Need a media troubleshooter?
Sometimes you don’t need another permanent employee. You just need someone who knows how to get the job done.
I’m Steve Hart, a New Zealand-based journalist, editor, and media producer with more than 35 years’ experience across newspapers, magazines, digital media, and broadcasting.
I can step into a project, work out what needs doing and get on with it, whether that’s writing and editing, producing a publication, finding and interviewing people, creating website content, preparing a press release, producing a podcast, editing audio or helping to get an unfinished media project over the line.
I’ve worked in national newsrooms, corporate communications, publishing and broadcasting, and I’m comfortable dealing with both the creative and practical sides of media production.
So if you’ve got a media job that’s proving difficult, a publication that needs producing, content that needs writing, or a project that needs an experienced hand, then give me a call on 02 11 22 44 24.
Steve Hart – freelance journalist, writer and media troubleshooter.
Professional experience
- Newspaper and magazine editor
- Business and general news journalist
- Project manager: web, print, multimedia
- Sub editor / headline writer
- Page layout using InDesign and Affinity
- Data journalist
- Podcast producer
- Radio presenter / voice overs
- WordPress
- Video / audio editing
Career
history
- Specialist business writer reporting on the insurance industry (New Zealand and Australia)
- Herald Homes – editor (New Zealand Herald)
- Travel editor (New Zealand Herald)
- Careers editor (New Zealand Herald)
- Business Herald (chief sub editor, New Zealand Herald)
- Investor magazine – editor (contractor)
- D-Photo magazine – editor (contractor)
- Engineering & Manufacturing NZ – editor (contractor)
- Freelance writing assignments for numerous B2B and B2C titles such as Management Magazine, Mortgage Magazine, and Employment Today among others
- In the UK I was a journalist for BBC and commercial radio, local newspapers, and worked in high-level corporate communications for Norwegian firm Kvaerner
I’m an experienced multimedia journalist and content producer with a career spanning traditional print media, online, radio broadcasting, podcasting, and video production.
My work includes writing news and features, producing and hosting syndicated radio shows, recording voiceovers, and creating video content.
My media career began in 1980 as a professional beat-mixing club DJ. This exciting chapter quickly evolved into working both behind the scenes and on air at commercial and BBC radio stations.
I entered print journalism, joining my local weekly, quickly progressing to senior journalist, section editor, chief sub editor, and eventually deputy editor overseeing 14 regional newspapers. Total weekly print run was 1 million copies across Essex and London.
I contributed as a freelance journalist and researcher to Private Eye (working for Paul Foot), News of the World, Daily Mirror, and Thames News (TV) and many others.
Before moving to New Zealand in 2000, I was managing editor at Barkers Trident Communications, a contract publishing firm based at Canary Wharf, London.
Upon joining The New Zealand Herald, I served in several editorial roles including chief sub editor of the daily business section, travel editor, careers section editor, and managing editor of NZME’s (New Zealand Herald) commercial publications.
As a freelancer in New Zealand, I contributed to numerous consumer and B2B publications, primarily covering business, employment, investing, photography, and technology.
I launched my first podcast in 2008, focusing on the New Zealand sharemarket (for NZ Investor magazine), and later authored the popular Podcasting Made Easy book.
My entrepreneurial projects have included launching Viewfinder, a magazine for hobby filmmakers, running a membership site for freelance journalists in New Zealand, and a movie-review YouTube channel. In addition I write fantasy-fiction and record voice overs.