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Broadcasting minister Kris Faafoi said the new fund will support “public interest journalism which would otherwise be at risk . . . to be produced and shared through New Zealand media outlets”.
He said it will be open to all media organisations - including local and regional ones and Māori, Pacific and ethnic media - and administered by the funding agency NZ on Air.
The money will be available over three years, with the first $10 million available in the current financial year and applications open from April.
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage website says it wants the new fund to be as inclusive as possible and include the likes of photojournalism, data journalism and investigative journalism.
By Cece Nunn, posted Jan 27, 2021
Wilmington-based fintech firm Apiture moved into Building 3 at the Live Oak Bank campus last year. (File photo) Officials with Wilmington-based Apiture, a financial technology firm that specializes in digital banking services, announced this week that the company has received a $10 million investment.
Bankers Healthcare Group (BHG) is the investor, according to a news release. BHG is a fintech firm that provides loans and other financial services to licensed health care practitioners and other highly skilled professionals, according to the firm s website.
The funding, finalized in December, comes in addition to the $20 million raised by Apiture in July 2020. Apiture plans to use the $10 million to accelerate key features on its product roadmap for 2021.
The media was again incredibly frustrating at the 4pm covid update yesterday, and in this mornings Herald.
Having Audrey Young doing a grumpy old woman routine asking the same gotcha question a million times ( why are we not told these business now? , and the switcheroo why were this businesses blindsided by releasing their information before informing them? ) was bad enough but her personal annoyance has become the subject of her piece this morning in the paper, where for some vague reason the PM needs to be involved to rev up the MOH over some quibble that Audrey doesn t like.
What is frustrating is ONE WHOLE YEAR after the COVID pandemic began the main media companies are STILL treating the pandemic as primarily a POLITICAL story, using courtier journalists who were excoriated by the public for their addiction to the gotcha dialogue of banter politics and viewing everything through the lens of horse race political analysis. Why was Audrey Young there? Why has the NZ Herald stil
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Interestingly that article starts with a description of appallingly bad safety standards at a major petrochem site in the 1960 s. Yet remarkably everything has changed in the 50 years since; the events he describes are pretty much unthinkable in a developed country today.
In particular:
One day, Sherman was standing in a room, leaning over a large pipe to check a filter, when an operator in a distant control room mistakenly turned a knob, sending hot, almond-smelling, liquid chlorinated hydrocarbons coursing through the pipe, drenching him
I worked for decades in that control room, always aware that I could kill or main with a bad or unlucky decision. Yet the technology advanced dramatically, giving us tools and platforms that properly implemented, making incidents like the above orders of magnitude less likely. Organisations soon realised that investing in safety tech actually saved them cash, and in the past decade virtually every major new in