International acclaim for newsroom diversity push waateanews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from waateanews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Press Release – NZ On Air
Around 40% of the first funding round for Public Interest Journalism has gone to projects benefitting Māori journalism.
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.
The first funding round of $9.6m has just been awarded by NZ On Air, and $3.5m from the first round will go to projects with a Māori journalism impact (with a further $1.6m already committed for a second year in one large-scale project.)
The
Te Rito training programme will provide the country’s first comprehensive Māori and diverse voices journalism cadetship scheme to train and hire 25 new journalists.
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
Thursday, 15 July 2021, 2:35 pm
Around 40% of the first funding round for Public Interest
Journalism has gone to projects benefitting Māori
journalism.
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.
The first funding round
of $9.6m has just been awarded by NZ On Air, and $3.5m from
the first round will go to projects with a Māori journalism
impact (with a further $1.6m already committed for a second
year in one large-scale project.)
The
Te Rito
training programme will provide the country’s first