New Zealand
Communications Specialist | Media strategy and press releases | Experienced in behaviour change marketing | Focused on creating impactful, creative content | Big fan of the outdoors
My portfolio is a combination of content from my various roles as freelance communications specialist, reporter and communications advisor.
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NZ Mountain Safety Council
Joe shares his story with the NZ Mountain Safety Council (MSC) and the events leading up to what he describes as "a pretty scary experience," he recalls being swept up in today's size 3 avalanche.
A hunter never thought an injury on an annual father-daughter Roar hunting trip would be one to change his life.
Media Release: NZ Mountain Safety Council (MSC) teams up with author Gillian Candler illustrator Gavin Mouldey to create a beautifully illustrated adventure story, packed full of practical tips and advice to help families get outdoors and explore.
Media Release: A coroner's findings into the death of a British tramper in the Mt Aspiring National Park in 2020 provides important safety lessons for those tramping solo in New Zealand.
Media Release: The 2020 death of a mountaineer Emma Langley, NZ Alpine Club (NZAC), on Mt Ruapehu has highlighted the importance of being prepared to deal with emergencies in high-risk areas in Aotearoa.
MSC caught up with Jake about their day leading to the rescue - what happened, and what he would've done differently looking back. Jake immediately admits that what was meant to be an ice climbing day trip to Wye Creek, turned into a valuable lesson.
Media Release: MSC are the proud winners of the 2022 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards - Excellence in Marketing Communication Strategy award for our promotion of Plan My Walk.
Media release: A call for extra thought and planning into Queen's Birthday weekend's outdoor adventures across the country, asks the NZ Mountain Safety Council (MSC).
Marius Bron shares his experiences as a LandSAR team member with NZ Mountain Safety Council to help hunters prepare for the upcoming Roar hunting season.
Learn information about Taranaki Maunga including recent fatalities, incident data, prevention initiatives and tips for climbing the mountain safely.
A tramper shares his tips and tricks of hut bagging around NZ's backcountry huts and gives advice about hut etiquette. Links to and promotes Plan My Walk.
Media release: A new report has made recommendations to reduce tramping safety incidents in the Lower North Island’s Tararua Forest Park.
First person: MSC's Rebekah Wilson shares her experience tramping to Jan's Hut in the Orongorongo Valley, Remutaka Forest Park using the Plan My Walk to plan the trip.
Freelance Communications Specialist
I worked with songwriter and creative Kate Wilson to write a media release, then sent it to key contacts in mainstream media. Media Pick up included: - Latitude Magazine - Stuff - Southern Cross Country podcast hosted by Mike Peru -> https://www.instagram.com/p/C2zCcSpPcBv/?img_index=1
For the past decade, independent singer-songwriter, Kaylee Bell, has been making a name for herself in the Australian and American country music scenes.
Freelance Writing
Despite feeling as though the odds were against Maungahina Stud hosting its 75th annual on-farm sale, it resulted in record prices.
Patric Seng was once told he wasn't model material. Now he has taken to the catwalk in the 2016 New York Fashion Week and owns a modelling agency. Seng was...
Wairarapa Times Age - general
How much room do you need to live a happy lifestyle? How traditional does it need to be? BECKIE WILSON talks to people who are thinking outside, and inside, the box when it comes to their homes.
Being a 33-year-old fit and healthy mum does not make you immune from getting cancer, as Alfredton woman Emma Mitchell can testify.
Masterton man Philip Gibbs may never have spoken a word in his life, but it is no barrier for the 23-year-old who is "fiercely independent" and relies on his cell phone and Facebook to communicate.
Most young children have a favourite teddy bear or cuddly blanket, but a young rural Masterton boy's best buddy is Stickman. Five-year-old Joshua White was diagnosed with autism when he was three ...
Rural isolation should not be a barrier to getting a good education, and at Eketahuna School, it isn't.
Even before he was given just months to live, Darryl Hart was already living the good life. BECKIE WILSON reports.
IT failure delays treatment for eight months. Argue with doctors if you're in pain, says survivor.
The plot thickens as the investigation continues into who poisoned, then chopped down, three protected pohutukawa trees at Riversdale Beach.
The widow of one of two trampers who died in the Tararua Ranges in 2016 found out too late to attend Tuesday's coroner's inquest into his death.
Wairarapa Times-Age - Rural and Environment
Twelve-year-old Tod was a four legged "legend" that sparked the beginning of Natalie Smith's journey to save retired working farm dogs.
Gladstone farmer Karen Williams wants to promote the country's arable industry as the sustainable food producer that it is, in her new roles of Federated Farmers' arable chairwoman, both nationally and for Wairarapa.
You are only as good as your weakest player, and that is what the Government aims to combat in the agriculture industry with a new programme targeting low-performing farmers.
Eketahuna . . . has been without a doctor for six months.
Driving trucks after leaving school at 15 gave Shane McManaway the work ethic that has landed him many roles on global agriculture business boards.
"It's in the blood, it's our passion," says the men of the McKenzie family who run the oldest hereford stud in New Zealand. The stud celebrated its 110th year of breeding herefords this year...
Experts are happy to see Masterton's air quality improved this winter, despite still exceeding both national and international guidelines for healthy air.
A long-standing Wairarapa seed processing plant will shut in December with its directors blaming collateral damage from the lengthy region-wide pea growing ban for its demise.
Helping wool reclaim its position as a versatile fibre is the next step for a Masterton entrepreneur and company director as a newcomer to the industry.
Rural isolation is not limited to how far out of town you live, but also where to turn when the pressures within farming life get too much. Feelings of isolation are not limited to rural men...
Severe weather changes predicted for the region until the end century can now be mapped out by farmers and communities looking to prepare and adjust.
Wairarapa farmers have reacted strongly against a Labour Party proposal to charge them royalties for irrigation to finance the cleaning up New Zealand's waterways - one said he did not understand the thinking behind it and another that the added cost would reduce competitiveness on the international market.
Wairarapa Times-Age - Politics
National Party leader Simon Bridges stopped in Wairarapa and spoke with Times-Age reporter Beckie Wilson.
Wairarapa commuters were forced to trek along train tracks to Maymorn station on Monday night after yet another engine failure.
It was a long journey for Wairarapa’s Green Party candidate John Hart from the corporate world of Auckland to the lush pastures of rural Masterton. Times-Age reporter Beckie Wilson caught up with Mr Hart on his organic farm last week.
The first regional attempts at grabbing a slice of the government's $1 billion Provincial Growth Fund are under way.
Conflicting views came to the fore at a Meet-the-Candidates night in Featherston on Tuesday.
Wairarapa Times-Age - Features
Living off-the-grid and being self-sufficient on their 1.3 hectare lifestyle block was all part of the Hicks' family plan, and the newly-built, unique six-container home gets them one step closer to that.
Jo Piper's job is as unpredictable as death itself. As an embalmer, Ms Piper admits the job "is not everyone's cup of tea", but to prepare and present a person before their final journey is a privilege. Reporter Beckie Wilson visited Ms Piper to talk all things embalming.
Once the backbone of a rural community, Wairarapa pubs have seen a shift in attitude that has changed the traditional pub scene, writes Beckie Wilson.
Selling everything to buy a resort on a foreign island may seem beyond anyone's idea for the future. But for a Greytown couple, it's the next step in searching for a new life challenge. BECKIE WILSON spoke to the Rackliffs as they plan their move to Bali in March.
The moment Susan Keast fell asleep behind the wheel changed her life forever. A decade after the crash that shocked her rescuers, she spoke to Beckie Wilson about her miraculous survival.
A planting project at Gladstone's Kourarau Dam aims to bring all interested parties together on the same side, writes Beckie Wilson.
Wairarapa Times-Age - 'Beckie's Block' weekly rural series
Connecting others with New Zealand's rural life is an integral part of the three-day private Tora Coastal Walk in South Wairarapa. After 24 years in business, and with a booked-out walking season assured, co-owner, Kiri Elworthy, talks about the journey to success.