RNZ Senior Manager, Carol Hirschfeld, has resigned over a meeting she had with the Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran last December.
The meeting has already attracted political criticism from National, as it was not included in the minister's diary. The RNZ Chief Executive Paul Thompson says Ms Hirschfeld had repeatedly assured him that as Head of News, her meeting with Clare Curran last December was coincidental and that she and the Minister had talked after bumping into each other by chance in a Wellington cafe. Mr Thompson says however, Ms Hirschfeld told him on Sunday the meeting had been pre-arranged. RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson discusses the implications.
