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Lawyer and JournalistGraduated 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 [email protected] 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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