Radio station 'gutted' for publishing 'pro-Kremlin garbage'
RNZ, which is government-funded but has editorial independence, has now made corrections to the stories, indicating the editing had changed the original stories to present pro-Russian interpretations of some events in Ukraine as fact.
The station's chief executive Paul Thompson apologised to listeners, readers, staff and the Ukrainian community, and added:"It's so disappointing that this pro-Kremlin garbage has ended up in our stories... It's inexcusable." A digital journalist from RNZ has been placed on leave pending the result of an employment investigation.
The stories, most of which are over a year old, came from the Reuters news agency as wire copy, then were edited and published on the station's website, which ranks among the nation's most-viewed news sites. Typically one person at RNZ edited the copy as the stories had already been subject to robust editing, according to Mr Thompson.
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