Mastodawn

"[&] People with their own serious stories, who have been messaging off and on for months, ... are finally ready to speak. They text. They email. They DM. They Signal. They WhatsApp. They Viber. But I had zero capacity. I couldn’t open them. That feels awful, because I know roughly what’s in them, and how many more failures there are."

- @paulapenfold

#NZPol #NZMedia #BehindTheNews #PaulaPenfold

https://paulapenfold.substack.com/p/the-truth-came-out-this-week

The truth came out. But not on its own.

Behind the scenes of one of the biggest stories I can remember.

Not The News - with Paula Penfold

Marsden Nov 16

"Some weeks in journalism feel much bigger than the people doing the work, than any one newsroom or byline or reporter. This was one of those weeks.
...
There is a direct line .... to the public now seeing the truth, which didn’t surface on its own. People had to push it there. Detectives. Journalists. Editors. Lawyers. Everyone who insisted on more than silence."