Graham Reid | |
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| Born | Edinburgh, Scotland |
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| Website | elsewhere |
Graham Reid is a New Zealand journalist, author, broadcaster, and arts educator. His music and film reviews have appeared inThe New Zealand Herald since the late 1980s. His website,Elsewhere, provides features and reports on music, film, travel and other cultural issues. He is the author of two travel books, published byRandom House.
Reid was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, as was his mother;[1] his father grew up in New Zealand, the son of Scottish immigrants.[2] Reid was the founding editor ofPassages magazine.[3] He then worked as a journalist withThe New Zealand Herald for seventeen years before leaving to become a freelance writer[4] in 2004.[5] He has been recognised for his excellence in the field of journalism, as a multiple winner at the annualQantas Media Awards andCathay Pacific's travel awards.[6] In 2003, he won theUnited Nations Association of Australia'sMedia Peace Award for his coverage of thevolatile political situation in the Solomon Islands.[6]
Reid was the New Zealand correspondent forBillboard magazine for five years.[3] He has participated in music-related programs forRadio New Zealand,[7] among other work as a commentator on radio.[4] Since 2010, he has appeared as a presenter and featured writer at the Creative Hub, located at Auckland's Waterfront Writing Centre.[4] In November 2012, he hosted apop culture event titled "Shooting the Beatles and Creating the Sixties" at theAuckland Art Gallery.[8]
When announcing Reid's choice for the top albums of 2013,Independent Music New Zealand (IMNZ) wrote of him as the "prodigious reviewer Graham Reid of Elsewhere".[9] His websiteElsewhere covers a variety of arts-related topics,[4] includingjazz andworld music. The music journalism archiveRock's Backpages describes it as "a New Zealand on-line magazine about music, travel and the arts".[10]
Reid continues to write articles and music, film and book reviews for theHerald.[11] He has also written for theNew Zealand Listener,[12]The Australian,Metro,Art News,Real Groove,Idealog,Life and Leisure andWeekend magazine.[3] InAUT University's 2013 study ofThe New Zealand Herald, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the newspaper's founding, Reid was named among six "terrific contributors to a masthead which symbolises the Auckland establishment".[13]
His first book wasPostcards from Elsewhere, which won the 2006Whitcoulls' Travel Book of the Year award. In 2010, his bookThe Idiot Boy Who Flew was the winner of Whitcoulls' annual Readers' Choice Award.[3] As an educator, Reid has lectured in journalism and feature writing at AUT, and in contemporary music at theUniversity of Auckland.[4]