Josie McNaught
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Lawyer and Journalist  


Graduated LLB July 2016, to accompany the BA (1986) and the Diploma Journalism (1989)


Josie McNaught – 5 Russell Street, Freemans Bay, Auckland NZ
 
Ph; (09) 378-9644 or 0274 585 303
 
josie@josiemcnaught.com
 

Education
 
1978-82                                 St Mary’s College, Wellington 
 
1983-86                                 Victoria University, Wellington
                                               Bachelor of Arts (English and Art History)
 
1989                                    Wellington Polytechnic (now Massey University)
                                              Diploma in Journalism
 
July 2013 – July 2016          Auckland University and AUT University
                                           Bachelor of Law

Auckland University July to November 2013
AUT University March 2014 – June 2016

July 2016                                Dean’s List for top mark in Criminal Procedure 

October 2016                        Completed Professionals with IPLS.
 
Anticipate admission on 2 December 2016.

 My law electives covered Media Law, Intellectual Property, Employment, Family Law, Unit Titles, Sale of Land, Misleading or Deceptive Conduct, Evidence, and Criminal Procedure (for which I received the top prize) 
 
Member of the Auckland Women Lawyer’s Association Committee 2015 and 2016
                                               
Member Maori and Pacific Law Students Society AUT 2014/15
 
Vice President Pompallier Lawn Tennis Club 2013- present
 
Regular contributor to “The Panel” Radio NZ
 
2007                                       Winner, Qantas Media Award for general reporting
 
                       
Professional Experience
 
Current/recent                    

While completing Law, I continued to freelance as time permitted.  Skilled writer, broadcaster, producer, director and contract communications for a variety of media including sub editing/writing (including visual arts writer Metro magazine, Art News NZ and writer for Women in Film and Television and Herald on Sunday, HOME NZ and Australian Art Collector)
 
For the past 20 years I have worked as a freelance journalist – a role I initially took on so I could enjoy the flexibility it offered while I raised my two children who are now 16 ½ and 19.
 
1998 – 2013                        

Freelance journalist, writer, sub editor, television producer/director copy writer, contract communications writer, reporter.
 
My career since 1998 has been a ‘portfolio’ one which means that many of the roles below overlapped as different projects came about. It enabled me to work from home and have the flexibility I desired to bring up my two children who are now 19 and 16. The breakdown clarifies my career further:
 
Television – freelance
 
2010                                       Producer and director My House My Castle (TV2)
March 2009 – June 2010        Writer and sub-editor ACP magazines
2009-2009                            Director My House My Castle (TV2)
Jan – May 2008                     Associate producer New Artland (TVNZ6)
June – Dec 2007                   Senior director Mai Time (TV2)
2004 – 2007                         Reporter for Frontseat Arts show (TV One)
                                                (combined with freelance assignments for the clients listed below when our season ended and for Campbell Live and Nightline)
 
 
Print  - freelance
 
1998 - 2013                          Writer for Dominion Post, Sunday Star Times, Backchat (TV3), Urbis, HOME NZ, Your Home and Garden, NZ Herald, Object art magazine (Australia)
1997                                       Publicity manager, City Gallery Wellington
(left in late 1997 to have my daughter and then my son in 2000 and I continued to freelance until I began studying for my law degree in July 2013.
 
1994 – 1996                         Communications manager Museum of New Zealand
                                                (later to become Te Papa)
 
Prior to 1994
 
1990 – 1994                         Press Officer, Random House publishers, London UK
1989/90                                Reporter (arts and court) Manawatu Evening Standard, Palmerston North
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
           
 
 
 

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