27 Mar 2014

Te Manu Korihi News for 27 March 2014

From Checkpoint, 6:48 pm on 27 March 2014

The new chief executive of Maori Television says he isn't fazed by past concerns held by staff, who urged the channel's board not to appoint him; An international petition has been launched to save the country's only Maori Centre of Research Excellence; The Maori Broadcasting funding agency is breaking new ground and says it's taking a risk by financially supporting an initiative for Maori programmes to be created, but only for online viewers; The New South Wales Maori Wardens aims to help troubled rangatahi Maori in Sydney.