Media Women in Asia Seminar on Sept 26

The Asia New Zealand Foundation is pleased to present the following line-up of speakers at its Media Women in Asia Seminar in Auckland on September 26. The half day event beginning at 9am will be held at the Heritage Hotel on Hobson St and be chaired by Public Address journalist Russell Brown.

VERONICA PEDROSA

Veronica has been news anchor at the Al Jazeera English television network’s Asia Pacific news centre in Kuala Lumpur since November 2005. She began her career in Manila as a television reporter, presenter and producer for the Philippines broadcaster ABS-CBN. Veronica went on to work for CNN in Atlanta and Hong Kong as well as the BBC World Service and BBC World Television in London. While at CNN she was named Best News Anchor at the ninth Asian Television Awards 2004. She is the daughter of Filipino journalist Carmen Navarro Pedrosa who wrote a tell-all biography on then-First Lady Imelda Marcos that led to the Pedrosa family’s exile in London where Veronica grew up.

SAGARIKA GHOSE

Sagarika Ghose is senior editor and prime time news anchor of the Indian English television news channel CNN IBN. She has been presenter of the BBC World Service Programme Question Time India. She has worked as a journalist in India since 1991, and has also travelled extensively in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. She has been a correspondent for the Times of India and special correspondent for Outlook Magazine and senior editor of The Indian Express newspaper. She is also the author of two novels, The Gin Drinkers (HarperCollins India 1998) and Blind Faith (to be published by HarperCollins UK in 2008).

CHARLOTTE GLENNIE

Charlotte is an award-winning New Zealand journalist and former Asia correspondent for TVNZ. She won the supreme Qantas Media Award for her Boxing Day tsunami reporting and a Special Service Medal. She was based in Hong Kong until TVNZ closed its Asia bureau in 2006. She is now based in Beijing as the China Correspondent for the Australia Network which broadcasts in 42 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

TRISH CARTER

Trish is a former deputy head of news and current affairs at TVNZ and a former Maori Television news executive. She was recruited by Al Jazeera English to be its Asia Pacific bureau chief. It was a green fields operation – headquartered in Kuala Lumpur. Trish built the regional news operation from scratch to a 24 hour news service employing over 130 staff with bureaux in Sydney, Jakarta, Beijing and Manila. She resigned earlier this year and is now based in Auckland.

The speakers at the Media Women in Asia Seminar are available for media interviews. To attend the event, please send an RSVP email to Paula McLaughlin at pmclaughlin@asianz.org.nz

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