Huge sums in subsidies will go to Amazon when a Lord of the Rings series is made here in the years to come. In the year just gone, a much more modest amount of public money was spent helping local media companies through the worst of the Covid crisis. Mediawatch talks to Stuff's Thomas Coughlan, who deployed the Official Information Act to follow the money.
Thomas Coughlan's revelations of the deal done with Amazon on the front page of The Press. Photo: PHOTO / RNZ Mediawatch
