Dear Ministry for Culture and Heritage,

NZ on Air, which falls under your ministry, is tasked with administering the Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF). Stuff Limited received funding for a 'documentary' that was funded by PIJF. It was called Fire and Fury. https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2022/08...

Please provide information or answer the following questions:

1.) please provide in unredacted form all meeting minutes, or emails relating to the application for funding, including all applications, proposals or grant submissions made by Stuff Limited for the production of Fire and Fury.

2.) please provide internal policies or criteria that are used by PIJF to review applications for funding. This is to include the conditions or reasons for why funding is declined or granted.

3.) please provide in unredacted form all meeting minutes, emails relating to the approval of funding by PIJF to Stuff Limited for the production of Fire and Fury. Including all contracts, agreements, conditions finalised as part of funding.

to include, but not limited to:
Melissa Dobson (communications)
Candice Dobson (communications)
Courtney Grenfell (legal)
Terence Taylor (exec producer)
Louisa Cleave (researcher / producer)
Paula Penfold (researcher / reporter)
Lovella Aninon (finance)

4.) please provide internal polices or criteria about how PIJF qualitatively reviews, or safety checks the content that it's funding has created.

5.) please provide in unredacted form all meeting minutes, emails, forms or resources used to qualitatively review and safety check the Fire and Fury 'documentary' before it was approved to be published publicly.

Yours faithfully,

Damien De Ment

Dear OIA,

Can my OIA please be transferred to NZ on Air. Thank you

Yours sincerely,

Damien De Ment

Dear OIA,

I have withdrawn this request to this ministry as OIA suggested the direct authority of NZ on Air would be more appropriate.

Yours sincerely,

Damien De Ment