After the abrupt resignation of Breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria, multiple women have accused him of sending inappropriate messages. Video / TVNZ
On Wednesday, the man in charge of TVNZ’s entire news operation resigned after an independent review of the hiring practices that brought now disgraced presenter Kamahl Santamaria to the station. Paul Yurisich had spent roughly 18 months as TVNZ’s head of new and current affairs, overseeing a “digital transformation” of the state broadcaster. In doing so, it’s claimed he ruffled the feathers of many long-standing TVNZ staff, leading to a series of disgruntled resignations.
It is impossible not to see Paul Yurisich’s demise at TVNZ as a direct result of hiring his former Al Jazeera colleague Kamahl Santamaria.
But TVNZ’s Auckland bureau was not a cohesive newsroom even before the MeToo controversy that engulfed the national news cycle for a…
