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REVIEW: Oprah Winfrey used all her tricks on her slam-dunk Harry and Meghan interview, proving to be the real star of the show.

LAWRENCE SMITH/Stuff Wendy Petrie, photographed in August when it was announced she was being made redundant, has been back on TVNZ “so much she’s pretty much a regular”, Jane Bowron writes. OPINION: Even though newsreader Wendy Petrie has been made redundant she’s appearing regularly on TVNZ’s 6pm nightly news bulletin. For days and weeks, magazines ran with Petrie’s plight after she was made redundant last August. Magazine headlines pondered what Wendy would do next as they predicted a grieving nation would experience major separation anxiety from the veteran newsreader, she wh...

Newsreader Wendy Petrie uses the phrase e whai ake for stories coming up after the advertising breaks. Those who follow our television news on channel 1 will no doubt have noticed over the past few months that presenters Simon Dallow and Wendy Petrie now regularly introduce items which are to follow the advertising breaks with a sentence such as E whai ake. or These are both single-phrase sentences, each composed of a base word – whai (“to follow or pursue”) accompanied by particles (“structural words”). The central principles governing the structure of sentences are that a sen...

Media Person of the Year Newsroom 17/12/2020 © Provided by Newsroom MediaRoom's annual salute to those who stood out, through strong and high-calibre journalism, executive innovation or success, and advocacy for the public right to know Media businesses were initially hit hard in 2020 by the pandemic - with lockdown ultimately inspiring Bauer to shut down its magazines and lay off 200 staff, and more than 430 other roles disappearing from other companies as advertising dried up. Government funding helped broadcasters (relieved of tech fees), publishers (given public sector advertising mon...

The Quiet Earth and The Dark Horse. Savage enters this third realm of NZ film making and stamps its authority on the violent subculture that lurks beneath the tension of our civility with a realism and raw authenticity that makes you weep. Such a mind blowing movie, it deserved far more attention than Covid allowed. FUNNIEST NZ COMEDY – Late Night Big Breakfast & Taskmaster NZ At a time when Auckland Comedy has Comedy Commissars monitoring male comedians for unsanctioned humour, we almost gave up on anything funny being produced this year. It feels like it has been eons since TVNZ made us ...