Tara Ross

Asia Media Centre Editorial Advisory Group member, head of the journalism program at the University of Canterbury

Tara Ross is a senior lecturer and head of the journalism program at the University of Canterbury, where she is also a research fellow with the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies.

Before taking up a role in academia, she was an award-winning senior reporter for The Press and Sunday Star-Times newspapers and has worked both as a freelance writer and editor, including for community news publications. She is of Pākehā and Tuvaluan descent, and her research interests include inclusive journalism, ethnic minority media and Pacific media.