Portacom City: Reporting on the Christchurch and Kaikōura earthquakes
Paul Gorman
Dec 2017 · BWB Texts Book 63 · Bridget Williams Books
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The ripples the earthquake sent across the region and down the years continue to affect our lives, our livelihoods and endeavours.
On 4 September 2010, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck 30 kilometres west of Christchurch. Half a year later, a 6.3 aftershock hit Christchurch, killing 185 people and causing widespread damage throughout the city. In November 2016, multiple faults ruptured near Kaikōura in a massive 7.8 earthquake.
Paul Gorman reported on the Christchurch and Kaikōura earthquakes. In Portacom City he describes his own deeply personal story of working as a journalist during the quakes, while also speaking more broadly about the challenges that confront reporters at times of crisis.
On 4 September 2010, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck 30 kilometres west of Christchurch. Half a year later, a 6.3 aftershock hit Christchurch, killing 185 people and causing widespread damage throughout the city. In November 2016, multiple faults ruptured near Kaikōura in a massive 7.8 earthquake.
Paul Gorman reported on the Christchurch and Kaikōura earthquakes. In Portacom City he describes his own deeply personal story of working as a journalist during the quakes, while also speaking more broadly about the challenges that confront reporters at times of crisis.
About the author
Paul Gorman is now an assistant editor at the Otago Daily Times in Dunedin, following a brief stint at the University of Otago. However, for much of the time he was writing this book he was a senior writer at The Press in Christchurch, where he was also editor of the weekly Fairfax Media science page, ‘Catalyst’. He has won two Qantas Awards: the best investigation of the year award in 2006 for uncovering Transpower’s overseas South Island electricity grid deals, and science and environment reporter of the year in 2008 for stories on the controversies surrounding A2 milk. He was also a finalist in 2011 and 2013 in the renamed Canon Awards for his science reporting on the Canterbury earthquakes.
He was editor of the Press’s most recent book on the earthquakes, A City Recovers: Christchurch Two Years After the Quakes (Random House, 2013), was a contributing author for the first two quake books, Earthquake: Christchurch, New Zealand, 22 February 2011 (Random House, 2011) and The Big Quake: Canterbury, September 4, 2010 (Random House, 2010), and was co-author of Snow Storm: The South Island’s Big Chill (Random House, 2006).
Before joining The Press in 2002 he worked for the University of Canterbury, the Otago Daily Times and the New Zealand Meteorological Service. He has a BSc in physical geography and a GradDipJ, both from Canterbury University. Born in London, he emigrated to New Zealand at the age of nearly ten. He is married to Lucie and has three sons – Joseph, Ambrose and Bede.
He was editor of the Press’s most recent book on the earthquakes, A City Recovers: Christchurch Two Years After the Quakes (Random House, 2013), was a contributing author for the first two quake books, Earthquake: Christchurch, New Zealand, 22 February 2011 (Random House, 2011) and The Big Quake: Canterbury, September 4, 2010 (Random House, 2010), and was co-author of Snow Storm: The South Island’s Big Chill (Random House, 2006).
Before joining The Press in 2002 he worked for the University of Canterbury, the Otago Daily Times and the New Zealand Meteorological Service. He has a BSc in physical geography and a GradDipJ, both from Canterbury University. Born in London, he emigrated to New Zealand at the age of nearly ten. He is married to Lucie and has three sons – Joseph, Ambrose and Bede.
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