Graham Reid is a New Zealand journalist, author, broadcaster, and arts educator. His music and film reviews have appeared in ''

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'' since the late 1980s. His website, ''Elsewhere'', provides features and reports on music, film, travel and other cultural issues. He is the author of two travel books, published by

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Career

Reid was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, as was his mother; his father grew up in New Zealand, the son of Scottish immigrants. Reid was the founding editor of ''Passages'' magazine. He then worked as a journalist with ''The New Zealand Herald'' for seventeen years before leaving to become a freelance writer in 2004. He has been recognised for his excellence in the field of journalism, as a multiple winner at the annual

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and

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's travel awards. In 2003, he won the

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's Media Peace Award for his coverage of the volatile political situation in the Solomon Islands. Reid was the New Zealand correspondent for ''

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'' magazine for five years. He has participated in music-related programs for

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, among other work as a commentator on radio. Since 2010, he has appeared as a presenter and featured writer at the Creative Hub, located at Auckland's Waterfront Writing Centre. In November 2012, he hosted a

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event titled "Shooting the Beatles and Creating the Sixties" at the

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. When announcing Reid's choice for the top albums of 2013, Independent Music New Zealand (IMNZ) wrote of him as the "prodigious reviewer Graham Reid of Elsewhere". His website ''Elsewhere'' covers a variety of arts-related topics, including

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and world music. The music journalism archive

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describes it as "a New Zealand on-line magazine about music, travel and the arts". Reid continues to write articles and music, film and book reviews for the ''Herald''. He has also written for the ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Metro'', ''Art News'', ''

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'', ''Idealog'', ''Life and Leisure'' and ''Weekend'' magazine. In

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's 2013 study of ''The New Zealand Herald'', on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the newspaper's founding, Reid was named among six "terrific contributors to a masthead which symbolises the Auckland establishment". His first book was ''Postcards from Elsewhere'', which won the 2006

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' Travel Book of the Year award. In 2010, his book ''The Idiot Boy Who Flew'' was the winner of Whitcoulls' annual Readers' Choice Award. As an educator, Reid has lectured in journalism and feature writing at AUT, and in contemporary music at the

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References

External links

"Music reviews, travel writing, the arts, interviews: Elsewhere by Graham Reid"
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