Media Insider: RNZ’s former audit and risk committee chair Jane Wrightson on $11.8m fiscal hole: ‘It’s devastating’

NZME Editor-at-Large·NZ Herald·9 Nov, 2026 10:29 PM8 mins to read‌Members of RNZ's audit and risk committee in 2025/26, from left: Andrew Szusterman, committee chair Gracie MacKinlay, former committee chair Jane Wrightson, Jim Mather, and Mads Moller. Meanwhile, RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson, right, is door-stopped by RNZ Checkpoint host Lisa Owen.Some of New Zealand’s leading business and broadcast names were members of RNZ’s audit and risk committee in 2025/26 - how did they not pick up an almost $12 million fiscal hole? Meanwhile, pressure mounts on the CEO. The former chair of RNZ’s audit and risk committee says an unexpected