Radio NZ appoints panel to investigate news edits

Radio NZ appoints panel to investigate news edits
More stories are likely to be discovered as part of an audit. (Image: RNZ)
Daniel Dunkley
Radio New Zealand has appointed a three-person panel to investigate how pro-Russia, pro-China, and other "inappropriate" edits were made to international stories on the RNZ website.Media law expert Willy Akel, public law specialist and former journalist Linda Clark, and Alan Sunderland, a former director of editorial standards at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, will lead the review.Terms of reference were agreed by the Radio NZ board last night. The investigation will look at how syndicated Reuters and BBC stories were change...

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