A senior Cabinet minister has confirmed the board chair of public broadcaster TVNZ discussed concerns about its journalists’ reporting of crime statistics, in a private call days before the outlet ran a follow-up story to outline the Government’s successes.
Labour leader Chris Hipkins says any board member who was involved in the decision to run the additional story should resign immediately, given the need for editorial independence.
On Wednesday morning, Newsroom reported on 1News’ highly unusual decision to run a belated story covering the fall in the number of victims of violent crime over the past two years as announced by the Government last week.
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