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The Media Innovation Lab

18 December 2025

UC’s Media Innovation Lab hosts experiments in public storytelling by some of Aotearoa’s top journalists and documentary-makers. Our journalists in residence produce content you’ll find on leading media outlets.

HOW TO APPLY

Our vision

Media producers face a challenge. How do they tell important stories and bring people together in public debate in a world of low trust and technological disruption? How does an industry with limited resources find the time and space to reinvent itself and reach beyond shrinking audiences?

The Lab funds multiple professional residencies per year. Within the lab, media professionals can step away from daily deadlines to think big and to work creatively. It provides innovative content for media organisations. It enables applied research on pubic communication.

Lab members

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