Recent stories by me on other places on the internets:
Click here for a complete archive of stories I’ve written over at Radio New Zealand
And here’s a sample of my work since 2020 or so:
AAP Factcheck: Junk accounts serve up fantasy tennis tales
What would New Zealand recognising Palestinian statehood mean? (Radio New Zealand)
Review: Sex Pistols live in Auckland, April 2025 (RNZ)
How fried chicken food truck YFC ran afoul of KFC’s trademark lawyers (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: AI-generated Aboriginal art fakes ‘disrespectful and upsetting’
Everything you need to know about Superman on screen (Radio New Zealand)
Can US Customs legally search your phone and what can you do about it? (Radio New Zealand)
How to tell if an image or video has been created by AI – and if we still can (Radio New Zealand)
Can California leave the United States? What you need to know about secession (Radio New Zealand)
Run It: How a knock on the head can kill (Radio New Zealand)
Emergency Mobile Alerts: How they work and why you’re getting them (Radio New Zealand)
How a decade of Netflix changed how we watch TV forever (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: No, Flight MH370 hasn’t been found
Oscars 2025 predictions (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: California wildfire claims get it wrong on Co2 emissions
The summer I moved to New York (Radio New Zealand)
15 American political movies to watch instead of doomscrolling (Radio New Zealand)
‘Terrified’ – Americans in NZ react to Trump shooting, Biden worries (Radio New Zealand)
Could Biden quit? It’s happened before (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: Robert Irwin arrest faked in Facebook scam
Book Review: Everest Inc by Will Cockrell (NZ Listener)
What we’re watching: Chicken Nugget (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: Parody mistaken as reality in Putin posts
What we’re watching: The Great (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: NZ Prime Minister’s speech manipulated
Oscars 2024: Snubs, predictions and NZ nominations (Radio New Zealand)
My Hometown: Nevada County, California (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: ‘Bitcoin traders’ use famous faces to lure investors
How Thanksgiving became a “Friendsgiving” for Americans living abroad (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: NZ vaccine deaths claim lacks any evidence
NZ authors and book lovers share their favourite New Zealand reads (Radio New Zealand)
Why New Zealand is still in love with used book fairs (Radio New Zealand)
How to survive a 24-hour movie marathon (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: Studies reject repeated shots at blaming vaccines for autism
Smokin’: US-style barbecue restaurants heat up in New Zealand (Radio New Zealand)
How to live your best life at the New Zealand International Film Festival (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: Video exposes lunacy of NASA fakery claim
‘Shakespeare’s about real people’ (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: Cold, hard facts sink Antarctic ice claim
AA Factcheck: Truth gored in post about horned shaman’s release
‘I’ve done it all’ – Sir Rod Stewart on getting older and staying fit (Radio New Zealand)
Down into the disaster zone: Cyclone Gabrielle (Radio New Zealand)
Pavement return to NZ, celebrating Flying Nun’s influence (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: Bell tolls for nonsense sovereign citizen road tolls claim
‘The best book I read this year is…’ (Radio New Zealand)
How to become a film expert over the summer holidays (Radio New Zealand)
12 TV series you may have missed in the age of peak content (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: Sovereign citizen a victim of deluded fantasy
Book review link: Best Books of 2022 and Mensun Bound’s The Ship Beneath The Ice
Review: Midnight Oil burns bright on final tour (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: Treaty remains the same regardless of New Zealand’s name
AAP Factcheck: Face mask hygiene study hijacked by dirty claim
Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale on their sudden rise to fame (Radio New Zealand)
Book reviews link: With A Mind To Kill by Anthony Horowitz; Straits: Beyond The Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
AAP Factcheck: Island bunker image is a dose of fantasy
AAP Factcheck: Party On! Constitution claim judged to be utter nonsense
AAP Factcheck: Murdoch media ban a tall tale from across the Tasman
AAP Factcheck: Claims Jacinda Ardern stole speech from a movie are un-bee-lievable
Yesterday was New Zealand’s January 6. What happens now? (Radio New Zealand)
NFTs: Gimmicky status symbol or tech revolution zeitgeist? (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: Brutal Aztec pandemic claim sacrifices the truth
Going home in the age of Omicron (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: Smallpox eradication claim denies vaccine evidence
AAP Factcheck: Video airs false claims about face masks and respiratory diseases
Misinformation pandemic will endure longer than Delta variant (Radio New Zealand) (Also published at New Zealand Herald and Newshub)
AAP Factcheck: Long-touted COVID-19 ‘survival rate’ figure is overdue to expire
Ten streaming picks to get you through lockdown
AAP Factcheck: Yes, viruses can evolve to become more deadly
AAP Factcheck: Wild claims about CDC PCR alert don’t pass the test
AAP Factcheck: Those viral posts are just no use, no one is cancelling Dr Seuss
AAP Factcheck: Post tying NZ vaccine program to dire population warning full of falsehoods
Trump loses control of his own deluded narrative (Radio New Zealand) (also at Newsroom)
Opinion: The one word that really matters for US election day (Radio New Zealand)
Amy Coney Barrett appointment all about the politics (Radio New Zealand)
Why being an American in New Zealand right now is kind of heartbreaking (Radio New Zealand)
Finding a community in isolation: Amanda Palmer (Radio New Zealand)
Why America just can’t quit its gun problem (Radio New Zealand)
AAP Factcheck: Claims on CDC COVID-19 data incorrect
AAP Factcheck: Masks can’t make you sicker – Experts
AAP Factcheck: Post misleads on Australian COVID deaths
AAP Factcheck: Nasal swabs can’t harm the brain, doctors say
Blood clot danger: How I nearly died and what happened next (Radio New Zealand) (also published at Stuff)
Bird of the Year competition: Keeping the good vibe flying high (Radio New Zealand)
California’s fires and why New Zealand should worry too (New Zealand Herald)
Pop-Up Globe brought Shakespeare to life in New Zealand (Radio New Zealand)
New Zealand’s media landscape: ‘The future isn’t advertising’ (Stuff)
Ouch – online shopping just got painful (Stuff)
Boomers represent one-third of New Zealand’s disposable income spending (Stuff)
Let’s do the time warp again – the classic films coming to a cinema near you (New Zealand Herald)
Spark’s first big test: How did it fare? (Stuff)
A tribute to MAD Magazine (The Spinoff)
Stranger Things 3 and growing up in the ’80s (Radio New Zealand)
Donald Trump could actually win (2016) (The Spinoff)
Nik Dirga 