Janna Hamilton
Telling people's stories
I became a journalist to tell people's stories. For the past 12 years I have worked as a journalist and communications officer in New Zealand, East Africa, South East Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific, specializing in media and communications for the United Nations and humanitarian agencies including UNEP, Oxfam, Red Cross and the Himalayan Trust.
As a journalist in New Zealand and Cambodia, I reported on daily news, sport and business for print and radio, as well as writing travel and adventure sports features for New Zealand newspapers and magazines. Below is a small sample of some of the extraordinary people I've met and adventures I've had along the way.
Opinion pieces
We can't let ISIS win the publicity war
New Zealand Herald, November 23, 2015
World must wake up to injustice of famine
New Zealand Herald, August 13, 2011
Oxfam in Samoa
Kiwi farming couple, Heather and Craig Millar, travel with Oxfam and TV3's Campbell Live programme to see how their Oxfam Unwrapped gifts are helping create opportunities in niche organic farming for rural Samoans.
Travel features
Travel feature on celebrity TV presenter and Chef Al Brown's Ready for the Wild corprate challenge weekends in the luxury of Poronui wilderness retreat.
New Zealand Herald, travel section, Sept 2010
The misadventures of doubling on a dirt-bike for 12 days in Cambodia's nothern provinces.
Phnom Penh Post, March, 2005
© 2014 Janna Hamilton