The Guardian Australia announces its New Zealand coverage and lifestyle offering led by Alyx Gorman

The Guardian Australia has expanded its reporting to New Zealand, in a move that international news editor, Bonnie Malkin, described as “percolating for a quite a long time”.

Speaking at an event last night, Malkin said the expansion came about after the publication noticed an appetite for the Guardian’s content in New Zealand.

“We noticed that a lot of readers in New Zealand read our stories about New Zealand and there’s an appetite in the country for Guardian journalism,” Malkin said. “And so last year when we decided that we were going to start thinking about the strategy for the Guardian Australia, New Zealand seemed like a natural fit.”