Tara Ross


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Asia Media Centre Editorial Advisory Group member, head of the journalism program at the University of Canterbury

Tara Ross is a senior lecturer and head of the journalism program at the University of Canterbury, where she is also a research fellow with the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies.

Before taking up a role in academia, she was an award-winning senior reporter for The Press and Sunday Star-Times newspapers and has worked both as a freelance writer and editor, including for community news publications. She is of Pākehā and Tuvaluan descent, and her research interests include inclusive journalism, ethnic minority media and Pacific media. 

University of Canterbury: 
www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/contact-us/people/tara-ross.html