Resume

Span	Employer	Position
June 2003 - present	Freelance journalist, columnist, blogger, speaker, media education services	Various clients: NZ Herald, The Listener, Unlimited, Management, Farmers Weekly, The Rural Network, JAG Media
April 1997 - 2003	New Zealand Herald	Agricultural Editor: 1999 - 2003 Hamilton Bureau Chief: 1997 - 1999
May 1995 - April 1997	Rural News	Editor
January - May 1996 (concurrently)	Coast to Coast Television	Presenter, researcher and reporter of the weekly programme Farming Edition
January - May 1995	National Radio	Rural reporter, Hamilton
June 1991 - December 1994	Freelance journalist	Various clients: Radio: ZHFM Hamilton, Newstalk ZB Waikato Print: NZ Herald, The Dominion, The Independent, Export News, Rural News, Straight Furrow, Waikato Business News, Terra Nova, NZ Farmer, NZ Science Monthly, ECNZ Marketing Matters, The Dairy Exporter, Dairying Today, The Deer Farmer, Horticulture News, The NZ Orchardist
1989 - 1991	National Farming News	Editor
1989	New Zealand Farmer and Farm Equipment News	Reporter, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Coromandel and King Country
1984 - 1989	Waikato Times	1987-89, Agriculture editor 1984-87, Regional reporter, Waikato, Coromandel and King Country
1983 - 1984	Hauraki Herald	Reporter/photographer, Paeroa
1980 - 1983	Chesterman Communications	Publications: Waikato Times, Hamilton Press Public relations: various clients

  Career highlights

New Zealand Herald:

• Stevenson's Country, a slice of life column, twice weekly in NZ Herald from 2003 to 2005. A popular, award-winning column that drew comment from all over New Zealand and overseas. Requests for re-prints continue.
  
  
• Powdergate, a multi-award winning investigative series on an alleged $44 million scam within New Zealand's dairy industry. Seven men were successfully prosecuted for conspiracy to defraud 2001 – 2007. In 2007, the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists featured the investigation in its on-line professional development resource, at www.ifaj.org/news/powdergate.html
  
  
• Sponsored by the German and French Governments to study biotechnology and elements of the Common Agriculture Policy in their countries, 2002.
  
  
• Sponsored to Chengdu, Sichuan, China by the Affco meat company to report on a NZ-China joint venture, 2000
  
  
• Wrote a chapter on agricultural history, The farmers' life, in the NZ Herald Book of the Century, 1999.
  
  

Rural News:

• Under Philippa's editorship Rural News reporters scooped the pool at the annual agricultural journalism awards in 1996, winning more awards than any other single paper including the supreme Rongo Award for Excellence in Agricultural Journalism, which Philippa won for a year-long investigation into financial practices in the dairy industry.
  
  

Terra Nova:

• Philippa's 1992 investigation of the legacy of decades of use in the timber industry of the toxic, anti-sapstain chemical pentachlorophenol (PCP) resulted in two, multi-award-winning stories that revealed the official record hid the extent of the pollution and the suffering experienced by workers.
  
  

Waitangi Fellowship:

• Philippa was the first journalist to be awarded a Waitangi Fellowship, and used the sponsorship of the NZ Meat Producers Board to study the meat industry in Europe, NZ's most important market.
  
  

National Farming News:

• Philippa's 1989 investigation into stockpiled old, disused and dangerous chemicals on farms and the total lack of disposal options available to farmers was instrumental in bringing about methods for collection and disposal initially in the Waikato, and subsequently nationwide. The series also won a journalism award.
  
  

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