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Breaking the circuit

Posted 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…

Reforming Māori media

Posted by E-Tangata | Apr 25, 2021 | Media

…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…

Did the Māori electorates decide the 2017 election?

Posted 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…

Māori media: Inconvenient truths

Posted 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…

Open letter to the University of Waikato Council

Posted 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…

Equality on the battlefield — but not at home

Posted 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…

A man of contradictions

Posted 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…

Māori in the First World War

Posted 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….

Māori media revamp: Where’s the focus on quality journalism?

Posted 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…

‘How many brown faces are there in your reporting team?’

Posted 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….

Inia Tomas: ‘Get your arse back into the fight’

Posted 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…

Who should call the shots on reo Māori priorities?

Posted 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…

Rawiri Wright: It’s cool to be Māori

Posted 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…

The Māori voice comes in English as well as te reo

Posted by E-Tangata | Mar 14, 2021 | Media

…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…

The land of the wrong white crowd: Growing up and living in the shadow of racism

Posted 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…

Hinewehi Mohi: Beyond Twickenham

Posted 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…

Willie Jackson: Primed for politics

Posted 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…

They’re our whānau: Māori perspectives of NZ’s justice system

Posted 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…

Brown were in town. We were on a high. Hope was in the air.

Posted 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…

Wena Harawira — a lifetime of achievement in Māori media

Posted 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…

Maiki Sherman: Holding the powerful to account

Posted 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….

Ebony Duff: It’s my role to tell the Māori radio story

Posted 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…

Peter-Lucas Jones: Storing our reo treasures

Posted 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…

Nevak Rogers: Windows into other worlds

Posted 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….

Hone Harawira: I’m not for pushing Pākehā into the sea

Posted 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…

The Māori mascot

Posted by Anonymous | May 2, 2021 | Reflections

…media services. I was really excited when they wanted to interview me. I’d worked in student radio for free while I studied sociology at university. When I graduated, I wanted…

The second migration: stories of urban Māori

Posted by Bradford Haami | Feb 25, 2018 | Reflections

…she has extensively studied Māori women in leadership and Māori entrepreneurship, and taught Māori media, co-operative education and Māori business. She has lived in the city since she was six…

Rawiri McKree Jansen: Speaking out on Māori health

Posted by Dale Husband | May 10, 2020 | Kōrero

…Middlemore, and she said: “Nah. I don’t want to do that. Yes, I’m Maori, but I just want to be a nurse.” And I totally respect that. She doesn’t have…

Don’t take the Māori vote for granted

Posted by Matt McCarten | Oct 25, 2020 | Comment & Analysis

…experience and talent shone through in his media appearances. Strong performances by Debbie Ngarewa-Packer make this duo a force to reckon with. They understood Māori wanted the return of an…

Stacey Morrison: Te reo growing pains — this is what change feels like

Posted by Stacey Morrison | Dec 3, 2017 | Comment & Analysis, Reo

When there were cries of “Māori snowflakes” in the media, it seemed to me the writer was inadvertently confirming the genuine snowball effect that Te Reo Māori is achieving. This…