Thursday, 15 July 2021, 2:33 pm
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