Hello, my name is Steve Hart, a New Zealand-based journalist, podcaster, and editor.
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
- 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 – 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
- Journalist for BBC and commercial radio in the UK
- Newspaper reporter (UK)
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.