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Kaitohutohu Ārahi, te Ture Pārongo Ōkawa | Lead Advisor Official Correspondence 
Te Urūngi | Organisational Strategy & Performance
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From: Jai Ganesh <[FOI #21445 email]>
Sent: Saturday, 17 December 2022 11:53 pm
To: OIA <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Information on NZ gov + PR, media and influencers

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Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

Could you please provide the following information.
It largely relates to how the government is spending money, and its actions in relation to public relations and information handling - which should be transparent processes.

1. Re: Press support employed by the office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

i. How many full time people or agencies have been employed by the NZ government to liaise with the press or deal with the press in any way (either social media or main stream media or any other form of media), or who have supported such operations - on a yearly basis for the past 5 years? If agencies, who are they?

i.a. How much has been paid on salaries or fees per year for this over the past 5 years?

ii. How much has been paid per year for salaries or fees for part time press support for each year over the past 10 years?

iii. Please provide the numbers of people who do the above on a contracted basis, including:

a. their names, and
b. the amount paid to the top 5 press contractors per year on a yearly basis for the past 5 years and c. the total amount paid to such contractors for each of the past
5 years

iv. How much has been paid overall for press activities (including salaries as well as money paid for various public relation and press type services) for each of the last 5 years?

2. Re: Senior Press support employed by the NZ Prime Minister and Cabinet

Please provide each of the following:
i. the names,
ii. roles,
iii. salaries and
iv. bonuses
of the senior press support persons or agencies employed by the NZ Prime Minister and Cabinet for each of the last 5 years.

3. How much money was paid per year for each of the past 5 years by the NZ government for any reason to the following papers (including their online version) to each of the following by the NZ government?
i. The New Zealand Herald
ii. stuff.co.nz
iii. The Spinoff
iv. The Otago Daily Times
v. Herald on Sunday

4. How much money was paid per year for each of the past 5 years by the NZ government for any reason to TV stations? (Please list by TV station and amount.)

5. How much money was paid per year for each of the past 5 years by the NZ government for any reason to radio stations? (Please list by radio station and amount.)

6. How much money was paid per year for each of the past 5 years by the NZ government for any reason to bloggers and influencers? (Please list by blog name [and owner] and the amount.)5

7. Re: Social media management
i. How much money per year for each of the past 5 years has been spent on social media management?

ii. What did social media management consist of?

iii. What were the top 5 social media sites with which the government Press support liaised with?

iv. Who were the liaisons

v. Please provide communications related to Covid-19 and 'misinformation' between the liaisons and the platforms.

Yours faithfully,

Jai Ganesh

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