The five most baffling moments from Melissa Lee’s interviews
The Spinoff Daily, Thursday April 11
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Today on The Spinoff: ‘The end of news as we know it’, an interactive map of political scandals in Wellington and four generations of menstruation.
“When the news of Newshub’s impending closure was first made public in late February, the media minister Melissa Lee was widely accused of being missing in action. Now that the end of Newshub has been formally set down for July 5, coupled with severe job losses at TVNZ, there has been nowhere for Lee to hide. This time around, her approach seems to be making up for lost time. She’s been everywhere in the past day, from facing parliament’s press gallery to appearances on RNZ and Newstalk ZB. On reflection, however, it seems like maybe her initial instinct to hide from the cameras was the right move.”
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The CEOs of TVNZ, Sky, NZME and MediaWorks on the media crisis
An interactive map of political scandals in Wellington
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Menstruation through four generations
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