STEVE HART

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 feature articles, producing and hosting syndicated radio shows, recording voiceovers, and creating video content.

My media career began in the 1980s as a professional beat-mixing DJ. This exciting chapter evolved into working both on-air and behind the scenes at commercial stations and the BBC, including five years with Radio Top Shop.

Steve Hart - podcast editor and voice over actor.

I entered print journalism in my mid-twenties, quickly progressing from reporter to senior journalist, section editor, chief sub editor, and eventually deputy editor overseeing 14 regional newspapers with a combined weekly distribution of one million copies. I also contributed as a freelance journalist and researcher to Private Eye, News of the World, Daily Mirror, Thames News, and worked in the newsrooms of BBC Essex and Essex Radio.

Before relocating to New Zealand in 2000, I was managing editor at Barkers Trident Communications, a contract publishing firm in London. Upon joining The New Zealand Herald, I served in several editorial roles over seven years, including chief sub editor of the business section, travel editor, careers section editor, and managing editor of NZME’s commercial publications.

As a freelancer, I contributed to numerous consumer and B2B publications, primarily covering business, employment, investing, photography, and engineering. I also served as editor of Herald Homes for five years.

I launched my first podcast in 2008, focused on the New Zealand sharemarket, and later authored the popular guide Podcasting Made Easy book. My entrepreneurial projects include launching and selling Viewfinder – a magazine for hobbyist filmmakers – and running a membership site for freelance journalists in New Zealand.

Today, I continue to work as a journalist while also producing video content related to film and podcasting. These projects involve research, scripting, presenting, editing, and post-production. I also host a weekly jazz radio show, syndicated to more than 80 stations globally.

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

Publication titles

  • Herald Homes (New Zealand Herald) – Editor
  • Travel (New Zealand Herald) – Editor
  • Careers (New Zealand Herald) – Editor
  • Business Herald (chief sub editor)
  • Investor Magazine NZ – Editor
  • D-Photo NZ – Editor
  • Engineering & Manufacturing NZ – Editor
  • Writing assignments for numerous B2B and B2C titles such as Management Magazine, Mortgage Magazine, and Employment Today