Aroha Awarau

Who is Aroha Awarau?

Aroha Edward Awarau is an award winning journalist who won the 2008 New Zealand Magazine Journalist of the Year at the annual Magazine Publisher’s Association Award. He was a finalist again for the same award in 2011 and 2012. In 2013 he was awarded the NZ Celebrity and Entertainment magazine journalist of the year at the Magazine Publisher's Award.

He is a former news editor for the Woman's Day magazine, and is currently a senior writer at New Zealand Woman's Weekly.

Awarau has a degree in Film and Television from the University of Waikato and a Journalism degree from the Auckland University of Technology. After leaving Waikato university in 1998, Awarau worked in the New Zealand film industry for two years, working on films such as What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? and The Price of Milk.

Awarau also had a short stint as a stand up comedian, becoming a finalist in the Raw Quest, a national competition to find the best new comedian and appeared as a contestant in the reality show, So You Think You’re Funny?, a competition to find New Zealand’s funniest new comedian.