Peter Griffin

Guest writer

Peter Griffin is Director of the Science Media Centre and the founder and editor of Sciblogs. Prior to founding the SMC, he was Technology Editor of the New Zealand Herald. Peter was the 2012 Fulbright-Harkness Fellow and undertook research in the US looking at centres of excellence in public interest journalism.

Pictured: a mobile phone customer checking his bill after falling for the Robocall scam (iStock)

The rise of the robocall: how to fight back against the scammers

Have you had a scammer trying to get you with a robocall yet? Science and technology journalist Peter Griffin investigates the phenomenon.

By Peter Griffin | 10th April, 2018

The great NZ media mega-merger was never a sustainable option

The great NZ media mega-merger was never a sustainable option

The Commerce Commission was right to reject a bid by NZME-Fairfax that would have created a dominance unprecedented in a western democracy, and now the paywalls need to go up, writes Peter Griffin

By Peter Griffin | 3rd May, 2017