Internet advertising company Criteo’s first female CEO, Megan Clarken, has had an illustrious career in business so far. For the past 15 years, the native New Zealander has been a champion of diversity and inclusion at Nielsen Global Media where …
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In an opinion piece for The Guardian, Laura Clarke, the British high commissioner to New Zealand, writes about why the UK wants to strengthen its relationship with Māori. “The connections between the UK and New Zealand are such that we …
Less than a month away from the birth – which will make Jacinda Ardern the first serving head of government since Benazir Bhutto to have a baby – television host Clarke Gayford, 40, who will be a stay-at-home dad, is …
Photographing birds and tinkering with words were two of the late John Clarke’s favourite pastimes. In a Guardian article, they come together in excerpts from a new book showcasing the New Zealander’s body of work, called Tinkering: The Complete Book …
Clarke Gayford, host of televisions series Fish of the Day and partner of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, describes life with bodyguards, a state mansion and a call from Donald Trump in an article for local news site The …
New Zealander John Clarke was “adored and admired” by the host of 3AW breakfast radio, Ross Stevenson, who dominates Australia’s most competitive radio market, Melbourne. Clarke and Stevenson co-wrote the ABC TV comedy The Games and a number of comic …
News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM | 12 July 2017 | #272 | New York Film & TV | Guardian (The) 11 July 2017 Jane Campion on Inspiration Behind New TOTL Series Fans of the critically …
Geoffrey Rush, David Wenham and Gina Riley joined a line-up of some of Australia’s biggest names in television to pay a final tribute to renowned satirist, Palmerston North-born John Clarke in a packed out farewell at Melbourne’s town hall. About …
News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM | 12 April 2017 | #258 | New York News | New Zealand Herald (The) 11 April 2017 Sir Douglas Myers, Brewing Magnate and Business Advocate (78) Sir Douglas Myers, …
New Zealand born “celebrated satirist and comedian John Clarke has died suddenly, aged 68,” reports ABC News. Clarke, who made “his name as a comedian and political satirist in Australia after arriving in the 1970s”, appeared on Australian television conducting …
Head brewer at Cumbria’s Hawkshead Brewery in England, Whanganui-born Matt Clarke, sent a New Zealand Pale Ale (NZPA) to Wellington for the 21st birthday celebration of renowned bar The Malthouse, as part of the annual New Zealand beer festival, Beervana. …
When New Zealand-born designer Manuka Clarke purchased Californian lingerie company Farr West in January, she wanted to reinvigorate the company’s classic designs while keeping all production in the United States at the highest quality with ethically sound standards.
Ivan Clarke is the Queenstown artist behind the captivating and popular art collection, ‘Lonely Dog’. Ivan’s work is showcased in art galleries in Queenstown, Auckland, Wellington and Wanaka. In the last 10 years he has diversified somewhat into a fresh, …
Australian news magazine, The Bulletin, featured a lengthy interview with John Clarke in its May 23 edition. The NZ-born wry humourist, who has lived across the Tasman for the last 30 years, is described as “surely one of the most …
Telemovie adaptations of Shane Maloney’s novels Stiff and The Brush Off by NZ comic John Clarke were a critical and ratings success in Australia, the former netting more than 1.3 million viewers on its one-off screening. Age: “Both films exhibit …
Kiwi comedian and trans-Tasman icon, John Clarke, talks about his latest book, The Tournament. Clarke admits that his satirical account of a tennis tournament played by artistic and academic legends of the 20th century is perhaps “too elitist and quirky” …
New Zealand comedian John Clarke has demonstrated “speechwriting at its finest” in the ABC TV spoof about the Sydney Olympics, The Games. Penning the words for John Howard, actor, Clarke showed John Howard, Prime Minister, how a genuine leadership speech …
New Zealand is full of stunning, natural beauty and home to nearly 3000 glaciers, which are huge tourist destinations. But the glaciers are quickly vanishing due to rising temperatures, ABC News reports. Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts visited Canterbury’s …
News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 04 January 2023 | #430 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Wellington) and Alexandra Burnside (London) See all stories and a 17,000 story archive of …
News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 04 March 2022 | #427 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Wellington) and Alexandra Burnside (London). See all stories and a 17,000 story archive of …
Pioneering Kaikohe-born rugby league great Olsen Filipaina has died at the age of 64. Filipaina was a trailblazer, George Clarke writes in a story published online at Australia’s 7News, becoming one of the first Polynesian players to play in the …
Hamilton-born makeup artist Michael Ashton, 39, has admitted in a new interview with the New York Post’s Page Six Style, that he never thought Adele’s signature winged eyeliner would become so iconic. Nevertheless, it made a triumphant return this month …
Ahead of her recent reading at Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin (ILB), mould-breaking poet Hinemoana Baker talked English-language magazine Exberliner through her new book, the New Zealand-Berlin connection and why Germans should stop doing the haka. Christchurch-born Baker moved to Berlin in …
New Zealand speed flyers Jamie Lee and Malachi Templeton are two extreme-sports thrill-seekers who feature in the documentary, Reset, which is directed by Frenchman Thierry Donard, considered “the Fellini of adventure film-making”. “Speed flying,” according to The Guardian’s Cath Clarke, “looks …
“Australians have known for decades that New Zealanders are the funniest people in the world: we’ve been claiming hilarious Kiwis as our own since John Clarke crossed the ditch in the ’70s,” Ben Pobjie writes for The Sydney Morning Herald. …
[[trackingImage]] News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 24 December 2020 | #410 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Wellington) Alexandra Burnside (London). See all stories and a 16,000 story archive of …
Everyone remembers the cricket but few recall the day New Zealand running hero John Walker took to the track in Melbourne, Adam Collins writes for The Guardian’s weekly cricket email, The Spin. It started with a tweet. On 4 March …
News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 15 January 2020 | #390 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Wellington) and Alexandra Burnside (New York). See all stories and a 16,000 story archive …
In a stunt hailed as a coup for the New Zealand travel industry, American comedian Stephen Colbert has screened segments from his trip here on The Late Show. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern turned tour guide for the talk …
The British government have expressed “regret” that explorers killed some of the first Māori they met 250 years ago but stopped short of issuing a full apology. British High Commissioner Laura Clarke met Māori tribal leaders in Gisborne as New …
News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 04 September 2019 | #379 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Wellington), Carla Hofler (Auckland) and Alexandra Burnside (New York). See all stories …
Popular television actor Pua Magasiva died on May 11, 2019 aged 38. Born in Samoa but raised in New Zealand, Magasiva played the Red Ranger in 2003’s Power Rangers Ninja Storm as well as 2004’s Power Rangers Dino Thunder. He …
New Zealander Tom Mockridge is exiting his role as CEO at UK cabler Virgin Media and will return to Italy to be with his family. He has had a long career in pay TV and newspapers. In TV he worked …
“In October of 2017, when Jacinda Ardern became the Prime Minister of New Zealand—a country with a population of fewer than five million—she assumed leadership of a place not accustomed to making global headlines,” writes Amelia Lester in an article published …
Twenty years ago, 20 chefs headed to the Berkeley at the behest of Peter Gordon (pictured right), the New Zealander best known at the time for his Sugar Club restaurants. With 20 tables of 10, each chef would cook for …
“The British high commission in New Zealand has been given the green light to recruit its first adviser on Māori affairs, as well as a te reo language teacher for high commissioner Laura Clarke.” Eleanor Ainge Roy reports for The …
New Zealander Redmond Wallis plays a role in the new book, Half the Perfect World, which tells the story of the post-war international artist community that formed on the Greek island of Hydra, and also included the likes of Leonard …
Eva Green (“Casino Royale”), Eve Hewson (“The Knick”) and Marton Csokas (“Into the Badlands”) will star in “The Luminaries, “the TV adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s award-winning novel,” writes Stewart Clarke in an article for Variety. “The upcoming six-parter, which will …
From the outside it appears to be business as usual for New Zealand’s prime minister. But eight weeks ago Jacinda Ardern became only the second leader in the world to give birth while in office, and last week she returned to …
“Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand gave birth to her first child, a girl, on Thursday, making her the first world leader in almost three decades to give birth while in office,” writes Charlotte Graham-McLay in an article for …
News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 06 June 2018 | #317 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Berlin), Carla Hofler, Henrike Forschler (Auckland). See all stories and a 14,000 story archive …
In a Guardian article, New Zealand women with babies due this month discuss what it means to have a pregnant prime minister, and how they will balance parenthood, work and a severe lack of sleep. In mid-June Jacinda Ardern will become …
“At just 37 years of age, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the world’s youngest female Head of Government.” Vacations & Travel Magazine spoke to Ardern about her favourite spots in Auckland and Wellington as well as her favourite …
Jacinda Ardern is clear-eyed about what a prime minister of New Zealand, a country with a population of under five million, can achieve on the world stage. “We’re small,” she tells Amelia Lester reporting for American Vogue, “but we do …
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern talks to Guardian contributor and Spinoff editor Toby Manhire about her surprise pregnancy and why she won’t stay quiet on sexism. “I did think about her quite a bit when we announced that I …
New Zealander Heather McCracken, who is based in the United States, has kicked off the knitting movement #KnitForJacinda inspired by the news that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is pregnant. Ardern recently announced that she and her partner Clarke Gayford are …
Jacinda Ardern, who became New Zealand’s prime minister in October, attracted international attention when she denounced television interviewers who had asked whether she planned to have children if elected. Ardern, 37, told a television presenter that it was “unacceptable” for …
News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM | 06 December 2017 | #293 | New York New Zealand | Telegraph (The) 04 December 2017 ‘NZ the Greatest Country on Earth’ “The greatest country on Earth? According …
News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM | 15 November 2017 | #290 | New York America’s Cup | CNN 13 November 2017 Life After the America’s Cup for Winning Sailors “For Joe Sullivan (pictured) and Simon …
News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM | 18 October 2017 | #286 | New York Politics and Economics | Financial Times 17 October 2017 Lessons from New Zealand on Fiscal Discipline “New Zealand and the UK …
Colin Meads, the famously tough All Blacks captain hailed as New Zealand’s greatest rugby player of the 20th century, has died. He was 81. Cambridge-born Meads played 55 tests among 133 games for New Zealand between 1957 and 1971 – …
Move over Kendall, Gigi et al – the next “It” girl is New Zealander Georgia Fowler, who features on the March issue of Australian Harper’s Bazaar. The 24-year-old New York-based model was fashion’s quiet achiever in 2016, securing spreads with …
New Zealand dressage rider Julie Brougham will pip Mark Todd to the “elder statesman” record at this summer’s Olympics, Horse & Hound reports. The New Zealand Olympic committee had said that Todd, 60, would become their most senior Olympian. But …
New Zealand is the perfect place to recover from any kind of stress. Voyager’s World featured five high- end wellness retreats all across New Zealand in an article. Split Apple Retreat, Nelson Split Apple Retreat in the Abel Tasman National …
Queenstown was given its name by early gold prospectors, who not only hoped to find gold, but also saw the beauty of the grandiose mountains, lakes and rivers. It’s “A town fit for a queen”, they would say, according to …
New Zealand-born sportswriter Norman Harris, organiser of London’s Sunday Times National Fun Run, and quite possibly the inventor of the word “jogger”, has died in Britain. He was 75. Harris worked as a sports reporter for the Sunday Times, the …