Former journalist Hamish Rutherford is the new head of the NZME editorial advisory board. Photo \/ Jason Oxenham<\/p>\n
\u201cMiri returning to the frontline of Herald journalism is a real coup,” said NZ Herald editor-in-chief Murray Kirkness.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is an incredible newsroom leader and award-winning journalist. Her innate ability to connect with audiences and tell stories that matter will be invaluable to us. <\/p>\n
\u201cMiri will be warmly welcomed back by our teams across the country and she will help us continue setting the bar in delivering journalism that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alexander is now based in Christchurch.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019ll also provide specific expertise and insights as we strengthen our presence in Christchurch and grow our coverage of Canterbury and South Island stories,\u201d said Kirkness. <\/p>\n
\u201cMiri will be a fantastic addition to NZME\u2019s Christchurch-based news team, working with our talented southern journalists ably led by Kurt Bayer at the Herald and Claire Sherwood from Newstalk ZB. And her business acumen and strategic experience will be welcomed by NZME more widely as we continue to strengthen in the Mainland.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alexander said she was \u201cso excited to be back with the Herald, especially based in thriving Christchurch”.<\/p>\n
She starts her new role on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
NZME chairman Steven Joyce thanked Alexander for her work in helping establish the NZME editorial advisory board, whose other members are Philip Crump, Josie Pagani and Brent Webling.<\/p>\n
\u201c… I\u2019m pleased to welcome Hamish to the role. The EAB exists to provide advice, support and constructive challenge to NZME\u2019s editorial leadership, and Hamish\u2019s extensive experience across journalism and public affairs will be invaluable in the role. I\u2019m confident he\u2019ll do an excellent job leading the EAB.\u201d<\/p>\n
A new publisher of BusinessDesk<\/p>\n
NZME also announced today the appointment of Matt Martel to a newly created role of BusinessDesk publisher.<\/p>\n
The company said Martel, who has been a senior newsroom leader at NZME, would be responsible for driving BusinessDesk\u2019s growth across audience, subscriptions and advertising revenue, including its content strategy and brand development. <\/p>\n
New BusinessDesk publisher Matt Martel.<\/p>\n
\u201cMatt\u2019s appointment demonstrates confidence in the strength of the BusinessDesk masthead, journalism and commercial offering,\u201d said NZME chief publishing officer Matt Wilson.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a strong appetite for quality business news in New Zealand, and BusinessDesk is well placed to continue to capitalise on that. Matt\u2019s vast journalistic experience, his strong business community networks and knowledge of audiences, technology and content, as well as his passion for the brand, make him the ideal person to lead this new chapter for BusinessDesk.\u201d <\/p>\n
Martel said: \u201cI love BusinessDesk and I\u2019ve been impressed with how it has advanced under NZME ownership. It is the biggest and best specialist news publisher in New Zealand with an impressive journalistic staff. Now, we get the opportunity to build something even bigger and better.\u201d <\/p>\n
He will work closely with NZME business managing editor Duncan Bridgeman and BusinessDesk editor Victoria Young.<\/p>\n
Editor-at-Large Shayne Currie is one of New Zealand\u2019s most experienced senior journalists and media leaders. He has held executive and senior editorial roles at NZME including Managing Editor, NZ Herald Editor and Herald on Sunday Editor and has a small shareholding in NZME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former journalist Hamish Rutherford is the new head of the NZME editorial advisory board. Photo \/ Jason Oxenham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77486,95,60504,1558,2372,58722,4500,3937,6097,32896,13997,2740,106,10938,2936,296,5844,13489,1073,2683,117,111,43,91184,139,69,168437,24393,49541,26268,72160,205,3045,5843,42327],"class_list":{"0":"post-308787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-advisory","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-associate","11":"tag-been","12":"tag-board","13":"tag-businessdesk","14":"tag-changes","15":"tag-chief","16":"tag-down","17":"tag-editor","18":"tag-editorial","19":"tag-former","20":"tag-head","21":"tag-herald","22":"tag-insider","23":"tag-into","24":"tag-journalist","25":"tag-leader","26":"tag-media","27":"tag-move","28":"tag-new","29":"tag-new-zealand","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-newsroom","32":"tag-newzealand","33":"tag-nz","34":"tag-nzmenz","35":"tag-nzmes","36":"tag-press","37":"tag-publisher","38":"tag-replaced","39":"tag-role","40":"tag-secretary","41":"tag-senior","42":"tag-stepped"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}