about us
Supporting food & fibre storytellers since 1958
The Guild has a rich history of connecting, supporting and championing the people telling the stories of New Zealand’s food and fibre sector. We aim to:
Provide a strong professional network where members can exchange ideas, knowledge and experience.
Support members with information, professional development and opportunities to grow their careers across journalism, communications, public relations and broadcasting.
Encourage high standards of rural journalism and communication and recognise excellence through the Guild’s annual awards.
Promote a better understanding of agriculture and the food and fibre sector, and the vital role it plays in New Zealand’s economy, communities, and way of life.
CODE OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Members of the New Zealand Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators are writers, broadcasters and communicators of work relating to this country’s primary production sector.
Members agree to follow the Guild Code of Ethics in their work: To strive to achieve the highest professional standards, respect the truth and to always be accurate, objective, thorough, fair, polite and honest in our work, including on social media, whether with interviewees, colleagues, other agricultural journalists, communicators or clients.
In meeting the above statement, members of the New Zealand Guild of Agricultural Journalists & Communicators undertake to:
nATIONAL eXECUTIVE
President
TIM FULTON
Lives: North Canterbury
Occupation: Self-employed journalist, district councillor
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Vice-president
Sudesh Kissun
Lives: Auckland
Occupation: Editor of Rural News and Dairy News
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sECRETARY & TREASURER
June Mobley
Lives: Pongaroa, Manawatu
Occupation: Self employed accountant and administrator
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COMMUNICATIONS
committee members
Tony Benny
Lives: North Canterbury
Occupation: Freelance writer, photographer and videographer
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Hayley Gavan
Henry Acland
Andy Thompson
Lives: West Coast
Occupation: Executive Producer & Co-Host of CountryWide CONNECT
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Kate Webber
Neal Wallace
past presidents
The Guild has a long history of leadership across New Zealand’s agricultural journalism and communications sector. This list was compiled for the Guild’s 50th anniversary and has been updated since then. If you can help confirm dates or corrections, we’d love to hear from you.