The Wire with Joel

According to a new survey, women now make up over half of Aotearoa’s journalism workforce and are equally represented at all levels in the industry.

However, women journalists also expressed having serious concerns about their safety on the job.

News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Massey University Associate Professor and Programme Leader in Journalism, Dr James Hollings about these findings, and the responsibility of organisations to protect their journalists. 

This week on The Wire for Rāapa Wednesday:

News and Editorial Director Jess Hopkins speaks to David Seymour in our weekly chat with the ACT Party, this week they chat about fair pay agreements and the government’s response to Iran. 

Emilia speaks to Dr Kelly Blincoe about the gender diversity crisis in software engineering

She also speaks to Walescka Pino-Ojeda from the New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies about the Brazilian presidential election.

Jess also chats to Massey University’s Dr James Hollings about a new study that found women now make up over half of Aotearoa’s journalism workforce, but have serious concerns about their safety on the job.

And Finally we also have Eurovision with our European correspondent Cameron Adams.

That's us for the Wednesday Wire this week! See you next week

Happy November, listeners!

Joel Rindelaub joined Christina over the phone for a spooky Halloween special of Dear Science, discussing zombie ants, being scared to death, and existing in a simulation.

Casper spoke to Dr Shane Reti from the National party for our weekly segment about NCEA pass rates and alcohol law reform.

Christina spoke to Dr Ethan Plaut, a University of Auckland communications lecturer, about Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.

Casper also spoke to Darrin Bull from ADHD New Zealand about the barriers preventing people from obtaining an ADHD diagnosis.

He also had a kōrero with animal rights activist Aya Oba from the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses about their protest against the Melbourne Cup.

The guilty verdict for Dr Tony Hanne, who was prescribing drugs for ADHD without going through the full official process, is drawing attention to difficulties in getting diagnoses and crucial medication for New Zealanders with the disorder.

To get a sense of what these obstacles look like and how they’re posing such a problem that an expert in the field found himself undercutting the system to get people medication that they need, Casper spoke to Darrin Bull, chairperson of ADHD New Zealand.