Michael Smith

Michael Smith is the editor of The Mud, a Rotorua-based news web site. He wrote extensively on the forestry industry changes in the 1980s for the National Business Review, was co-author of multi-client studies on the forest industries in New Zealand, South Africa and Latin America, and the publisher and editor of the Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Journal and Yearbook. He is also the author of The Last Newspaper in the World.