Contributors

Published August 28, 2009 @ noon

Photographer Florence Noble is that rare thing—a snapper who can write too. Her words and pictures are regularly seen in publications like Sunday and Home New Zealand. She also acts, runs an indie club night at Cassette Number Nine and spends her spare time playing football, music, making sketches and short films. Just the person, then, to profile and capture two hot local talents: actor Chelsie Preston Crayford on page 19 and Gerard Johnstone, the writer, director and editor of The Jaquie Brown Diaries on page 40.

Julie Starr is fully signed up for the reinvention of journalism and so far enjoying the ride. She’s been a reporter, downtable sub, layout sub, chief sub-editor, radio presenter, newsroom change agent and editorial manager. In the UK she was part of a team that launched the Daily Telegraph’s integrated web-and-print newsroom. Now back in Enzed, Julie is editor-in-residence at Wintec’s School of Media Arts in Hamilton, does some journalism teaching and presentations on changes affecting news companies, and takes on project work. She’s particularly interested in the possibilities of new media journalism, combining technology and news sources—just like the Kiwi data hounds she profiles on page 60.

Idealog #23 saw the debut of a regular book review column by Paul Reynolds, an Auckland-based digital strategist, commentator and thinker on cultural/techno change. He is a co-founder and joint managing director of McGovern Online, which has been working in the new media space since 1995 and currently focuses on the creative/cultural sector, especially if it involves a museum, a gallery or a library. Paul blogs, most days, at www.peoplepoints.co.nz. You’ll find his reviews in this issue on page 80.