China in 2024 – a kiwi media perspective

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New Zealand has no shortage of media content with a focus on China these days, befitting the country’s significance as an increasingly influential regional and global actor. But with no New Zealand media organisations represented there, experiencing and discussing China first hand is something few kiwi journalists get to experience as part of their reporting.

In June 2024 the New Zealand China Council assisted journalists Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom) and Bruce Munro (Otago Daily Times) to travel to China. Over the course of a week Sam and Bruce explored Shanghai, Beijing and Hangzhou, to get a feel for contemporary China in 2024.

From discussions with diplomats, business leaders and innovators to self-driving cars and jazz clubs, join us to hear first hand from Sam and Bruce about their trip and their observations on China – the good, the bad and the surprising!

A light lunch will be served.

About our speakers:

Bruce Munro has been a news feature writer at the Otago Daily Times since 2012, and has also written for the Dunedin Star. He served as course director for the Allied Press Journalism Cadet Programme in 2023-24, and is a director of video biography company Living Legacy. He has won Science Journalism Fund and Asia New Zealand Foundation media awards and has been a Voyager Media awards finalist.

Sam Sachdeva is national affairs editor at newsroom.co.nz, having previously served as political editor and foreign affairs and trade editor. In 2023 his book The China Tightrope: Navigating New Zealand’s relationship with a world superpower was included in NZIER’s 2023 ‘summer reading list for the Prime Minister’. Sam holds media and journalism qualifications from the University of Canterbury and Victoria University of Wellington, and has served as a reporter at The Press and as Chair of the Parliament Press Gallery.