Sarah Robson got her start in journalism at the age of 16, writing for the youth magazine Tearaway. While studying at Victoria University of Wellington, she started writing for the student magazine, Salient. She worked her way up the ranks, from news writer, to feature writer, to editor in 2010.
Robson was named Junior Magazine Feature Writer of the Year at the 2010 Qantas Media Awards for a selection of features published in Salient throughout 2009. She has also done stints at Radio New Zealand, Herald on Sunday and Idealog.
She completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in political science at Victoria in 2009 and completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Communications Studies (Journalism) at AUT in 2011.
Robson is now a reporter for NZ Newswire, the Australian Associated Press news agency in New Zealand, based in the Auckland bureau.
She has been a contributor to PMC Online and Pacific Scoop while on the Asia-Pacific Journalism paper. She is also one of three recipients of the 2012 Pacific Media Centre international internships and the AUT/China Daily Exchange Programme, in conjunction with the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
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