Samoan media industry

Intern appreciates experience immersed in Samoan media industry

He says it went beyond a work placement to a cultural experience and kiwi journalists should be the voice of the Pacific people.

In many ways, it was the Pacific herself that helped guide Brandon Ulfsby’s career direction, with the Cook Island Kiwi seeing journalism as a platform for his pacific people.

“As a young brown person from South Auckland it isn't hard to see that often my communities were unheard by the rest of New Zealand and that we need change,” he says.