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Jesson Funding Survives After Public Journalism Fund Axed
Saturday, 20 May 2023, 4:54 pm | Bruce Jesson Foundation
The independent Bruce Jesson Foundation journalism funding will continue after the government’s public interest journalism fund closes next month. The tiny Jesson Foundation, supported by private donations, is again offering $4000 this year to ... More >>
Tenancy Law Investigation Wins 2022 Jesson Journalism Award
Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 9:45 am | Bruce Jesson Foundation
An investigation which exposed the failure of New Zealand’s regulation of rental housing has won this year’s Bruce Jesson Emerging Journalism Award. Massey University journalism students Mary Argue, James Pocock and Lucy Revill found that many Wellington ... More >>
Rethinking New Zealand’s Constitution
Wednesday, 28 September 2022, 2:55 pm | Bruce Jesson Foundation
A senior legal expert is calling for a fundamental rethink of New Zealand’s constitution in the light of the “illegitimacy” of the British Crown’s claim to sovereignty over this country. Associate Professor Claire Charters chaired the working group ... More >>
Reminder - Unique Journalism Award Open For Applications
Wednesday, 31 August 2022, 6:35 pm | Bruce Jesson Foundation
Applications for a unique award fostering critical journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand are closing soon. The Bruce Jesson Journalism Award, unlike any other journalism award in this country, provides up to $4000 up-front to fund the time and resources ... More >>
Unique Journalism Award Open For Applications
Wednesday, 26 May 2021, 6:13 pm | Bruce Jesson Foundation
A unique award fostering critical journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand is now open for applications. The Bruce Jesson Journalism Award, unlike any other journalism award in this country, provides up to $4000 up-front to fund the time and resources ... More >>
Sinead Boucher To Deliver 2020 Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture
Monday, 30 November 2020, 9:22 am | Bruce Jesson Foundation
Sinead Boucher, the journalist who bought Stuff, New Zealand's biggest media company1, for $1 will deliver this year's Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, 1st of December. Quality journalism has long sat at the heart of the democratic process ... More >>
Sinead Boucher To Deliver 2020 Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture
Sunday, 22 November 2020, 2:58 pm | Bruce Jesson Foundation
Sinead Boucher, the journalist who bought Stuff, New Zealand's biggest media company1, for $1 will deliver this year's Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture. Quality journalism has long sat at the heart of the democratic process – with a commitment to uncover ... More >>
Russel Norman to deliver 2019 Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture
Monday, 30 September 2019, 8:32 pm | Bruce Jesson Foundation
The former Green Party co-leader, who labelled his successor James Shaw’s Zero Carbon Bill as “toothless” when it was released in May, has titled his lecture: “Will the Zero Carbon Act really cut emissions? What institutional change does ... More >>
Levin journalist wins 2018 Bruce Jesson journalism award
Wednesday, 24 October 2018, 9:56 am | Bruce Jesson Foundation
Levin journalist Aaron Smale has won this year's Bruce Jesson journalism award to fund research into abuse of patients at the former Lake Alice mental hospital near Marton. More >>
Frontline housing worker to give 2018 Bruce Jesson Lecture
Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 1:05 pm | Bruce Jesson Foundation
Frontline social housing worker Bernie Smith will examine how to restore secure housing for all New Zealanders in this year’s Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture on October 23. More >>
Frontline housing worker to give Bruce Jesson Lecture
Friday, 7 September 2018, 11:12 am | Bruce Jesson Foundation
Frontline social housing worker Bernie Smith will examine how to restore secure housing for all New Zealanders in this year’s Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture on October 23. More >>
Tūhoe leader Tāmati Kruger to deliver Bruce Jesson Lecture
Tuesday, 7 November 2017, 5:20 pm | Bruce Jesson Foundation
A leader of the Tūhoe people’s drive for self-determination, Tamati Kruger, will give the 2017 Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture on 31 October. More >>
Tūhoe leader Tāmati Kruger to give 2017 Bruce Jesson Lecture
Tuesday, 8 August 2017, 2:06 pm | Bruce Jesson Foundation
Tūhoe leader Tāmati Kruger to give 2017 Bruce Jesson Lecture A leader of the Tūhoe people’s drive for self-determination, Tamati Kruger, will give the 2017 Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture on 31 October. More >>
Story on lack of military home support wins journalism award
Monday, 21 November 2016, 1:55 pm | Bruce Jesson Foundation
Emerging Journalism Award for 2016 awarded for story on lack of home support for military More >>
Entries Open for 2016 Jesson Journalism Awards
Friday, 8 April 2016, 10:59 am | Bruce Jesson Foundation
In today’s media world of celebrity and “click-bait”, the Bruce Jesson Journalism Grants are deliberately seeking something different. More >>
Surveillance film & Living Wage report win 2015 Jesson award
Friday, 23 October 2015, 2:41 pm | Bruce Jesson Foundation
A documentary film about New Zealand’s role in the Five Eyes global surveillance network and a Living Wage feasibility report are the co-winners of this year’s senior Bruce Jesson Journalism Awards. More >>
The future of business journalism
Monday, 12 October 2015, 10:51 am | Bruce Jesson Foundation
The feeble state of business journalism in New Zealand and around the world is but a subset of journalism’s general decline. To try to survive financially, many media organisations are increasingly blurring the distinction between journalism and advertising, ... More >>
Rod Oram to deliver the 2015 Bruce Jesson Lecture
Tuesday, 22 September 2015, 4:21 pm | Bruce Jesson Foundation
The feeble state of business journalism in New Zealand and around the world is but a subset of journalism’s general decline. To try to survive financially, many media organisations are increasingly blurring the distinction between journalism and advertising, ... More >>
Entries Open for 2015 Jesson Journalism Awards
Thursday, 2 April 2015, 4:43 pm | Bruce Jesson Foundation
Have you got a journalistic project that you want to complete, but can’t get enough money or time to do it? If so, a Bruce Jesson journalism award may be able to help. Applications for the 2015 awards are now open, and close on Friday 18 September. More >>
Bruce Jesson Awards
Monday, 15 December 2014, 11:33 am | Bruce Jesson Foundation
• The Senior Journalism Award of $4000 for a proposed work of "critical, informed, analytical and creative journalism or writing that will contribute to public debate in NZ on an important issue or issues" was awarded to Max Rashbrooke for an ... More >>