De-sex to save animals – SPCA

Blowing the Whistle on family violence: Campaign gaining momentum

The Blow the Whistle campaign against domestic violence is in full-swing with resources and events being organised ahead of the Rugby World Cup. The campaign was announced in June and will use sport to encourage people affected by family violence to get in touch with support services. The first event is lined up for mid-August in Rotorua. According [...] Continue Reading >

Multitasking viewers take “U” on

Young viewers are keeping their eyes on two screens at once with the “.co-hosts” on the new television channel U. TVNZ launched U on May 14, targeting 15-24 year olds. Every Monday and Wednesday night a range of .co-hosts go online to chat with other viewers about the shows airing at the time. Nick Baker is a [...] Continue Reading >

Restaurant Month prepares staff for Rugby World Cup

Local eateries are using Auckland Restaurant Month as a training ground for the Rugby World Cup. The 19-day-long event ends August 14 and involves over 60 city centre restaurants. Auckland Restaurant Month marketing and events executive Natalie Donze says Restaurant Month is not an original idea – London and New York host successful, [...] Continue Reading >

News Corp is everywhere – can our reporter escape Murdoch?

Since the News of the World scandal broke in July, the world is awakening to the uncertainty of what’s safe to watch and what’s true in the news.  Boycotters are rallying against the clutches of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, but are struggling to define exactly which media to avoid in an increasingly conglomerated mediascape.  For [...] Continue Reading >

Pams goes sustainable, Sealord still refuses

Foodstuffs has announced that its in-house brand, Pams, will be the first local brand to switch to tuna caught using sustainable fishing methods. This follows pressure from Greenpeace on Pacific tuna fisheries to abandon the common indiscriminate fishing methods of using Fish Aggregation Devices (FADs) and purse seine nets. FADs gather all the fish in an area [...] Continue Reading >

Cycle helmet study reignites debate

Volcanoes – not earthquakes – are Auckland’s biggest risk

Auckland is more at risk of a volcanic eruption or tsunami than Christchurch or Wellington are, but faces far less – if any – earthquake risk, according to a senior geologist. Dr Steve Edbrooke from GNS Science, says Auckland is a low-risk earthquake area, mostly due to the boundary between the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates diverging off [...] Continue Reading >

Time is up for iconic Auckland timekeeper

Te Waha Nui relaunch

A revamped, new-look Te Waha Nui is to be launched this week.

Due to be switched on tomorrow, (August 18) the new-look Te Waha Nui will be a more dynamic, interactive and multimedia site than its predecessors, says editor and postgraduate journalism student Alexander Winkler.

The revamped site will include a stronger focus on photography and videography, and be much better integrated with social media, says Winkler.

“The old site was great but we needed something that better represented what is going on in online journalism today – and that’s more multimedia and better connections between the story and the reader.

“Readers will eventually get suggestions of other stories they might like. That’s one of our next steps.

“That sort of cross-referencing is vital these days,” he says.

THE GLOBAL CITY

TWN Online looks at urban life in the 21st century in a collaboration with journalism students in Toronto, Edinburgh, Dublin and Bournemouth.

Auckland’s Syrians use Facebook for solidarity

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• St Matthews gets new organ – only 100 years late
• New Warehouse ‘flies in the face’ of Auckland planning
• Thumb’s up for Auckland’s waterfront theatre – but not from everyone
• Women-friendly bar opens in Kinglsand – above the sports bar
• Beautifying Auckland for RWC includes moving the homeless
• Stitching refugee communities together to beat the isolation
• Aucklanders take the health of their waterways into their own hands
• Art deco society will fight for ’scrap of heritage’ on the waterfront
• Real Groovy celebrates 30 years as a ‘cultural emporium’
• Budget protestors threaten disruption during RWC
• Incan pottery piece creates a stir on Trade Me
• Panel hopes to weave ‘ethnic fibre’ through Auckland plan
• Auckland market closure a ‘tragedy’ for the city
• New record set in firefighters’ Sky Tower challenge
• Chinese trade boom celebrated at awards
• Better access the key to a liveable city, say disability groups
• Volunteers put 70,000 hours into region’s parks last year
• RWC a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ chance for buskers
• Car window washers make more than the $10 fine
• Seventies sculpture brought back to life
• Less access to midwives for South Auckland mums
• South Auckland fitness classes bulging at the seams
• Hand-fed bronze whalers help clean up after fishing
• Endangered birds to be returned to Rangitoto and Motutapu
• Network of cycleways proposed for Auckland Plan
• CBD street changes give space back to pedestrians
• Public transport still second to roads in council plan
• Eden Park shelves plans to turn houses into offices for RWC
• A revolution in Auckland healthcare
• Still no sign of a decision on historic St James
• St Heliers residents won’t give up in battle to save heritage
• Development warning for Auckland from US professor of anarchy
• Mayor has a vision for solar power
• Public fashion show returns focus to retail
• Sunny North Wharf abuzz for the Cup
• Dream flags flutter in central city park
• Onselling inorganics may attract council fine
• Transport smart card will be trialled at RWC
• Ferry fares on the rise
• Buses will be in hot demand come RWC
• Tourists find less to complain about
• Homelessness clearly a concern to Aucklanders
• Joie de vivre in High St but the down-and-out down the road
• Aucklanders call for a greener city (video)
• Auckland leads the way in welcoming difference
• Bring on the Cup (video)
• City transport centre unveils three-storey greenwalls
• University of Auckland staff picket public lectures
• Auckland’s got culture – and how
• Thumbs up for waterfront progress
• Pollywood includes Cannes winner
• Cycle lanes ‘essential’ to Lake Rd upgrade
• Pasifika a rare chance to try island food in Auckland
• Auckland’s homeless star in fringe festival
• Aucklanders urged to get back on their bikes

Watch AUT journalism students from 2010 launch their part in the Global City project.

The Pacific Media Centre