I’m a journalist based in Auckland, New Zealand.
I started my career reporting for The New Zealand Herald.
I was a cadet in the Te Rito Journalism programme, a state-funded diversity drive in New Zealand’s newsrooms. Ko Ngāti Maniapoto ā Ngā Puhi tōku iwi. I also whakapapa as New Zealand European.
I have specialised interests in transport, housing, infrastructure, politics, and the environment, and how they intersect. I also have a great passion for hard news, spot news, investigative journalism, photojournalism and human-interest soft news features.
I’ve reported on major news events from around the country between 2022 and 2025, including live coverage of the Auckland Anniversary Floods and Cyclone Gabrielle, father-turned-kidnapper Tom Phillips’ outlaw life and death, shootings on Ponsonby Rd and Queen St, Election 2023, and an exlusive expose on a reality TV undertaker’s prolonged and repeated scams against her grieving clients, building a reputation as a reliable source of news for the public.
I’ve also been published in the Otago Daily Times, Bay of Plenty Times, Northern Advocate, and The Star, and have been broadcast on Newstalk ZB and BBC Radio 4.
After almost four years of being one of the Herald’s most-published and most well-read journalists, I have turned my hand to freelance work.
We all live such storied lives. And we stitch those stories together to try to create narratives, or meanings, about ourselves and our world. In a postmodern, post-truth, and post-journalistic world, we all have our own lived realities, and we’re finding that these are wilfully at odds with one another.
But objective truth still exists, and it won’t stop existing, and it won’t stop being. It just needs to be revealed.