Howard Smith

'His writing shows perception, depth and humanity' - Fanny Waterman

Howard Smith is a British journalist, adjudicator, editor and photographer, internationally recognised as an authoritative music and travel writer. For some years he was a senior interviewer/writer, TV and arts critic with the then Dominion/Sunday Times in Wellington, New Zealand, later becoming the sole leader writer for the China Mail in Hong Kong.

From the mid 1970s until 1987 he worked for Thomson Regional Newspapers (TRN) in North East England, writing extensively on arts, travel, and news background topics. Subsequently, from his base in Minneapolis, MN, USA, he provided copy for a variety of outlets throughout the American mid-west.

From the mid 1990s he worked for APN in New Zealand, also occasionally supplying stories for the major dailies in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. At the same time he supplied notes for the NZ International Festival of the Arts and articles for The Listener, North & South, the Sunday Star-Times and major dailies in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Since the dawn of the 3rd Millennium he has been on assignments in Hatsukaichi, Japan; Almaty, Kazakhstan; Noumea, New Caledonia; Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Pacific Russia; and Uralsk, Kazakhstan.

For three years he broadcast for Arrow FM Radio (New Zealand) and lectured in specialist journalism at Whitireia Polytechnic, just outside Wellington. He is a regular contributor to Music & Vision.

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