Alison Mau

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Alison Mau
Born (1965-02-14) 14 February 1965 (age 59)
The Sunday Star-Times, Stuff
Known forThe #metoonz project
Spouse(s)Simon Dallow (m. 1996 div. 2009)
Karleen Edmonds
​
(m. 2013)​
Children2

Alison Mau (

news and sport radio network owned and operated by MediaWorks New Zealand.[4][5]

Mau is currently an Op-ed columnist at

The Sunday Star-Times weekend newspaper, and a contributor on the Stuff news website.[6]

Mau currently leads a team of journalists at

Stuff. 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 to Radio 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]

Career

Born in Melbourne, Mau's first reporting job was for the

BBC World.[11] She returned to Australia in 1993 but moved to New Zealand soon after, where she was soon employed by TVNZ.[11]

Her first television appearance was on the business-related current affairs show Made in New Zealand. Mau would later present late-night current affairs programming including Eyewitness and Newsnight, the latter of which she presented alongside Marcus Lush and her future husband Simon Dallow.[11]

After a period reporting for

Sky in early 2006[10]
and returned to TVNZ in 2008.

Upon her return to TVNZ, Mau worked as a back-up host for Breakfast and also appeared in other news, non-news, and current affairs shows including the home and lifestyle show

Dunedin mayor Dave Cull.[2] In 2010, she became co-host of weekly consumer affairs programme Fair Go
.

In 2013, she moved to co-host the nightly current affairs programme Seven Sharp; in an interview given shortly after she left that programme, Mau stated that when she was recruited for Seven 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 at Fair Go".[12]

In 2014, Mau commenced a radio talkback host career at

TV3, 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 at

Fairfax New Zealand Ltd.[6]

Mau currently leads a team of journalists at

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 to Radio 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]

Personal life

Mau met Simon Dallow on a Contiki 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]

See also

References

  1. Stuff.co.nz. Archived
    from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018. 'Mau' is pronounced Moore, is of German origin, and everyone says it wrong.
  2. ^ a b c "Profile: Ali Mau". TVNZ. Archived from the original on 4 April 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  3. ^ http://www.noted.co.nz/archive/listener-nz-2014/the-divine-ms-m/
  4. ^ a b "Alison Mau to leave Seven Sharp". Stuff.co.nz. Fairfax NZ News. 17 December 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Ali Mau to leave RadioLive Drive after four years". 30 December 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Alison Mau: What I'll be giving up in 2018". 30 December 2017.
  7. ^ Huffadine, Leith (28 February 2018). "Alison Mau launches #metoonz investigation into sexual harassment in New Zealand". Stuff. Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  8. ^ a b c "Alison Mau launches #metoonz investigation into sexual harassment in New Zealand". 28 February 2018.
  9. ^ a b "MeToo media campaign inundated with messages". 7 March 2018.
  10. ^ a b c Glucina, Rachel (7 February 2010). "Revealed: Ali Mau's new lady love romance". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
  11. ^ a b c d "Alison Mau". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  12. ^ "Mau in dark over Seven Sharp sacking". The New Zealand Herald. 21 December 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  13. ^ "Alison Mau | NZ on Screen".
  14. ^ "Alison Mau launches #metoo NZ sexual harassment investigation". Newshub.
  15. ^ Alison Mau comes out: "Yes, I'm bisexual" Archived 30 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 6 November 2010
  16. ^ Tapaleao, Vaimoana (2 March 2012). "Family thrilled at Ali Mau proposal". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2 March 2012.

External links

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