Strypey on Nostr: For years, the problem with public funding of journalism in Aotearoa was the same as ...

For years, the problem with public funding of journalism in Aotearoa was the same as the problem with public funding of software development worldwide; only providing one-off grants for projects, when what need funding is *teams*.

More recently, things like the Public Interest Journalism Fund have stretched to salaries for
individual journalists. But no amount of severed fingers make a hand, and no number of individually-funded journalists add up to a newsroom.

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