Steve Hart – Multimedia Content Creator & Journalist

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 and BBC radio stations.

I entered print journalism in my mid-twenties, quickly progressing 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 contributed as a freelance journalist and researcher to Private Eye, News of the World, Daily Mirror, and Thames News (TV).

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 including chief sub editor of the daily business section, travel editor, careers section editor, and managing editor of NZME’s commercial publications.

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

I launched my first podcast in 2008, focusing on the New Zealand sharemarket, and later authored the popular Podcasting Made Easy book.

My entrepreneurial projects include launching Viewfinder – a magazine for hobby 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.