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27 resultsA Moral Truth — Mediawatch interview
A Moral Truth: 150 years of investigative journalism in New Zealand opens with an extract from Te Hokioi, which the book's editor, James Hollings,...
The Spinoff reviews A Moral Truth
John Campbell on how investigative journalism helped create New Zealand A Moral Truth is an outstanding collection: moving, enraging, illuminating,...
Five Questions for James Hollings
Compiling A Moral Truth would have required its own kind of investigation, tracking down the articles you include. How did you choose them? There w...
10 Questions with James Hollings
1. When you first started thinking about this collection of investigative journalism, what was your hope for it?I teach a course on investigative j...
A Moral Truth
New Zealand journalism that holds power to account
James Hollings
James Hollings is Associate Professor of Journalism at Massey University, Wellington.
James Hollings talks to Mediawatch about Pat Booth’s incredible legacy
James Hollings talked to Colin Peacock, at RNZ’s Mediawatch, about the legacy of investigative journalist Pat Booth, who died earlier this week. In...
A Moral Truth wins award for best typography at the PANZ Book Design Awards
Designers Gideon Keith and Carla Sy took out the PANZ Book Design Award for Best Typography for their work on A Moral Truth. The judges noted: ‘A g...
Sunday Best
How the imprint of the church dominates New Zealand society even in this secular age
10 Questions with Jack Ross
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017? I think the thing I like best about it is the number of y...
Extract from Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand
The battle over Māori sovereignty Just when the missionaries were beginning to convince themselves that two decades of arduous and unrewarding labo...
Downfall reviewed in The National Oral History Association of New Zealand newsletter
Roger M. Smith, a Wellington PhD student in German Poetry and Rights Officer at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, has reviewed Paul Diam...
‘A Leader in the Making’: an extract from Experience of a Lifetime
Lindsay Inglis joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) in April 1915 as a 20-year-old second lieutenant, and spent the entire war as an o...
Telling the Home Front story
This text is adapted from a speech given by Steven Loveridge at the launch of The Home Front at Palmerston North City Library on 20 November 2019....
10 Questions with Steve Chadwick
1. Now that the book is finished, are you happy with it? Yes, very pleased. It has turned out better than I expected. 2. What were you looking fo...
10 Questions with Girol Karacaoglu and Graham Hassall
Q1: Can you briefly describe what social policy is? A traditional answer has been that social policy focused on ‘welfare’ for the needy plus, more...
10 Questions with Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
1. Why did you want to create this book? This adventure began when I stumbled across one of Taylor’s ceramic tile murals stacked in three cardboar...
Downfall reviewed in Australian Historical Studies
Catie Gilchrist reviews Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond for Australian Historical Studies: ‘In 1920, New Zealanders we...
Ten questions with Andrew Paul Wood
Q1: When you started this project did you have any idea that you would unearth such a rich cast of characters? Yes and no. Some of these people had...
Ten questions with Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy
Q1: The subtitle declares ‘new writing for a changed world’. Changed, how so? WI: Nature keeps sending out these SOS messages, and Cyclone Gabriell...
‘At the Table’ by Pita Sharples
Extract from Conversations About Indigenous Rights, edited by Rawiri Taonui and Selwyn Katene. At the TablePita Sharples, Former Minister of Māor...
10 Questions with Mark Beehre
Q1: What prompted you to begin this project? I did the first few interviews and photographs as part of the studio component of a Master of Fine Ar...
Read the first chapter of Will to Win
Will to win INTRODUCTION Rivalry, resilience and redemption The Silver Ferns are New Zealand’s national netball team. The team name originates f...
10 Questions with Peter Lineham
Q1: What prompted you to write the book? I was asked to take on the commission a while ago now, back in 2013. It appealed to me because I have long...
Ten Question Q&A with John Walsh and Jane Ussher
Q1: This book was sparked by your beautiful 2022 book, also in partnership with John Walsh, Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors. T...
The revolutionary live interview with Peter Wells
The Spinoff has interviewed Peter Wells about his memoir Dear Oliver: ‘The return of the patented Spinoff revolutionary live email interview, this...
Damien Wilkins’ launch speech for On We Go
On We Go was launched at Bowen Galleries, Wellington, on Monday 15 March by Damien Wilkins. I’m very happy to say a few words about this gorgeous,...