Inside RNZ: Slack Editorial Practices and Management Failure

Sources within RNZ reveal concerns about a lack of management oversight and a decline in editorial standards that have contributed to the scandal relating to its editing of wire service stories.

Last week saw the national broadcaster RNZ launch a review after it emerged that a number of Reuters and BBC stories about the Ukraine-Russia war had been altered to include pro-Russia sentiment. It soon became apparent that stories covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, China and gender identity issues had also been subject to unauthorised editing.