Media awards maestro roundly rejects sponsorship suspicions
“We don't see a problem because, as far as I know, we haven't had a problem,” Canon Media Awards organiser Rick Neville says.
Nick Grant Fri, 13 Oct 2017
“I do not accept that.”
That’s the emphatic reaction of NZ Newspaper Publishers’ Association’s editorial director Rick Neville to the concern that corporate sponsorship of journalism awards “potentially puts pressure on in unfortunate ways.”