PM guest edits tomorrow’s special suffrage edition
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joins the Herald editorial team tonight as the guest editor of the 125th Suffrage edition, to be published tomorrow.
The commemorative edition will mark the anniversary of New Zealand women winning the right to vote on September 19, 1893, becoming the first country in the world to do so.
“It’s a huge honour to be asked to guest edit the Suffrage 125 anniversary edition of the New Zealand Herald,” Ardern said. “It’s an assignment I’m approaching with a great sense of responsibility.”
She said that to “try and summarise 125 years of women’s experience in one issue of the newspaper is an impossible task” but the edition would cover “where we’ve been, where we are right now, and where we’re going”.
Herald premium content editor Miriyana Alexander said Ardern was a fitting guest editor for the occasion and was full of great story ideas. She had commissioned several pieces for tomorrow’s special edition, and had also written a personal essay.
“And the Prime Minister will join us in the newsroom tonight to send the paper to the presses. As well as celebrating trailblazing Kiwi women and their achievements, the edition also acknowledges the efforts of all New Zealand women. It is a real keepsake edition.”
A special live broadcast will also air from the Herald newsroom tonight, from 7pm to 8.30pm, to capture all the action behind the scenes as the Prime Minister puts the finishing touches to the edition. It will stream live on nzherald.co.nz and across our social channels.
Hosted by Laura McGoldrick and Joanna Hunkin, the coverage will include the story behind the Trailblazers: 125 Kiwi Women Who Changed the World project.