BusinessDesk wins best feature category at NZSA awards

BusinessDesk journalist Cécile Meier. (Image: BD)

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

BusinessDesk journalist Cécile Meier has gone back-to-back at the New Zealand Shareholders’ Association business journalism awards, winning the best feature category at Thursday evening’s prizegiving in Auckland.Meier received the feature writing award for her two-part investigation into Early Childhood Education and its winners and losers. The award follows last year's achievement when she won the business news award for her work on the Ministry of Health’s Te Whatu Ora’s consultant spend.NZ Herald inves...

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