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ABC News
3 days ago
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Lucy Sweeney
Lucy Sweeney is a digital journalist with the ABC's climate and regional team, based in Brisbane. Since joining the ABC in 2013, she has worked as a digital producer, live blogger, writer and editor covering international news and events, federal politics, health, science, entertainment and pop culture.
ABC News
26-05-2025
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Prue Bentley
Prue has produced and presented ABC local radio programs across Australia and news programs syndicated to the Asia-Pacific. She is the Editor for ABC Ballarat and Southwest Victoria, overseeing the development of broadcast and digital content for two regional Victorian bureaus. She believes in the power of conversations to bring people together on important issues, and the value of local news and radio to shine a light on the diversity of regional living.
RNZ News
22-05-2025
- Business
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Budget 2025: More money for journalists, less for RNZ
RNZ will have its budget cut by $18m over four years. Photo: RNZ / Diego Opatowski The government is putting more money into hiring local journalists, but cutting Radio New Zealand's (RNZ) budget. Budget 2025 includes $6.4 million over four years to hire journalists in heartland New Zealand for reporting on councils and courts. Minister for Media and Communications Paul Goldsmith said the funding will help communities stay informed and hold decision-makers to account. "It will get funding into regional newsrooms so that more local frontline journalists can report on the things that matter to their audiences." The money will expand two existing programmes - Local Democracy Reporting and Open Justice - which the minister said had an emphasis on "reporting, rather than opinion". At the same time, RNZ will have its budget cut by $18m over four years - $4.6m a year - around 7 percent of its current $67m allocation. Goldsmith said the savings would recognise that government-funded media needed to deliver the same efficiency and value as the rest of the public sector. "I expect RNZ to improve audience reach, trust and transparency. I am confident the organisation can do so while operating in a period of tightened fiscal constraint." The minister said RNZ had had funding increases in recent years, including a $26m boost in 2023 and $7.3m in 2020. In a statement, RNZ board chair Jim Mather said the organisation was "naturally disappointed" but it "acknowledged the government's fiscal challenges at present as well as the headwinds affecting the wider media sector". RNZ will review its plans. Away from funding allocation, Goldsmith said he was considering submissions on media reform. He would have more information in the "coming months". The minister said media were facing significant challenges and needed modern legislation to keep the sector financially sustainable.
