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 …
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.
Press Release – NZ On Air Around 40% of the first funding round for Public Interest Journalism has gone to projects benefitting Mori journalism. Established in February with a $55m government allocation to NZ On Air, the fund aims to support at-risk public interest journalism, …
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.)
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Hate speech regulation is hard to get right. As media law specialist Steven Price has pointed out, the challenge for a democratic society lies in targeting the harm hate speech is claimed to do while not capturing other legitimate forms of speech too broadly.
It s true, the scope, enforcement and effectiveness of hate speech law must be calibrated carefully. But these are practical and mechanical questions about how hate speech laws might operate, not assertions that the harm in hate speech is something the law cannot regulate.
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A sharp spike in respiratory syncytial virus – a
highly-contagious, flu-like illness – is especially
affecting kids and babies, and stretching hospital emergency
departments.
What are the impacts of this outbreak for
New Zealand’s health services now, and how would services
cope with a COVID-19 outbreak in the community?
The
SMC asked experts to comment on the situation.
Natalie
Anderson, Senior Lecturer and Bachelor of Nursing Year 2
Director, School of Nursing, University of Auckland,
comments:
“The sharp rise in the number of young
children sick with RSV has overwhelmed our Emergency
Departments (EDs) this week, with many experiencing a record