John Campbell

Journalist. Chief Correspondent @TVNZ. Previously, host of @Breakfaston1, @CheckpointRNZ, 3 News & Campbell Live. (Proud of that team work.) Personal account.

[John Campbell @JohnJCampbell]

Waitangi 2026.

Being there.

And all the things, from fatigue (and even ennui), to hope, to mana motuhake, it contained...

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@therealgregjack 💔

I'm so sorry.

She was a wonderful person, Greg. Who was so brave (about so many exhausting things) for so long.

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@ollybarratt @radionz That was fantastic, Olly. Thank you.

[WHITE FERNS @WHITE_FERNS]

News | Suzie Bates, a WHITE FERNS great and one of the most decorated cricketers in the world, will retire from international cricket at the conclusion of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup in England.

More 👉 https://t.co/7xd3RdXEyd

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@WebTaniwha @radionz Ngā mihi nui, Jason. I really appreciate that. I'm so loving being part of the MR team.

Kia pai te rā, JD. JC. 🥹

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@missispoi @Gregatnelson ☺️

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Forty fucking years ago, @richlangston2 started a fanzine called Garage. He bashed it out on a typewriter in the Dunedin Library. Stapled the pages together. He so knew that the music his mates were making was rare and special and ours. And now, this. What a treat, RL. Magic. ♥️

[Helen Clark @HelenClarkNZ]

The International Commission against the Death Penalty has expressed serious concerns at proposal to enact #deathpenalty legislation in Israel. This law has now passed; it applies the death penalty to #Palestinians only. Abhorrent & discriminatory. https://t.co/2VoCbbZo0X @ICOMDP

[Amnesty International USA @amnestyusa]

Israel is brazenly granting itself carte blanche to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards.

The new law dismantles fundamental safeguards to prevent the arbitrary deprivation of life and protect the right to a fair trial. It further empowers Israel’s system of apartheid, which is maintained by scores of discriminatory laws against Palestinians.

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[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: It’s a journocide. Israel admits to targeting & killing three more journalists & making up false evidence.

Journalists in the west have a moral responsibility to speak up. The blowback from this impunity is coming next for us all.
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[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Israel has just killed Lebanese journalist Fatima Ftouni. I am honoured to have known her.

Just at the beginning of the month she reported on Israel killing seven members of her own family live on air.

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3. ...some of the comments were...

"... in many instances highly pejorative and offensive and... patently wrong."

And... this "wholy unsuccessful" defamation action taken by Julian Batchelor was financially backed by NZME director Jim Grenon.

[John Campbell @JohnJCampbell]

Opinion: What I learned from Julian Batchelor’s defamation case against TVNZ

By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui...

https://t.co/4cI1MmsuI1

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2. A reminder...

This defamation case, signicantly against the work of an outstanding, young Māori journalist, was taken by a man the Court described as having made "sustained" "comments" "over a significant period of time, deliberately targeting Māori..."

The Court found...

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Stripping family background details from court reports an 'injustice' - advocates.

"Brooking was "stunned" when alerted to the change... "devastated."

Elizabeth Hall... "alcohol and drug addiction issues are often a symptom of... trauma."

(From RNZ.)
https://t.co/nbkmYZVyR2

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@JoelMacManus Real, real good.

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@RexWiderstrom Truly, Rex. She sparkled.

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1. Truly, a joy of a woman.

Funny, naughty, fearless, generous, quick...

And so good at her many jobs...
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[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Americans need to know which officials traded stocks before Trump posted about Iran last night.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

one of the media's major failures is not questioning the president seriously. if/when he insults a reporter they sit quietly like frightened children hoping not to be scolded. if he replies to a question by deflecting it, ask the question again; ask follow-up questions. UK journalists are skilled at this. without a courageous press, any authoritarian will walk all over them & hold them in contempt.
journalism isn't supposed to be about being "liked"--rather, representing ordinary citizens who do not have access to persons of power.

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@LaurieFleming I don't recall the end, LF. 🥹

But I think I only interviewed him once? So, yeah?!

It's funny. Just the vibe remains. How it turned after Catherine's exhortation.

The bit I think I remember was his childhood sense of the fancy world as not being for kids like him, and then...