An address by Anna Fifield
Anna Fifield
Thursday, 21 May 2026 2:00pm
Hawke's Bay
Havelock North Club, 8 Campbell Street, Havelock North
Our speaker will be Anna Fifield, former Asia-Pacific Editor of the Washington Post (until February this year), and before that Editor of the Dominion Post in Wellington.
Anna was a foreign correspondent for international newspapers for 20 years, writing for the Financial Times and the Washington Post on postings in Seoul, Tehran, Beirut, Washington DC, Tokyo and, most recently, Beijing. She was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University in 2013-14 and was awarded Stanford University's Shorenstein Prize in 2018 for her reporting on Asia. Her highly acclaimed book "The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong-Un" has been translated into 24 languages.
The usual door charge of $8 will apply, to cover venue hire and afternoon tea costs
Our speaker will be Anna Fifield, former Asia-Pacific Editor of the Washington Post (until February this year), and before that Editor of the Dominion Post in Wellington.
Anna was a foreign correspondent for international newspapers for 20 years, writing for the Financial Times and the Washington Post on postings in Seoul, Tehran, Beirut, Washington DC, Tokyo and, most recently, Beijing. She was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University in 2013-14 and was awarded Stanford University's Shorenstein Prize in 2018 for her reporting on Asia. Her highly acclaimed book "The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong-Un" has been translated into 24 languages.
The usual door charge of $8 will apply, to cover venue hire and afternoon tea costs
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