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North And South (New Zealand Magazine)
''North & South'' is a New Zealand monthly national current affairs magazine, specialising in long-form investigative stories and photojournalism. In an eight-page article in 2015, for example, "Long Walk to Justice", staff writer Mike White (journalist), Mike White asked if New Zealand’s justice system should establish an independent commission to investigate wrongful convictions. Issues involving justice in New Zealand provide a theme for many of his stories for ''North & South''. The editorial content also includes profiles of New Zealanders, brief stories, essays, opinion, music, film and book reviews, food, and travel. History and profile ''North & South'' was launched in April 1986 by Metro Publications – Mick Mason and Bruce Palmer, under editor Robyn Langwell. ACP Magazines then sold to ACP. It is now published by Bauer Media Group, Bauer Media NZ, based in Auckland. Bauer Media NZ acquired the title in September 2012. Virginia Larson succeeded Robyn Langwell as editor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bauer Media
Heinrich Bauer Publishing (german: Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG), trading as Bauer Media Group, is a German multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Hamburg. It operates worldwide and owns more than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations, as well as print shops, postal, distribution and marketing services. Bauer has a workforce of approximately 11,000 in 17 countries. Bauer Verlagsgruppe has been managed by five generations of the Bauer family. In November 2010, Heinz Heinrich's daughter Yvonne Bauer became CEO and 85% owner of the Bauer Media Group after joining the family business in 2005. In February 2021, Bauer Media Group announced it was to acquire Ireland's Communicorp Group, subject to regulatory approval. The acquisition was completed on 1 June 2021. H Bauer UK Originally a small printing house in Germany, Bauer Media Group entered the UK with the launch of ''Bella'' magazine in 1987. Under the name of H Bauer Publishing they became B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Herald
''The New Zealand Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand. It has the largest newspaper circulation of all newspapers in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the daily ''Herald'' had declined to 100,073 copies on average by September 2019. Its main circulation area is the Auckland region. It is also delivered to much of the upper North Island including Northland, Waikato and King Country. History ''The New Zealand Herald'' was founded by William Chisholm Wilson, and first published on 13 November 1863. Wilson had been a partner with John Williamson in the ''New Zealander'', but left to start a rival daily newspaper as he saw a business opportunity with Auckland's rapidly growing population. He had also split with Williamson because Wilson supported the war against the Māori (which the ''Herald'' termed "th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Chamberlain
Jenny may refer to: * Jenny (given name), a popular feminine name and list of real and fictional people * Jenny (surname), a family name Animals * Jenny (donkey), a female donkey * Jenny (gorilla), the oldest gorilla in captivity at the time of her death at age 55 * Jenny (orangutan), an orangutan in the London Zoo in the 1830s Films * ''Jenny'' (1936 film), a French film by Marcel Carné * ''Jenny'' (1958 film), a Dutch film * ''Jenny'' (1962 film), an Australian television film * ''Jenny'' (1970 film), a film starring Alan Alda and Marlo Thomas Music * ''Jenny'' (EP), a 2003 EP by Stellastarr* Songs * "Jenny" (The Click Five song) (2007) * "Jenny" (Nothing More song) * "Jenny" (Studio Killers song) (2013) * "867-5309/Jenny", a 1982 song by Tommy Tutone * "Jenny", a 1968 song by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers * "Jenny", a 1973 song by Chicago from ''Chicago VI'' * "Jenny", a 1995 song by Shaggy from '' Boombastic'' * "Jenny", a 1997 song by Sleater-Kinney from ''Dig Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Wilson (broadcaster)
Tim Wilson is a former New Zealand journalist and broadcaster, who is currently the executive director of the Maxim Institute. Early life and family Wilson was born in Dunedin and adopted by a Presbyterian minister who relocated the family to Pōkeno and then to New Plymouth and finally Whanganui when Wilson was a teenager. Wilson studied at the University of Auckland. While working in New York, Wilson converted to Catholicism. He met his future wife, Rachel, a former primary school teacher, in a Catholic church in Auckland; the couple have three sons. Career Journalism Wilson was formerly a staff writer at Metro (magazine), ''Metro'' magazine before moving to New York City to work as a freelance journalist in September 2001. After making occasional contributions to TVNZ's news bulletins, he was hired as 1 News, ''One News''' first full-time US correspondent in 2004; his first assignment was the Second inauguration of George W. Bush, inauguration of George W Bush. He held thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven O'Meagher
Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is widely regarded as the first martyr (or "protomartyr") of the Christian Church. In English, Stephen is most commonly pronounced as ' (). The name, in both the forms Stephen and Steven, is often shortened to Steve or Stevie. The spelling as Stephen can also be pronounced which is from the Greek original version, Stephanos. In English, the female version of the name is Stephanie. Many surnames are derived from the first name, including Stephens, Stevens, Stephenson, and Stevenson, all of which mean "Stephen's (son)". In modern times the name has sometimes been given with intentionally non-standard spelling, such as Stevan or Stevon. A common variant of the name used in English is Stephan ; related names that have found some currenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Booth (journalist)
Patrick John Booth (9 September 1929 – 31 January 2018) was a New Zealand print journalist and writer. He is particularly noted for his coverage of the Arthur Allan Thomas case, and the Mr Asia crime syndicates. Biography Booth was born on 9 September 1929 in Levin and raised in Hawera. His first journalism job was on the ''Hawera Star'' in 1947. In 1950, he became a general reporter for '' The Auckland Star'', in the first of what became several periods working at the paper, covering everything from sports to politics and crime. In May 1971, Bishop Delargey of Auckland appointed Booth the editor (in succession to the conservative Denzil Meuli) of the Catholic newspaper ''Zealandia'' – the first layman to be appointed its editor. In that capacity he condemned the rock musical '' Hair'', which featured a brief full nudity scene. The New Zealand production was prosecuted and Booth appeared as a police witness. After ten months he resigned from the position citing health ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary McLeod
Rosemary Margaret McLeod (born December 1949) is a New Zealand writer, journalist, cartoonist and columnist. Career McLeod began her career as a journalist in 1970, working for The Sunday Times in Wellington before moving to Eve magazine, where she was staff feature writer and fashion columnist She joined The Dominion in 1972, followed by stints at the NZBC as a radio reporter and at TV One as a news journalist. Her profile rose with a longstanding, self-illustrated column for the ''New Zealand Listener'', which ran from the early 1970s to 1988. During a year in Sydney in 1976 as a contract sitcom writer with the ABC, McLeod worked on a comedy series with feminist themes, Who Do You Think You Are. Also in that year, she won the PEN Best First Book of Prose award for her self-illustrated satirical novel A Girl Like I. On her return to New Zealand she worked as script editor for Joe and Koro, also devising an early TVNZ sitcom called All Things Being Equal. Other television w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick Roger
Warwick George Roger (21 August 1945 – 17 August 2018) was a New Zealand journalist, and the founder of ''Metro'' magazine. He was one of New Zealand's leading journalists during the late 20th century, and his magazine "Metro" was the first of its kind in Auckland, NZ, with its campaigning journalism, long opinionated articles, publishing of long letters to the editor in full, no matter the viewpoint, and general celebration of glitz, gossip and conspicuous consumption. It reflected the times of the 1980s and early '90s. Roger was a keen cricket fan and a marathon runner, who also wrote a gossip column called "Felicity Ferret" which could border on the cruel, and it brought him a defamation suite in 1994, costing the magazine $100,000, and heralding the ferret's demise. He was a mentor to many journalists and bravely faced for the last decades of his life the handicaps of Parkinson's disease. In the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours, Roger was appointed an Officer of the New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Jesson
Bruce Edward Jesson (1944 – 30 April 1999) was a journalist, author and political figure in New Zealand. Early life Bruce Edward Jesson was the son of Victor John and Edna Cavell (née Taylor) Jesson and the great-grandson of an immigrant from Leicestershire in England. He was educated at Christchurch Boys' High School (where he read Darwin's ''Origin of Species'' while a "lab boy" in the biology laboratory and became an atheist) and the University of Canterbury, where he gained a bachelor's degree in law. He worked briefly as a law clerk, but refused to swear allegiance to the Queen, and was never admitted to the Bar. Political activism As a student in the 1960s, he was initially attracted to the Communist Party of New Zealand which tried to groom him to be the party's lawyer. The CPNZ had been the first communist party in the world to side with China in the Sino-Soviet split. However, Jesson struck out on his own, writing a number of polemics such as ''Traitors to Class an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tze Ming Mok
Tze Ming Mok (; born 1978) is a fiction writer and sociopolitical commentator, and has been a prominent New Zealand Asian community advocate. Biography Mok was born in Auckland, New Zealand, growing up in the suburb of Mount Roskill. Her parents came to New Zealand in 1973 as international students studying medicine, and were originally from Singapore and Malaysia. Mok received her degrees at the University of Auckland. She has an MA in political studies, with a thesis titled ''In the name of the Pacific: Theorising pan-Pacific identities in Aotearoa New Zealand''. Mok works in human rights and development. She received her Doctor of Philosophy from the London School of Economics in 2019 with a thesis titled ''Inside the box: ethnic choice and ethnic change for mixed people in the United Kingdom''. Mok's most prominent period of advocacy for New Zealand Asian, migrant, and New Zealand Chinese communities was the period 2005–2007, during which time her ethnopolitical blog Yel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massey University
Massey University ( mi, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 30,883 students, 13,796 of whom are extramural or distance-learning students, making it New Zealand's second largest university when not counting international students. Research is undertaken on all three campuses, and more than 3,000 international students from over 100 countries study at the university. Massey University is the only university in New Zealand offering degrees in aviation, dispute resolution, veterinary medicine, and nanoscience. Massey's veterinary school is accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association and is recognised in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Britain. Massey's agriculture programme is the highest-ranked in New Zealand, and 19th in Quacquarelli Symonds' (QS) world university subject rankings. Massey's Bachelor of Aviation (Air Tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Press Council
The New Zealand Media Council ( Māori: ''Te kaunihera ao pāpāho o Aotearoa'') is a non-governmental organisation which exists to uphold standards in the New Zealand media industry and promote freedom of speech in New Zealand. Founded in 1972 as the New Zealand Press Council, it is enabled to hear complaints against newspapers and other publications, particularly regarding allegations of bias and inaccuracy. It can order an offending publication to publish a summary of the Council's ruling, and will generally specify the prominence of the summary (for example, where in the newspaper). The Council consists of an independent chair, five members representing the public, two representing the Newspaper Publishers’ Association, one representing magazine publishers, and two journalists who are appointed by the E tū union. The members of the public are appointed by an appointments panel composed of members of E tū union, the Newspaper Publishers' Association, the chief ombudsman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
