Atakohu Middleton

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Kua neke atu i te toru tekau tau a Tākuta Atakohu Middleton (Waikato, Pākehā) e mahi ana hei kaikawekōrero. I te tau 2005, nōna e mahi ana i te Hērora o Aotearoa, ka kopoua ia hei Commonwealth Press Union Harry Brittain Fellow mō Aotearoa, ā, e ono ngā paraihe kaipūrongo kua riro i a ia mō āna tuhinga. Kua mahi hoki hei kaiako matua i Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau. Nā tāna tuhinga tākutatanga i ara mai ai tana pukapuka tuatahi, arā, Kia Hiwa Rā! Māori Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand (Huia Publishers, 2023).

Atakohu Middleton (Waikato, Pākehā) has worked as a reporter and feature writer for three decades. She held the Commonwealth Press Union Harry Brittain Fellowship for New Zealand in 2005 while working at The New Zealand Herald and has won six national media awards for news and feature writing. She has also been a senior lecturer at AUT. Her first book, Kia Hiwa Rā! Māori Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand (Huia Publishers, 2023), was based on her PhD thesis. Her collection of short stories in te reo Māori, Waka Aroha: He Kohinga Pakipoto was published by Auckland University Press in 2026.

Photograph: Trinity Thompson-Browne. Courtesy of the Māori Literature Trust, May 2026

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Waka Aroha: He Kohinga Pakipoto