Dr Gavin Ellis ONZM is an honorary research fellow at Koi Tū: The Centre
for Informed Futures. He is a media consultant, commentator and researcher with
more than five decades of experience in news media.. A former editor-in-chief of the
New Zealand Herald, he lectured on media and communications at the University of
Auckland for a decade.
He is the author of three books and numerous research papers including a
series on the Christchurch mosque attacks. In May, Koi Tū published his paper that
examined the state of journalism in New Zealand and how it can be sustained.