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Philip Matthews

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Christchurch
As seen in: The Press (New Zealand), Stuff.co.nz, Sunday Star-Times, New Zealand Listener, Lexology, Newsroom New Zealand, The Spinoff, Mondaq, Senses of Cinema, The Post (Wellington), Te Ao - Māori News
Senior journalist with The Press. Author of THE QUIET HERO (Allen & Unwin, 2023). Reviewer of the year (Voyager Media Awards 2022). These opinions are my own.
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The past and future of The Press

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By Philip Matthews Verified
| The Post (Wellington)
The Press can be read on a desktop and a mobile phone, as well as in print.Peter Meecham / The Press As The Press turns 165, PHILIP MATTHEWS finds there is still enormous demand for local journalism and new ways to deliver it. The scene was London in the 1990s, in a newspaper office on Leigham Court Rd. An object appeared in the newsroom like a visitor from the future. What was it? It was a computer that could access the internet.
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Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century by Steve Braunias

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By Philip Matthews Verified
| nzreviewofbooks.com
The last time a book by Steve Braunias was reviewed at this website, a mere 10 months ago, Guy Somerset wondered if Braunias could escape the clutches of crime. Somerset sounded doubtful, and he had good reason to doubt. At the time, Braunias was deep into his long, gripping and idiosyncratic dispatches from the Philip Polkinghorne trial, published daily in the NZ Herald. He was clearly absorbed, just as his many readers were. Could he really call time on his true-crime series, as he had promised?
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A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern

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By Philip Matthews Verified
| nzreviewofbooks.com
To understand the adult, look at the child. Jacinda Ardern grew up in the most ordinary of New Zealand circumstances: in a simple house in a small town, with decent, modest, hard-working parents, an older sister and a grey rescue cat named Norm. Her father was a cop; her mother was smart enough to go to university but never did. They were Mormons. They drove a beige Toyota Corona. They weren’t rich: almost all of Ardern’s clothes were home-made or hand-me-downs.
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