Media watch had an interesting piece on this as well, with the take that the edits were likely less about propoganda and more just hamfisted and misguided efforts to try and insert "balance", without the understanding that Reuters has extremely strong editorial practices and don't need balancing.

While the RNZ scandel is a giant fuckup, I still trust RNZ as this is clearly a rogue staff member operating against the organisation, and RNZ are responding quickly, transparently and robustly.

Someone call me a shill.