborne radio station as a teenager nearly 40 years ago — and it’s still flourishing. Here we have Dale finding…
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Dec 11, 2016 | Kōrero
Maiki Sherman is one of a relatively new breed of Māori journalists. The new generation has been coming into the media by way of kōhanga reo and kura kaupapa Māori….
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Apr 7, 2019 | Kōrero
…the media. It’s the beginning of the Māori media ecosystem, if you will. Proper funding for Māori radio can only have a positive flow-on effect for the rest of the…
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Feb 2, 2020 | Kōrero
…Pāho. But the broadcasting approach of Te Hiku Media is very much focused on protecting the existing native speakers of te reo Māori while growing a new cohort of speakers…
Read MorePosted by Nevak Rogers | Oct 28, 2018 | Media, Reflections
Nevak Rogers, proudly Hula Haka. Our mainstream media organisations have, for generations, played an unsavoury part in helping keep many New Zealanders uninformed and prejudiced about Māori and Pasifika issues….
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jul 2, 2016 | Kōrero
…going, I could garner more media attention on the Northern Territory Intervention Plan that Aboriginal people were opposed to. And, sure enough, I got heaps of media while I was…
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