FAREWELL TO TIM PANKHURST

Dominion Post editor Tim Pankhurst is leaving the job after seven years. Pankhurst has an excellent track record for supporting and encouraging investigative work, including the long-running Louise Nicholas story, the Donna Awatere fraud story, and some good work on the Winston Peters and Vela Brothers saga late last year. Investigative reporting is time and resource consuming and therefore expensive, and Pankhurst is to be commended for his efforts in this area. Pankhurst is leaving to run the Newspaper Publishers' Association. I wish him well, and hope the Dom Post continues to do well in his absence.