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Opinion - Journalists avoid his calls, editors loathe it when he highlights mistakes. But he reckons he s not scary at all. Chris Schulz meets RNZ s Mr Mediawatch, Colin Peacock.
Photo: RNZ / Dom Thomas
Over his summer holidays, Colin Peacock tried to switch off. For much of the previous 12 months, the 52-year-old host of Radio New Zealand s long-running Mediawatch show had seen his favourite industry - the media - decimated, and it had taken its toll.
The worldwide pandemic caused by Covid-19 wreaked havoc. Bauer Media closed its doors, with 237 jobs lost and major magazine mastheads like
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