Finlay Macdonald

Finlay Macdonald is a journalist, editor, publisher and broadcaster with over 30 years’ experience in the New Zealand media. He was editor of the New Zealand Listener magazine from 1997 to 2004, and later a publisher at Penguin Books and HarperCollins. He has been an award-winning weekly columnist for the Sunday Star-Times and has written and presented for television and radio. He lives in Auckland with his wife, and despite their children now being grown up, can still recite Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy from memory.