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RNZ journalists have won seven Voyager Media Awards tonight, dominating the podcast categories and taking home the Best Team Investigation prize.
RNZ s Voyager Awards winners (clockwise from top left) - Junior reporter of the year Te Aniwa Hurihanganui; best narrative podcast Getting Better; student journalist of the year Louise Ternouth; best episodic podcast Black Sheep; best first-person essay winner Veronica Schmidt; and best innovation in digital storytelling winner Game Change.
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The annual awards celebrate the best in print, digital and broadcast journalism on all media platforms across New Zealand and were handed out in Auckland this evening.
The media industry judges acknowledged that it had been an unprecedented year for Aotearoa/ New Zealand and journalists were at the forefront of it all, telling high calibre, engaging stories.
Sharon Brettkelly of Newsroom.co.nz05:00, May 26 2021
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The Detail asks how an ex-govt worker who planted cameras in changing rooms could have risen to be head of a crown entity using name suppression.
Phillip Barnes has finally been named as the crown entity boss who secretly filmed people in a gym s changing room. But it was a strikingly similar case involving an investigative journalist that helped lead to his identity being made public. RNZ s executive editor of long form journalism, Veronica Schmidt, reveals to
The Detail how her investigation into Barnes started when she published her own personal experience of being secretly filmed undressed in a changing room.
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How a pervert who planted hidden cameras in Auckland gym changing room became CEO of a crown entity • Source:
How could Phillip Barnes, a man who planted a camera in a gym changing room, be promoted to chief executive of a Crown entity? Phillip Barnes was wrestling with alcohol issues and a porn addiction. Source: rnz.co.nz
By Veronica Schmidt of rnz.co.nz
The police who turned up at International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ) wore plain clothes. They discreetly presented the warrant, asked for USB sticks and entered the general manager s office. But it s hard to fly under the radar in a country as small as New Zealand.