Day 24 - Disabled United - National Media Team

Establishment of a National Media Team

By Tracy Peters

National Media Team

13/04/2024

To build a successful national campaign that wins, sound, consistent, and accurate information needs to be provided to audiences at the right time in the proper format. 

A national media team, a crucial component of our campaign, has been established. This team is composed of volunteers who possess excellent media skills.

The job

Creating stories, posters, banners, graphics, helping people be interviewed, sending press releases, writing email newsletters, etc.

Skills needed

Skills include writing, graphical design, photography and video, copy editing, and social media.

Workflow

An automated workflow system is being set up to help make this job easier.

Initial members of the team are

Auckland

• Lisa Baker

Tauranga

• Renee Campbell

Palmerston North

• Kylee Maloney 027 412 6733 silvercords@icloud.com

Invercargill

• Carolyn Weston QSM cgweston@kinect.co.nz

• Tracy Peters tracy@redworks.co.nz

For more information

contact us

To volunteer

To join this team, please use the Join Disable United Form and tell us that you have media skills. We will contact you within a day. > join now

RESOURCES

• List of media outlets

Last updated 13/04/2004

Day 26 - Disabled United - Changes to the website

Changes to the Disabled United website

By Mike Peters

National Tech Support Team

13/04/2024

Mobile: 022 660 5006

Disabled people are increasingly self-organising to defend their rights, and the website had to be changed to better support the growing campaign.

Finding information

It is becoming harder to find specific information on the website, such as event details, resources, and contact information because it is growing daily.

Solution

Create a home page that helps people find what they are looking for. This page will be updated every day. > more

Building local groups

The efforts of a local group can get lost in the noise of the big picture.

Solution

Create a home page for each local group that allows the promotion of specific campaigns. This page can be updated whenever needed. > more

Creating information

To build a successful national campaign that wins, good, consistent, accurate information must be provided to the audience at the right time in the proper format.

Solution

Set up a national media team of volunteers from anywhere in Aotearoa-New Zealand who have excellent media skills. > more

Website reliability

The website needs to be reliable, easy to navigate and able to feed into email newsletters and social networking, accept donations, protect people's privacy, be accessible and support thousands of members.

Solution

Set up a tech support team of volunteers from anywhere in Aotearoa, New Zealand, with excellent IT skills. > more 

Media - Scoop

Scoop is a New Zealand Internet news site run by Scoop Media Limited, part of the Scoop Media Cartel.

Owner: Scoop Media Limited

Editor: Alastair Thompson

Commercial: Yes

Launched: 1999; 25 years ago

Submissions: Press releases may be emailed to Scoop

Instructions: https://www.scoop.co.nz/about/submit.html

RESOURCES

• www.scoop.co.nz

• List of articles and programmes about the cuts

• Wikipedia

Media - Manawatu Standard

The Manawatū Standard is the daily paper for the Manawatū region based in Palmerston North. The Manawatū Standard has been recognised as one of the best in New Zealand being a finalist in the 2008 Qantas Media Award for best regional daily newspaper; it won the same category in 2007. Wikipedia

Owner: Stuff

Circulation: 44,000

Format: 

• Tabloid (Monday-Friday)

• Broadsheet (Saturday)

Editor: Matthew Dallas

Reporters: Alecia Rousseau

RESOURCES

• www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard

• List of articles and programmes about the funding cuts

• Wikipedia

Media - NZ Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand. Wikipedia

First issue date: 1863

Owner(s): NZME

Editor: Murray Kirkness (weekday)

Circulation: 107,073 (September 2019)

Format:

• Compact (weekdays and Sundays)

• Broadsheet (Saturdays)

Founded: 1863; 161 years ago; (by William Chisholm Wilson)

Headquarters: Auckland, New Zealand

ISSN: 1170-0777

Reporters: Colleen Brown, Issac Davidson

RESOURCES

• www.nzherald.co.nz

• List of articles and programmes about the funding cuts

• Wikipedia

Updated 06/04/2024

Media - RNZ

Radio New Zealand, commonly known as Radio NZ or simply RNZ, is a New Zealand public-service radio broadcaster and Crown entity that was established under the Radio New Zealand Act 1995. Wikipedia

CEO: Paul Thompson (Sept 2013–)

Founded: 1995

Owner: Minister of Finance (50%); Minister for Media and Communications (50%)

Headquarters: Radio New Zealand House, Wellington.

Broadcast 24 hours a day 7 days a week

Reporters Email story ideas or press releases to the RNZ News team: news@rnz.co.nz.

RESOURCES

• www.rnz.co.nz

• List of articles and programmes about the funding cuts

• Wikipedia

Media - Newshub

Newshub is a New Zealand news service that airs on the television channel Three, and on digital platforms. It also operated on radio stations run by MediaWorks Radio until December 2021. Wikipedia

Network: Three

Release: 26 November 1989

Reporters: Amelia Wade, Trent Doyle

RESOURCES

• www.newshub.co.nz/home.html

• List of articles and programmes about the funding cuts

• Wikipedia

Media - The Press

The Press is a daily newspaper published in Christchurch, New Zealand, owned by media business Stuff Ltd. First published in 1861, the newspaper is the largest circulating daily in the South Island and publishes Monday to Saturday. One community newspaper-Northern Outlook-is also published by The Press and is free. Wikipedia

Owner: Stuff, Fairfax Media

First issue date: 25 May 1861

Circulation: 37,002 (2019)

Editor: Kamala Hayman

Format:

• Compact (weekday)
• Broadsheet (Saturday)

Headquarters: Christchurch, New Zealand

ISSN: 0113-9762

Reporters Maddy Croad

RESOURCES

• www.thepress.co.nz

• List of articles about the funding cuts

• Wikipedia

Media - Radio Southland

The Community Access Media Alliance (CAMA) (formerly the Association of Community Access Broadcasters (ACAB)), also known as the Access Radio Network, is a group of twelve New Zealand community radio media organisations.

The stations were established between 1981 and 2010 and have received government funding since 1989 to broadcast community programming and provide facilities, training and on-air time for individuals and community groups to produce programming.

Radio Southland broadcasts on 96.4 FM in Southland. It provides training and airtime for people of all backgrounds to present live radio, including women, children, young people, disabled people and people from ethnic minorities.

The station brands itself as "locally-owned" and "the voice of the community", and broadcasts the daily Crave Rave Breakfast Show and other local shows. Its schedule also includes programmes from other Association members, and regular New Zealand music segments. Wikipedia.

Frequency: 96.4 FM

Programmes:

• SOAR (Jack Lovet-Hurst)

• Blind Citizens (Carolyn Weston)

RESOURCES

• www.radiosouthland.org.nz/

• List of programmes and articles about the funding cuts

• Wikipedia

Media - The Conversation

The Conversation is a network of nonprofit media outlets publishing news stories and research reports online, with accompanying expert opinion and analysis. Articles are written by academics and researchers under a Creative Commons license, allowing reuse without modification. Wikipedia

Owner: The Conversation Media Group

Available in: English, French, Spanish, Indonesian

Content license: CC Attribution / No derivatives 4.0

Founded: April 2010

Founder(s): Andrew Jaspan, Jack Rejtman

Headquarters: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

ISSN: 2201-5639

Authors: Hilary Stace, Sally Britnell

RESOURCES

• www.theconversation.com/nz

• List of programmes and articles about the funding cuts

• Wikipedia

Media - ODT

The Otago Daily Times is a newspaper published by Allied Press Ltd in Dunedin, New Zealand. The ODT is one of the country's four main daily newspapers, serving the southern South Island with a circulation of around 26,000 and a combined print and digital annual audience of 304,000. Wikipedia

Owner(s): Allied Press

Founded: 1861

Circulation: 26,435 (2021)

Editor: Paul McIntyre

Format: Broadsheet

Published: Monday to Saturday

Reporters: Mark John, Fiona Ellis

RESOURCES

• www.odt.co.nz

• List of articles and programmes about the funding cuts

• Wikipedia

Media - Whanganui Chronicle

The Whanganui Chronicle is New Zealand's oldest newspaper. Based in Whanganui, it celebrated 160 years of publishing in September 2016. It is the main daily paper for the Whanganui, Ruapehu and Rangitīkei regions, including the towns of Patea, Waverley, Whanganui, Bulls, Marton, Raetihi, Ohakune and National Park. Wikipedia

Owner: NZ Herald

Circulation: 23,000 (2020)

Editor: Zaryd Wilson

Founded: 1856

Format:

• Compact (Monday-Friday)

• Broadsheet (Saturday)

Reporters: Liz Wylie

RESOURCES

• www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle

• List of articles and programmes about the funding cuts

• Wikipedia

Media - The Southland Times

The Southland Times is the regional daily paper for Southland, including Invercargill, and neighbouring parts of Otago, in New Zealand. It is now owned by media business Stuff Ltd, formerly the New Zealand division of Fairfax Media. Wikipedia

Owner: Fairfax Media

First issue date: 1862

Circulation: 23, 231

Format:

• Tabloid (Monday to Friday)

• Broadsheet (Saturday)

Editor: Natasha Holland

Reporters Louisa Steyl

RESOURCES

• www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times

• List of articles about the funding cuts

• Wikipedia