JudithFyfe
- Writer
- Journalist
Judith Fyfe’s career in broadcasting has placed her before and behind the cameras. A celebrated oral historian, she began in television as a reporter, and later worked on consumer rights show Fair Go and pioneering drama Marching Girls. She was a core element in Gaylene Preston’s acclaimed documentary War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us, and co-founded the Oral History Archive at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Screenography
Biography
Reporter, researcher and oral historian Judith Fyfe once used her hometown of Martinborough as subject matter. The title of documentary The World, Population 1300 is a nod to the fact that the town's population has hovered at that mark since her birth. One side of Fyfe’s family is dotted with lawyers, but she left her single-sex private school at 15, looking for something else. She gravitated towards new Masterton radio station 2ZD, where she thinks she "probably started out as a receptionist”. Soon she was their roving shopping reporter. The job entailed a "solid half hour of ad-libbing, which was very good training".
Awards
2008 New Zealand Order of Merit
For services to oral history and journalism
“All my life in broadcasting I never had ambitions, but I got offered the most wonderful stuff.”
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