Alison Mau | |
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| Born | (1965-02-14)14 February 1965 (age 60) |
| Other names | Ali Mau |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | Stuff |
| Organization(s) | The Sunday Star-Times,Stuff |
| Known for | The #metoonz project |
| Spouse(s) | Simon Dallow (m. 1996 div. 2009) |
| Children | 2 |
Alison Mau (/mɔː/)[1] (born 14 February 1965), known professionally asAli Mau, is an Australian-born New Zealandjournalist and broadcaster. She is a former television news anchor, former co-host of theTVNZ current affairs showSeven Sharp, former co-presenter of the consumer affairs showFair Go, and former co-host ofTVNZBreakfast programme.[2][3] Mau is a former talkback radio host onRadioLIVE, a nationwideAuckland-based New Zealandtalkback,news andsportradio network owned and operated byMediaWorks New Zealand.[4][5]
Mau is currently an Op-ed columnist atThe Sunday Star-Times weekend newspaper, and a contributor on theStuff news website.[6]
Mau currently leads a team of journalists atStuff in the recently launched 2018 national #metoonz investigation into sexual harassment in New Zealand, supported byStuff. The #metoonz project - which references the celebrity #metoo social movement - is for people who wanted to have a voice but didn't know where to go.[7] Editorial Director Mark Stevens said a team of journalists would help investigate the potential stories that emerged, and journalists Cecile Meier and Michelle Duff will work closely with Mau.[8] Mau confirmed toRadio New Zealand Mediawatch that she will respond to every person who gets in touch before any individual's stories are passed on to journalists.[9]
Born in Melbourne, Mau's first reporting job was for theWarracknabeal Herald in northernVictoria at age 18.[10] In 1984 she was hired by theMelbourne Herald. She moved to London in 1990 and presented and reported forWorld Business Report onBBC World.[11] She returned to Australia in 1993 but moved to New Zealand soon after, where she was soon employed byTVNZ.[11]
Her first television appearance was on the business-related current affairs showMade in New Zealand. Mau would later present late-night current affairs programming includingEyewitness andNewsnight, the latter of which she presented alongsideMarcus Lush and her future husbandSimon Dallow.[11]
After a period reporting forONE News, Mau began presenting theBreakfast programme withMike Hosking. She returned toONE News after the birth of her second child and, from 1999 to 2003, presented the weekend news alongside husband Simon Dallow. She returned toBreakfast in 2004 but left at the end of the year to join rival networkPrime Television, where she worked with former TVNZ presenterPaul Holmes.[11] She was made redundant from Prime when the station was taken over bySky in early 2006[10] and returned to TVNZ in 2008.
Upon her return to TVNZ, Mau worked as a back-up host forBreakfast and also appeared in other news, non-news, and current affairs shows including the home and lifestyle showHome Front, which she presented alongside futureDunedin mayorDave Cull.[2] In 2010, she became co-host of weekly consumer affairs programmeFair Go.
In 2013, she moved to co-host the nightly current affairs programmeSeven Sharp; in an interview given shortly after she left that programme, Mau stated that when she was recruited forSeven Sharp, the programme pitched to her was quite different from the one that eventuated. She also said that had she known what the show would be like, she "never would have left the job atFair Go".[12]
In 2014, Mau commenced a radio talkback host career atRadioLIVE.[2][4] She began the four-year gig at talkback station RadioLIVE, initially in an early afternoon co-host slot withWillie Jackson. She then moved to host the daily RadioLive Drive radio show. During her time with RadioLIVE, Mau also contributed as a fill-in host on 2014'sThe Paul Henry Show onTV3, which was simulcast on RadioLIVE and across multi-media platforms.[13]
In December 2017, Mau announced her departure from her daily RadioLIVE Drive radio show in February 2018. Mau said she had been "incredibly fortunate" to spend four years at the station learning the radio business. "Having spent my early career in print journalism – then more than 20 years in television – radio was a new frontier for me. I leave with a store of cross-platform skills I could only have dreamed of back then," Mau said. She would not be drawn on her plans for 2018, saying "it's a bit too early to make those details public".[5]
Mau is currently an Op-ed columnist atThe Sunday Star-Times weekend newspaper, and she is contributor on theStuff.co.nz news portal website, published by Fairfax Digital, a division ofFairfax New Zealand Ltd.[6]
Mau currently leads a team of journalists atStuff investigating sexual harassment in New Zealand. Mau launched the 2018 national #metoonz investigation into sexual harassment, supported byStuff. She says it is an opportunity for Kiwis - mainly women, but men too - to bring their tormentors to account. The #metoonz project - which references the celebrity #metoo social movement - is for people who wanted to have a voice but didn't know where to go.[8] She felt the size of New Zealand had held back the #metoo movement, with women and men reluctant to speak out for fear of losing their jobs or their careers in our smaller industries.[14]Stuff's Editorial Director Mark Stevens said a team of journalists would help investigate the potential stories that emerged, and journalists Cecile Meier and Michelle Duff will work closely with Ms Mau.[8] Mau confirmed toRadio New Zealand Mediawatch that she will respond to every person who gets in touch before any individual's stories are passed on to journalists.[9]
Mau metSimon Dallow on aContiki Tours tour in Europe in 1989. The pair began working together at TVNZ in 1994 and married in 1996. The couple divorced in 2009. They have two children.[10] In 2010, following rumours of a same-sex relationship, she stated publicly that she is bisexual.[15] She became engaged to Karleen Edmonds in February 2012.[16]
'Mau' is pronounced Moore, is of German origin, and everyone says it wrong.
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