About our guests
On Tuesday 7 August Lynn Freeman and Julie Hill joined us for a discussion about journalism.
They answered questions about journalism, with a focus on the arts, in a digital conference with five schools from around New Zealand.
Watch clips of them talking about:
- Education pathways to journalism
- Juggling personal opinion with fact
- The rewards of journalism
- Journalism and travel
- Interviewing someone who doesn’t want to talk
- Being a journalist and maintaining a personal life
Lynn Freeman
Lynn Freeman
Lynn Freeman is the Presenter of The Arts on Sunday for Radio New Zealand National, and is also the theatre critic for Capital Times in Wellington. Lynn has been a presenter with Radio New Zealand for 20 years, and has been Senior Producer for Morning Report and the Executive Producer for Nine to Noon. She has produced Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw and presented What’s Going On for the past six years. Lynn has won several awards at the Qantas Media Awards, most recently in 2005 with her Insight story ‘Can culture save us?’. Lynn is one of New Zealand’s leading arts journalists, and was one of the judges for the 2007 BPANZ Review Awards, as well as judging Wellington’s annual Chapman Tripp Awards.
Julie Hill
Julie Hill is a journalist for TV, radio and print; as well as a scriptwriter. She has been an arts reporter for the TV arts show Frontseat and a producer for Radio New Zealand. Overseas, she’s worked in London for the BBC World Service and for the Hanoi-based news website Vietnam.net. Julie’s scriptwriting credits include MyStory, Zip the Mac’s Pad and Lift. She has published short stories in Turbine and JAAM, and written a number of plays for the Auckland-based theatre group, Winning Productions. Julie was nominated for Best New Playwright for Stories Told To My By Girls at the 2006 Chapman Tripp awards. She is currently working on a new sitcom in development for Prime called Welcome to Paradise.
Julie Hill
Participating schools:
- Stratford High School
- Greymouth High School
- Te Kuiti High School
- Piopio College
- John Paul II High School
Web links
The New Zealand Book Council http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/index.html
Radio New Zealand National: http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/home
Special thanks to The New Zealand Book Council for supporting this digital conversation.
