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Pete McKenzie

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  • International Climate Correspondent, Reuters
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Pete McKenzie’s Biography

Pete is a New Zealand journalist based in New York. He writes for The New York Times, The Guardian, and New Zealand magazines like North & South and New Zealand Geographic. He is a qualified lawyer and previously served as an infantry officer in the Army Reserve.

He focuses on politics, foreign affairs and the environment. Within that wide-ranging beat, he has written about everything from Jacinda Ardern’s secretive chief of staff, to the ethical dilemma posed by traumatised mercenaries coming home from war, to the fiery debate over indigenous knowledge in academia, to the hidden story of how two New Zealand diplomats saved the CIA’s Argo operation during the Iranian hostage crisis.

Pete was named Feature Writer of the Year (Longform) – New Zealand’s most prestigious feature-writing prize – at the 2022 Voyager Media Awards, New Zealand’s annual celebration of journalistic excellence. He also won Junior Feature Writer of the Year and Best Feature Writing (Crime & Justice).

In 2022 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study a masters in global politics at Columbia University’s Journalism School. He has degrees in law and politics from Victoria University of Wellington. He grew up on Wellington’s blustery South Coast.