Reporter joins ODT Queenstown

The Otago Daily Times' newest reporter, Joe Dodgshun, has joined the paper's busy Queenstown bureau.

Mr Dodgshun (22) will be working for both the ODT and the Queenstown Times.

He graduates from the University of Canterbury post-graduate journalism course this April, and since completing the course last year, visited the Antarctic on a month-long media scholarship.

Originally from Gisborne, Mr Dodgshun (pronounced `dodge-shun') spent four years at university in Christchurch where he hosted a weekly music show on bNet radio station, RDU, and has written for the Gisborne Herald and NZ Musician magazine.

Mr Dodgshun can be contacted at the Queenstown Otago Daily Times office on (03) 442-6157, on cellphone, 0273187598 or by email, joe.dodgshun@odt.co.nz