Charter and Principles of Radio New Zealand

Purpose

(1) As an independent public service broadcaster, the public radio company’s purpose is to serve the public interest.

(2) Freedom of thought and expression are foundations of democratic society and the public radio company as a public service broadcaster plays an essential role in exercising these freedoms.  

New Zealanders For Julian Assange are concerned about the lack of in-depth reporting on this pivotal case and the absence of any investigation into the evidence of a wide range of excesses and abuses of power that indirectly affect and should be of concern to New Zealanders.   Following complaints we made to them, Radio New Zealand journalists did conduct about 5 very good long-form interviews with people involved in the case but they have continued to omit any mention of several developments that would have been of interest to the New Zealand public. For the most part, any reporting on the case of Julian Assange has been from reports passed on to them by agencies such as Reuters or Associated Press.    ( February 2024 ).  
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