May 25, 2023
Staff retention problem for Māori media
Te Māngai Pāho chief executive Larry Parr says finding and retaining Māori speakers is a problem not just for Māori media but across the reo Māori ecosystem.
The $54 million earmerked for Maori in Budget 2023 includes $9 million for media training, as well as money for content creaton and to sustain the sector.
Mr Parr says it extends existing funding, which allows for multi-year planning.
He says workforce development and capacity building is critical, especially giving the demand for Maori speakers within education, government agencies and the private sector.
“There is a need for us to look at the whole ecosystem, not just the Maori media sector but the whole Maori language ecosystem to find the answers to that big problem of losing talent,” Mr Parr says.