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Adam Harley

Senior Editor, Nine Network Australia

Alex Coppel

Freelance Photographer

Alexi O'Brien

Senior Associate at Sherson Willis

Andrew Holden

Former Editor of The Press and Editor-in-Chief of The Age

Ben Stanley

Veteran US-based journalist

Bernadine Oliver Kerby

AM News/Sport Presenter

Briar McCormack

External Communications ANZ. Former Editor and Exec Producer at TVNZ

Carmen Parahi

Media Specialist, Te Amokura Consultants

Carolyn Luey

Chief Digital and Publishing Officer at NZME

Cate Brett

Director - Office of the Chief Justice

Charlotte Whale

Senior Consultant, Sandpiper Communications

Chris Hopkins

Photojournalist

Damien Venuto

Senior Account Director at One Plus One Communications

Darrian Traynor

Staff Photographer with Getty Images

Daryl Holden

Co-owner and Managing Editor at Ashburton Guardian

David Pope

Editorial Cartoonist, The Canberra Times and Australian Community Media

Drew Ambrose

Senior Producer and Foreign Correspondent, Al Jazeera Media Network

Eleanor Black

Writer and editor

Eric Janssen

Former Editor and Chief News Director, The Dominion Post and Stuff

Fiona Katauskas

Editorial Cartoonist at The Guardian

Rev. Frank Ritchie

Media Chaplain and Radio Broadcaster

Gordon Harcourt

Communications Lead for Construction Sector Accord (MBIE), former broadcaster

Graeme Muir

Communications Manager

Grant McKenzie

CEO at Allied Press

Irene Chapple

Former Journalist/Editor. Filmmaker/Communications Specialist

Isabelle Oderberg

Journalist, editor, author, communications professional and media strategist

Janet McIntyre

Journalist, reporter and producer - SUNDAY, 60 Minutes and Channel 9 News (Australia)

Jenni McManus

Editor, LawNews

Jim Tully

Adjunct Associate Professor Jim Tully ONZM

John Gillespie

Media Consultant & Board Member

John Roughan

Columnist and former chief leader writer, NZ Herald

Jonathan Milne

Managing editor of Newsroom Pro

Josie Steenhart

Editor, 03 Magazine

Leigh Pearson

Strategy and external relations advisor

Lynn Freeman

Media and Communications Manager, Forest & Bird

Mani Dunlop

Former RNZ presenter

Mark Dodd

Editor nine.com.au at Nine, Australia

Mark Crysell

Journalist/writer

Mark Stewart

Photographer Herald Sun/News Corp Australia

Megan Nicol-Reed

Former Columnist, NZ Herald

Melissa Gardi

Communications and Content Specialist

Michelle Duff

Award-winning freelance journalist and writer; former Stuff National Correspondent

Michelle Hurley

Publisher, Allen & Unwin; former editor of Canvas magazine, NZ Herald

Miriyana Alexander

Editor and media consultant

Nicholas Burrowes

GM The Pluto Group Limited; Chair of Magazine Publishers Association

Nicola Coburn

Media and communications advisor

Nikki Mandow

Research communications, University of Auckland, former business editor Newsroom

Oriini Kaipara

Journalist, Broadcaster, Public Speaker, Māori Translator & Interpreter

Pamela Stirling

Former editor, NZ Listener

Penny Stephens

Freelance photographer

Phil Taylor

Writer and researcher

Richard Harman

Managing Editor of POLITIK

Richard Pamatatau

Programme Leader - Graduate Diploma in Pacific Journalism, AUT; Political Commentator

Sam Ackerman

Freelance Broadcaster, Journalist and Communications Consultant at Ackermerc

Sarah Dunn

B2B content marketing specialist

Sharon Stephenson

Lifestyle Journalist

Shaun Bamber

Freelance writer and communications contractor

Simon Day

Ngāti Hikairo. Journalist, Head of Growth and Strategy, ATA Business

Sinead Boucher

Owner at Stuff

Sue Ahearn

Journalist specialising in the Pacific and Asia; Editor Pacific for RFA/BenarNews and former Editor of ABC International

Tania Page

Senior Journalist (Ngāti Kahu, Ngāi Tahu)

Todd Niall

Freelance writer, retired journalist specialising in Auckland issues and the Americas Cup. Historian of the Trekka motor vehicle

Trish Sherson

Director, Sherson Willis

Veronica Schmidt

Director of Communications, former journalist and editor

Zac Fleming

Breaking News Editor, Bloomberg

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Cate has a diverse background spanning local government, public policy/law reform, and media. For the past eight years she has been working  for the judicial branch of government and is currently Director of Te Tari Toko I Te Tumu Whakawā, The Office of the Chief Justice.

Her 20-year career as a journalist culminated in the editorship of the Sunday Star Times (2003 – 2008).

Following this she was recruited by Sir Geoffrey Palmer to join New Zealand’s independent law reform agency, the Law Commission. Te Aka Matua o te Ture, as a Senior Research and Policy Adviser. During her five years in that role, she was involved in several high-profile law reform projects including; the reform of the law of contempt and the legal and regulatory response to digital media and convergence.  The latter project resulted in the enactment of the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015.

She left the Law Commission in 2013 to take up a role as Chief of Staff for former Labour MP, the Hon Lianne Dalziel, after her election as Mayor of Christchurch.

Cate divides her time between Õtautahi Christchurch where her family is based and her working life in Pōneke, Wellington.

Jenni McManus, a co-founder of the award-winning newspaper The Independent Business Weekly, has more than 40 years’ experience in journalism. She began her career in private radio, moving to NBR in the late 1980s after a brief stint at ATI (now known as AUT) teaching the six-month journalism course. She has also worked in television as part of TV3’s The Ralston Group and as a business commentator on TVNZ’s Breakfast program. Since 2019 she has been the editor of LawNews, a website owned by The Law Association of New Zealand (formerly known as the Auckland District Law Society, or ADLS).

She has won more than 20 journalism awards, including Senior Reporter of the Year at the Qantas awards in 1997, and the Citibank award. She is a published author (In the Arena and A Woman’s Place), and a trained yoga teacher and yoga therapist.

Mark Stewart is an award-winning staff photographer for News Corp Australia, based at Melbourne’s Herald Sun.

Over two decades in newspapers he has covered the events, news, politics and sport that matter both locally and abroad. With a strong interest in the outdoors, sports photography and magazine work, you’ll usually find him on the sidelines at the AFL or in the studio when he’s not travelling the country by motorcycle.

Simon Day (Ngāti Hikairo) is the head of growth and strategy at ATA, a kaupapa Māori social media agency. He has been drawn to the power of great storytelling his whole life. At school he wanted to be a sports journalist, at university a political reporter, while travelling around the world he was sure he would become a foreign correspondent. By the time he returned to Aotearoa he discovered he just wanted to tell great stories that explained who we are. Simon has worked at Stuff, World Vision, The Spinoff and was most recently the Head of Re: News at TVNZ.

Trish is a political commentator and co-founder of Corporate Affairs firm, Sherson Willis, which she set up in 2006 with Rewa Willis after working in media and politics.

Trish started her career in radio as a journalist for Radio New Zealand and a producer for Radio Pacific.  She then worked in Parliament as Senior Caucus Press Secretary before heading back into news and current affairs as a Wellington based producer for TVNZ’s Late Edition and Holmes shows.

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