Press Release – NZ On Air
Stories examining issues of importance to a wide range of communities, and programmes designed to upskill and increase the number of journalists are among projects approved in the inaugural round of the Public Interest Journalism Fund.
Established in February with a $55m government allocation to NZ On Air, the fund aims to support at-risk public interest journalism, meeting local, regional and national audience needs.
In the first round a wide range of journalism projects from in-depth investigations to a proposal to revisit the impactful
Inside Child Poverty documentary 10 years since it first aired have been supported. Also funded is a bilingual Te Reo Māori weekly newspaper supplement and a year-long in-depth look at the lives of teenagers coming of age in a pandemic.