Kirsty Cameron

Editor

Kirsty is an experienced journalist, editor and publisher. She was a writer, editor and editorial executive for Time Inc Magazines in Sydney, a period of 13 years which also saw her work as bureau chief in Los Angeles, and as the launch editor of InStyle Australia. Prior to joining Time Inc, Kirsty was a journalist and political columnist at The Australian newspaper. She began her journalism career with Radio New Zealand. 

Kirsty worked for both ACP and NZ Magazines companies in senior editorial roles on her return to New Zealand. Recently she has managed her own business, publishing community magazines and custom titles. 

Tess Nichol

Deputy Editor

Tess spent the first years of her journalism career as a reporter at the New Zealand Herald, after which she worked for Metro magazine as a feature writer and digital editor until Bauer closed in April 2020.

She has a deep love of journalism and its potential to do good in the world, and a particular fondness for print. She now counts herself as an Aucklander after spending most of her life as a Wellingtonian, but don’t hold that against her.

George Driver

South Island Correspondent

George’s writing career began as a five-year-old when he won a Central Otago writing competition for a story about befriending an alien. It was another 20 years before he landed his first paid writing gig, as a reporter for Warkworth community newspaper, Mahurangi Matters. He went on to work for Wilderness magazine and has freelanced for the country’s major publications including the Sunday Star Times, RNZ, The Listener and The Spinoff.

He’s now back writing in Clyde, where it all began.

Kim Blewett

Commercial Director

Kim fell in love with magazines as a teenager, when she’d walk to her local bookstore to collect her special order copy of Seventeen magazine — though she also loved the NZ Listener growing up and can even remember the old large format.

Over her career in advertising sales she’s worked on titles including the Listener, North & South, Metro, Fashion Quarterly and NZ Woman’s Weekly.

After Bauer’s closure in 2020 she worked with the team that launched School Road Publishing before coming back to work on North & South again — she’s stoked to be part of the team again. Kim says she loves how New Zealand is reflected within the pages of North & South, and how the images selected capture the essence of what makes us different to every other country in the world.

Danielle Butler

Communications & Administration Executive

Danielle joined the North & South team after graduating from AUT with a Bachelor of Communications. Originally wanting to work in the radio industry, she was fascinated by and quickly drawn to the exciting and creative industry that was communications and social media. To help kickstart her future career within this industry, Danielle completed various volunteer and internship roles which led her to taking on her current position at North & South.