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Can the click of a mouse save public broadcasting? Maybe…

Mar 12th, 2010 | By Sabrina Dankel | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

EXPRESSING your opinion these days is easier than ever. SABRINA DANKEL looks at how nearly 20,000 clicks on the web “save” Radio New Zealand.



Do sci-fi geeks dream of statuettes?

Mar 9th, 2010 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Opinion

No big bang as sci-fi comes close to a Best Picture Oscar, writes KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON.



Te Rakau or jail? Where the lost boys can go for help

Mar 3rd, 2010 | By Kara Lok | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

How do you turn around the life of a young man who’s got nowhere to go? KARA LOK found out at Te Rakau, Wellington’s Maori education and drama company.



Indian burial customs adapted for the NZ generation

Feb 26th, 2010 | By Brenda Cottingham | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

New Zealand-born Indians have added elements of Christianity from their adoptive country to their traditional funerals, reports BRENDA COTTINGHAM.



Wellington woman helping to de-mine Cambodia – from NZ

Feb 24th, 2010 | By Lee Stace | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout

There are as many as six million landmines left in Cambodia from the conflicts in the 1970s. LEE STACE meets a NZ woman doing her bit to help.



Quit smoking around me please

Feb 17th, 2010 | By Benjamin Strang | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Opinion

BEN STRANG puts his case for a smoking ban on Wellington’s streets and in public places like toilets.



First sighting of Balibo Five movie made victim’s wife sick

Feb 15th, 2010 | By Tasha Black | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

Balibo film director Robert Connolly talks to TASHA BLACK about what the New Zealand and Australian governments didn’t want you to know about journalists’ deaths in East Timor.



Why I love My Chem

Feb 12th, 2010 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Newsroom Blog

Cold, hard, scientific proof from KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON that My Chemical Romance are the greatest band in the world.



Bigger, better, cheaper: Rodney Hide puts bomb under councils

Jan 27th, 2010 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

Will Rodney Hide make the capital a Super City too? Perhaps. But local councils will certainly have to do things differently.



An anxious time for providers as health reforms take shape

Dec 18th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Health reforms, IN DEPTH, Opinion, Student Features

The Government is taking a new broom to health – and a multiplicity of small, local providers appears to conflict with its solutions. NewsWire explores smaller community services with an uncertain future.



Fear and loathing over what’s up in New Zealand’s primary schools

Dec 16th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Education reforms, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

The controversial national standards for primary schools will be introduced on the first day of school next year. Our IN DEPTH team looks at why teachers and education academics are resisting.



Climate change – PM John Key forgets his Pacific responsibilities

Dec 13th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Climate change, Featured Article, Front Page Layout, IN DEPTH

When he initially turned down going to Copenhagen, John Key forgot NZ has senior responsibilities to Pacific neighbours. Our IN DEPTH team investigates.



What to do with beach may be Nats’ biggest issue as honeymoon ends

Dec 13th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, National's first 100 days

Our IN DEPTH team finds the Foreshore and Seabed Act repeal may put an end to National’s wedded bliss with electors.



After tragedy, outdoor pursuits centre firmly on way to recovery

Dec 10th, 2009 | By Liz Proctor | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Student Features

LIZ PROCTOR found it relatively easy to see beyond a media blackout the passion OPC staff are applying to restore the centre’s reputation.



Britain says ‘ET, stay home’

Dec 10th, 2009 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Newsroom Blog

The Royal Air Force have closed down its UFO hot line. KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON – who is susceptible to mysterious lights in the sky – thinks it’s the end of an era.



I’m an atheist and I’m OK

Dec 7th, 2009 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Newsroom Blog

Spreading the good word, atheist style, KYLIE KLEIN NIXON examines why she chooses not to believe.



Why I love It’s Not Ok! campaign

Dec 2nd, 2009 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Newsroom Blog

A news series of billboards aims the safety message in the wrong direction, says KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON It’s time to put pressure on the ones who need to change.



Where is my robot buddy?

Dec 1st, 2009 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Newsroom Blog

Technology isn’t really keeping up with the imagination, writes KYLIE KLEIN NIXON. Where are the robot buddies Science Fiction promised us?



Character of Wellington’s wild south coast needs protection

Nov 27th, 2009 | By Penelope Scott | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

The protection group looking after Te Raekaihau Pt wants this recognised in coastal rehab plan, reports PENELOPE SCOTT.



Artists mix illustration, photography, fashion and jewellery

Nov 20th, 2009 | By Jonathan Tringham | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Picture story

Woven-tales of Ink, Silver and Silk is an exhibition showcasing the work of Minu, Mairi, Sarah Dalley, Sophie Lewis-Smith, reports JONATHAN TRINGHAM.



Inner city church finds new ways to attract young people

Nov 18th, 2009 | By Sabrina Dankel | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, News

What happens on Sunday evenings at Presbyterian St John’s in Wellington is unconventional, writes SABRINA DANKEL.



Artist Jason Munn: Haunting band poster visuals grounded in sound

Nov 17th, 2009 | By Catherine McGregor | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, News

In Wellington to open a career retrospective exhibition, leading US graphic designer Jason Munn talks to CATHERINE McGREGOR.



Wellington author unravels ancestor’s war-time exploits

Nov 10th, 2009 | By Sarah Hardie | Category: Featured Article, Features, Uncategorized

Stephen Harris talks to SARAH HARDIE about uncovering the story of his great-uncle’s World War II experiences.



VIDEO: Whitireia performing arts centre show was fit for a prince

Nov 9th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

‘Wonderfully evocative’ were the words Prince Edward used to describe Whitireia Performing Arts Centre. Video: CARL SUURMOND. Story: JESS JONES.



Overcoming odds – how a little rugby club became a great one

Nov 6th, 2009 | By Lee Stace | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Sport

The Waikanae Rugby Club has been around for a while, but only in recent times has it become a force in the Horowhenua Kapiti competion. LEE STACE reports.



Wellingtonians get more time to have say on 30-year plan

Nov 5th, 2009 | By Tasha Black | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Wellington City Council wants more input into plan that will guide Capital for next three decades, reports TASHA BLACK.



New Zealand come back to claim first day

Nov 3rd, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Latest News, News, Sport

After strong start, Pakistan find themselves in trouble



Now the cavity’s in my wallet

Nov 3rd, 2009 | By Bonnie Tai | Category: Featured Article, Features, Opinion

‘We told you so!’ BONNIE TAI explains why it’s your bad to put off that trip to the dentist.



A conversation with My Year Without Sex director Sarah Watt

Nov 2nd, 2009 | By Melissa McDonald | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

My Year Without Sex is not, in fact, about the sex, Australian film director Sarah Watt reveals in an interview with MELISSA McDONALD.



Vampires are the new black

Nov 1st, 2009 | By Bonnie Tai | Category: Featured Article, Features, Opinion

Forbidden love, fangs and frantic fans – the Twilight saga has it all. NewsWire’s BONNIE TAI offers her opinion on the growing trend.



The bane of a child’s school life

Nov 1st, 2009 | By Tory Regan | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Opinion

Being bullied is not a life sentence, says TORY REGAN. Children need to know bullying will end, and be proud that they are different.



No more boozy Saturday nights, no more sausages on the barbie

Oct 29th, 2009 | By Tasha Black | Category: Diversity, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

But converting to Islam has been a positive experience for five young Kiwis, who tell their stories to TASHA BLACK.



Sharing is key to web success, says leading Chinese blogger *VIDEO*

Oct 23rd, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Isaac Mao, China’s first blogger, visited Whitireia journalism students to talk blogs, the great firewall and censorship 2.0.

The NEWSWIRE TEAM took video, photos and interviewed Isaac about the concept of “sharism”.



Karaoke nights help to smooth business deals in South Korea

Oct 21st, 2009 | By Tasha Black | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News, Uncategorized

But it’s no place for a businesswoman. Dunedin CEO Brigit Blair gives TASHA BLACK her perspective on trading Korea style.



Tame Iti exhibits with others at Wellington’s Thistle Hall (VIDEO)

Oct 20th, 2009 | By Ruby Armstrong-Kooy | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Multimedia, Picture story

Long-time Tuhoe activist Tame Iti was among artists selling their work to raise funds for those affected by the 2007 police raids. RUBY ARMSTRONG-KOOY and CARL SUURMOND got an exclusive interview.



Meet your new neighbour – a four-lane expressway

Oct 13th, 2009 | By Lee Stace | Category: Featured Article, News

Marie Grant and Joan O’Dea fear they are about to either lose their homes or find themselves living next to a motorway. LEE STACE finds out about the downside of the Kapiti Coast expressway options.



Aboriginal director tells the hard stories about his community

Oct 5th, 2009 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Features

Director Warwick Thornton visits Wellington to promote his first feature length film, Samson and Delilah. He speaks to KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON about community and telling the truth.



Water, water everywhere – but nothing to drink in Manila

Oct 1st, 2009 | By Sabrina Dankel | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

SABRINA DANKEL discovers a Whitireia connection to the devastating typhoon and flood in Manila. She talks to Kaye Jujnovich about the plight of her Filipina friends.



Chathams women take hard line with men over prostate cancer

Sep 29th, 2009 | By Carl Suurmond | Category: Featured Article, News

NewsWire journalist CARL SUURMOND went to the Chathams with the Prostate Cancer Foundation last weekend. Here’s his report on how the island’s 150+ men were targeted.



Please call me Bill: how migrants choose their new NZ names

Sep 24th, 2009 | By Sabrina Dankel | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Computer giant Bill Gates inspired one young newcomer to NZ to change his name to Bill, reports SABRINA DANKEL. She writes here about why some migrants take Western names.



Oscar winner will restore cinema that’s not shown a movie in 44 years

Sep 19th, 2009 | By Daniel Simmons Ritchie | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Jamie Selkirk’s pet project is a multi-million dollar revamp for the Capitol. He wants to have it open by next September, reports DANIEL SIMMONS RITCHIE.



French rooster not for the chop in Cafe Bastille’s art auction

Sep 18th, 2009 | By Melissa McDonald | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

FANS of award winning Cafe Bastille are mourning its closure – but also got a chance to buy some of its art, reports MELISSA McDONALD.



Capital’s people are much more beautiful than its buildings

Sep 15th, 2009 | By Carl Suurmond | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News, Picture story

WELLINGTONIANS are more beautiful than their architecture, says a Chilean photographer taking pictures of people on the capital’s buses. CARL SUURMOND took pictures of him.



Queer youth support project loses funding in government cuts

Sep 11th, 2009 | By Tory Regan | Category: Diversity, Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

A New Zealand-wide queer youth development project will close after losing $150,000 in government funding, reports TORY REGAN.



Outsiders size up big gig outside

Sep 10th, 2009 | By Reuben McDougall | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

WELLINGTON punk-rock band The Outsiders are set to take on Europe at the end of this month with a four-week tour of Germany, the Netherlands, UK and Ireland, reports REUBEN McDOUGALL.



Bleak landscape to be transformed for community to enjoy

Sep 10th, 2009 | By Catherine McGregor | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

An under-used Waitangirua carpark is to make way for picnic areas and playgrounds. CATHERINE McGREGOR finds out why community representatives are enthusiastic.



Move over for Rover on the buses?

Sep 2nd, 2009 | By Kara Lok | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Should public transport users be dogged by the canine companions of fellow travellers on their way to exercise areas? In the capital, many people aren’t in favour. By KARA LOK.



Young Hutt actor not allowed to see her debut on the big screen

Aug 26th, 2009 | By Blair Stewart | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Adult themes and swear words have separated a Hutt 7-year-old from her first role in a movie, Separation City. But she’s happy to wait, she tells BLAIR STEWART.



Success in recession for new ethnic media, Diversity Forum hears

Aug 25th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Diversity, Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

A new Indian newspaper will launch in the Capital soon, the fifth annual Diversity Forum was told this week. NewsWire had a team at the forum to cover some of the 40 presentations.



Wellington a proving ground for cinema’s next big thing

Aug 20th, 2009 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

The capital has a starring role in the 3D movie-making revolution. KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON talks to a leading exponent of cinematic post production.



Gap between German and Kiwi lifestyle still wide after 19 years

Aug 17th, 2009 | By Sabrina Dankel | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Kiwi Michelle Kern says she still feels the differences of lifestyle and mentality between her old and new home, she tells SABRINA DANKEL.



Living in Wellington? Priceless

Aug 12th, 2009 | By Adam Gosney | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Wellingtonians tell ADAM GOSNEY the capital isn’t as affordable as a recent survey suggests – but they love the lifestyle.



Little drummer boy runs in family

Aug 6th, 2009 | By Janice Ikiua | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

Little Sjaak Ferrer may be only 13 months old, but he’s no stranger to the drums. His dad, Rafael Ferrer of dance school Cuban Fusion, has been playing them since he was not much older, reports JANICE IKIUA.



New Zealand telcos are on lookout for sexy cell phone invader

Aug 5th, 2009 | By Carl Suurmond | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Threat from new text message ‘worm’ down played by Kiwi phone and anti-virus companies, reports CARL SUURMOND.



Lower Hutt tries bus-stop vibe to grate on young ears

Jul 30th, 2009 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout

Barry Manilow and Bach are blaring at central Lower Hutt bus stops to deter young people hanging out, reports KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON.



Look up and take notice: Your council paid $10k for this

Jul 30th, 2009 | By Jonathan Tringham | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, News

Wellington City’s new public artwork has taken a bit of a beating. JONATHAN TRINGHAM asks passers-by for their thoughts.



Cuba Mall’s big green tuatara gets a new red rubber bed

Jul 28th, 2009 | By Jonathan Tringham | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Bucket Fountain playground has a $4280 rubber makeover to make it safer, reports JONATHAN TRINGHAM.



Top US news photographer fears for journalism ethics

Jul 22nd, 2009 | By Reuben McDougall | Category: 2008 Election Special, Featured Article, Features, News, Opinion

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jim MacMillan worries about how social media affect journalists’ approaches to reporting, he tells REUBEN McDOUGALL.



Cactus needle hits the groove

Jul 20th, 2009 | By Catherine McGregor | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

Making music for the tiny New Zealand market requires a certain degree of blind belief, Wellington band Family Cactus tell CATHERINE McGREGOR



Upside-down Sudanese bats and celebrating Matariki

Jul 1st, 2009 | By Tasha Black | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

An ex-pat American story-teller relates a Sudanese story about bats that encourages diversity, reports TASHA BLACK.



Bike bits and other worldly vision win sculptures place in top show

Jun 25th, 2009 | By Sarah Hardie | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article

Sculptures by former Chilton St James School students Lisa Basford and Tania Vercoelen, are part of a travelling art exhibition, reports SARAH HARDIE.



Tertiary education could face tough times next year

Jun 24th, 2009 | By Lee Stace | Category: Featured Article, News

Tertiary institutions face budget cuts of up to 20% in 2011 and some courses could be closed, says Whitireia’s CEO. LEE STACE talked to Don Campbell about tough times.



You’re lovely, Kiwis…and no, I don’t eat sauerkraut every day

Jun 23rd, 2009 | By Sabrina Dankel | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Opinion

After spending the last eight months in New Zealand, German journalism student Sabrina Dankel explains how she experienced Kiwi charm.



The rise and rise of blogging

Apr 17th, 2009 | By Sandra Dickson | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout

As Kiwiblog stirs up the Mt Albert Labour candidacy debate, bloggers’ influence appears to be growing. SANDRA DICKSON runs the rule over bloggers at the last election.



Stout fellows make history

Apr 12th, 2009 | By Anne Cornish | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout

ANNE CORNISH meets two historians who revealed dodgy deals foisted upon Maori and who provided background for the court action that sparked the foreshore and seabed law.



It’s about safety for an English rose

Apr 10th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Features, Student Features

Being English and settling in New Zealand should be a breeze – shouldn’t it? Not necessarily, as one Wellington woman tells MELISSA KINEALY.



Maori partnership seen as ‘model’

Apr 10th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Features, Student Features

Amid renewed national debate about Maori representation, PAUL McBETH, KRISTINA KEOGH, CHARLOTTE HILLING and LUKE APPLEBY look into Wellington regional council’s partnership with Maori.



Newtown’s A’art gallery open to all

Apr 10th, 2009 | By Luke Appleby | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout

A’art is a new Wellington community gallery offering free exhibitions and support for artists, and taking no commission on sales. LUKE APPLEBY reports.



Niueans share gift of culture

Apr 1st, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Features, Student Features

As part of moves to save their culture, Niueans from Wellington are on a visit to the island. BRENDA COTTINGHAM explains the value they place on the trip.



Out in the world and coping with an ‘invisible disability’

Mar 30th, 2009 | By Reesh Lyon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Student Features

Asperger Syndrome is more than just a troubling form of autism. REESH LYON meets a Wellingtonian who has the syndrome, to gain an insider’s guide to the condition.



Maori take softly, softly approach to Crown waterfront jewel

Mar 24th, 2009 | By William Liando | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

Maori will have soon have control of a chunk of the Wellington coast. AARON CASKEY, JESSICA DIXON, MIYUKI McGUFFIE, REESH LYON and WILLIAM LIANDO explain.



Wanted: ideas on how you can raise $1 million in a recession

Mar 23rd, 2009 | By Kristina Keogh | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Student Features

It took Kitty McKinley just one lecture in law school to know being a lawyer isn’t anything like law on TV. KRISTINA KEOGH talks to a youth centre manager with a big challenge.



Wellington’s viewpoints: You can’t beat them on a good day

Mar 21st, 2009 | By Luke Appleby | Category: Featured Article, Picture story

Stuck inside? Even if the weather outside is terrible, you can visit Wellington’s best lookout spots right here. LUKE APPLEBY stitched the photos together.



Moa egg expert intrigued by Transylvanian find

Mar 18th, 2009 | By Reesh Lyon | Category: Featured Article, Features, Student Features

A rare and intact moa egg has been found in a museum in Romania by a Wellington couple.

Now a Te Papa expert in taonga wants to investigate how it got there, reports REESH LYON.



Vaccine prevents cervical cancer: but what about the moral issues?

Mar 14th, 2009 | By Sarah Coddington | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

A cervical cancer vaccine has raised heated debate among religious groups. So what do New Zealand’s Catholics think of Gardasil? SARAH CODDINGTON finds out.



Mt Vic tunnel tooting gets to pedestrians, but drivers love it

Mar 14th, 2009 | By William Liando | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout

VIDEO: Why motorists love tunnel tooting under Mt Vic – and the ear-drum hammering it gives tunnel pedestrians. WILLIAM LIANDO shoots the story.



Woman with a big heart for Wellington’s homeless

Mar 13th, 2009 | By Jessica Dixon | Category: Featured Article, Features, Student Features

JESSICA DIXON finds a Wellington Good Samaritan organisation that tries to keep the hurt, the abused and the needy off the city’s streets at night.



Make my pimples go away! Govt eases access to acne-busting drug

Mar 3rd, 2009 | By Jenny Meyer | Category: Featured Article, Features, Student Features

Sufferers of severe acne no longer need a specialist to prescribe them a powerful medication. JENNY MEYER investigates.



Slumdog Millionaire gets Oscar: see what our reviewer thinks

Feb 13th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

Alexandra Johnson gives her view of the Oscar best movie winner. See her comments and those of other reviewers who were watching, reading, listening over summer.



Where you should put your money and why – differing views

Feb 13th, 2009 | By Reesh Lyon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

In December, REESH LYON spoke to Interest.co.nz managing editor Bernard Hickey about ways to invest money. He put the same questions to ABN AMRO Craigs’ stock exchange advisor Anne Hare – and got different answers.