MORNING REPORT/RNZ
RNZ s Morning Report took a break from shortly before Christmas until last Monday. That often left stand-in journalists with little option but to interview each other, writes Jane Bowron. (First published December 21, 2020)
OPINION: Towards the year’s end, major dictionary publishers reveal their word of the year. Most of 2020’s words will raise few surprised eyebrows. For Collins, Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com it was
pandemic. Oxford University Press, however, ran a different Word of the Year campaign from usual. Acknowledging that 2020 has required rapid change and adaptation, in language as well as in other aspects of our lives, Oxford’s lexicographers prepared a 38-page report called “Words of an Unprecedented Year”.