Reserve Bank bans MediaWorks from media conferences after lockup leak

Reserve Bank bans MediaWorks from media conferences after lockup leak
Jonathan Underhill
By Jonathan Underhill May 6 (BusinessDesk) - The Reserve Bank has banned MediaWorks from its media conferences until further notice as punishment for its journalists leaking sensitive market information from the Official Cash Rate cut decision in March. The bank hired Deloitte’s forensic unit to investigate the leak after details were posted by a blogger. That investigation found that a Newshub Mediaworks reporter secretly sent details of the decision to workers in the Newshub office from the RBNZ lockup, where journalists had long been a...