Rebecca Macfie

Rebecca Macfie is a New Zealand author and journalist.

Rebecca Macfie
OccupationJournalist, author
ResidenceChristchurch, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealander
Alma materUniversity of Otago, University of Canterbury
Notable worksTragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died
Notable awardsNZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction, Bert Roth Award for Excellence in Labour History
Website
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Background

Macfie lives in Christchurch, New Zealand.[1] She has a BA and Post Graduate Diploma in Arts in History from the University of Otago, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Canterbury.[2] She has an adult son and an adult daughter.[1]

Career

Macfie has worked as a journalist since 1988. In 2007 Macfie joined the New Zealand Listener as a writer for the South Island. She has also wbeen published with The Star, The Press, National Business Review, Independent Business Weekly, North & South, Unlimited, and the New Zealand Herald.[1][3]

In 2013 she published Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died,[4] a non-fiction work on the Pike River Mine disaster that claimed 29 lives.[5]

Awards

For her work with the New Zealand Listener Macfie won the Magazine Feature Writer Business and Politics Award at the 2014 Canon Media Awards[6] and the Magazine Feature Writer Business & Science Award at the 2013 Canon Media Awards.[7] At the 2016 Canon Media Awards, Macfie won the 'Feature writing – politics' and 'Feature writing – health' categories, as well as the Wolfson Fellowship.[8] In 2018, Macfie won the Voyager Media Award for 'Feature writing – business or personal finance' for two articles, on the environmental and economic risks of climate change, and the development of animal free protein.

In 2012 she won the Bruce Jesson Senior Journalism Grant to develop a book on the Pike River Mine disaster (later published as Tragedy at Pike River Mine).[9] The book then won the 2014 NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction at the New Zealand Post Book Awards,[10] the 2014 Bert Roth Award for Excellence in Labour History,[11] and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy media award.[2]

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References
  1. "Rebecca Macfie". Noted. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  2. "Rebecca Macfie". HASANZ. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  3. "Rebecca Macfie". BWB Bridget Williams Books. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  4. Macfie, Rebecca (2013). Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died. Awa Press. ISBN 9781877551901.
  5. "'New material' in Pike disaster book". Australia's Mining Monthly. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  6. "2014 winners". Canon Media Awards. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  7. "2013 winners". Canon Media Awards. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  8. "Canon Media Awards 2016: winners, losers, drunks, takeovers, new players and golden gods". 23 May 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  9. "Senior Journalism Grant Winners". The Bruce Jesson Foundation. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  10. "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  11. "2014 Bert Roth Award". Labour History Project. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
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