Experience

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  Auckland Council

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Corporate Communication and Media Specialist

    • Jul 2023 - Present
    • Auckland, New Zealand

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  Westpac New Zealand

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Media Relations Adviser

    • Oct 2022 - Jul 2023
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Responsibilities:Reactive media management- First point of contact within the business for media- Gathering information internally to write up responses to queries from media- Communicating responses to media.Proactive media management- Identifying opportunities to promote the business externally- Writing and circulating media releases externally- Checking and editing documents that are released externally.Researching and writing speeches and items to be published in the mediaMedia monitoring- Keeping across mentions of the business in the media- Compiling reports on reception of proactive media campaigns.Incident and crisis management- Attending internal company-wide meetings for major incidents / crisis- Giving advice from an external relations perspective on how to manage incident /crisis- Formulating and sending out external communications about incident / crisis.

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  TVNZ

  • New Zealand
  • Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Homepage Editor

    • Jul 2017 - Oct 2022

    Leading a team of journalists to write stories and produce content for 1News.co.nz. Responsible for minute by minute editorial decisions, sub-editing and timely and accurate turnaround of news.

  • Digital News Producer 1News

    • Apr 2015 - Jul 2017

    Writing, editing and publishing news stories and content for 1news.co.nz.

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  MSN New Zealand

  • Auckland

  • News editor

    • Oct 2013 - Apr 2015
    • Auckland

    Journalist editing the news website msn.co.nz.

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  3news.co.nz

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Sports online editor

    • Apr 2008 - Nov 2010
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Writing daily breaking sports news and sports stories. Live commentary of international sports matches. Editing video packages for the web. Selecting and uploading photos for web.