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# The PIJF Comes to a Close
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-pijf-comes-to-a-close/
- Published: 2023-07-23T22:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-23T04:28:02.000Z
- Author: idbkiwi
- Tags: Media, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

Good gig, if you can get it: yes! $6,328,804.00 of your money, lifted directly from your wallets, to pour into *Stuff*’s coffers for the Public Interest Journalism Fund. Put another way: more than 11 per cent of the entire PIJF ‘funding’ to one company: the company commonly agreed as most left-leaning in the country.

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Everyone knows facts don’t matter at *Stuff*, despite their ‘fact-check’ project “The Whole Truth” so it’s no surprise to see their list of funds received amounting to less than the whole truth, disclosing only $5,159,871.00 received for their inventive ‘projects’, while failing to disclose $214,360.00 for PlayStuff, Whakaata Maori, $300,800.00 for Training: Maori-lens Journalism, sorry – that’s “Multi-lens”, (but means the same thing) – and $653,773.00 for Kea Kids News. Their largest item, no surprises here, $2,789,240.00 for Pou Tiaki described as a project “To uplift the voices and stories of Maori and minority groups across *Stuff* publications.”

“Joanna Norris, managing director at *Stuff* Masthead Publishing, said the fund had enabled *Stuff* to hire some great journalists into the business, and she appreciated the skills they had brought with them.” Well, that’s debatable Ms Norris, highly debatable, but I would happily bet that any employer gifted $6,328,804.00 would be able to hire some great people.

Don’t die laughing at the closing paragraph: “Unfortunately the PIJF, as a consequence, was used to criticise, unfairly, the media, with the implication that \[funding by the government\] was somehow able to influence the media, which is absolutely untrue, and we remain absolutely independent.” Of course you are Ms Norris: $6,328,804.00 independent.

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