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Cate Honoré Brett is an award-winning writer with 20 years of experience as a journalist, including a five-year stint as editor of the Sunday Star Times. She has an enduring interest in the rights and responsibilities of the news media and in 2013 worked with media and privacy law expert, Professor John Burrows, on the Law Commission’s report to government recommending the establishment of a single converged standards body for all New Zealand news media. She is currently Chief Advisor of Judicial Development and Communications at the Ministry of Justice.

Late edition: A chat with comeback news bosses Mark Jennings and Tim Murphy

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Last week plans for a new news-based site, run by Mark Jennings and Tim Murphy, thudded prematurely into public view. What are the former mainstream news chiefs’ plans for the venture, could they have done more to stop the crisis they now hope to remedy, and can they sign up John Campbell to cover the … Read more

What’s to complain about? Ex Sunday Star Times editor Cate Brett on press accountability in the digital era

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In an essay first published in the non-fiction anthology Don’t Dream It’s Over: Reimagining Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, former SST editor Cate Brett looks at the relationship between newspapers and their readers in the age of digital disruption. Editors were once sufficiently important to sack. I survived five years as editor of the Sunday … Read more