Gordon Chesterman is a “son” of Hamilton, born at the Campbell Johnstone maternity wing of Waikato Hospital in 1943. He was educated at Whitiora Primary, Maeroa Intermediate and Hamilton Boys High School.
He began his media career as a cadet reporter in 1960 at the Waikato Times, later working on major newspapers in Sydney, Australia. His career includes time in the Pacific Islands where he helped launch a successful national daily newspaper in Fiji with celebrated American television actor, the late Raymond “Ironsides” Burr.
A former associate editor of the Sunday News, and managing editor of a national radio news service, Gordon has also been a former associate news editor of the Waikato Times, editor of Hamilton Press and the award winning Cambridge Independent.
In 1978 he established a public relations and media consultancy which he sold in 1982 to move with his family to the United States where he became president of the Woolrest Corporation in both America and Canada.
Returning to Hamilton in 1986, he launched a new advertising, public relations, direct marketing, design and research company.
He sold this consultancy 10 years later to begin a new phase of his career as a company director and trustee.
The winner of many international and national awards for journalism, public relations and marketing, he is a former national president of the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand and is one of eight Life Members.
Water under the bridge
Water under the bridge
General InterestAuthor: Gordon Chesterman
ISBN: 9780473086670
a Collection of Waikato Times Columns
Foreword by Venetia Sherson – Editor Waikato Times
“Gordon Chesterman likes to recount that when he and I met, I was just a ‘gymslip’ of a girl. We were both journalists – he a worldly figure with a formidable reputation in newspaper circles; me a wide-eyed cadet reporter.
“In all the years I’ve known him, he has never lost his passion for news, nor his interest in the minutae of people’s lives. That is what made him a good reporter and editor.
“I invited Gordon to join the Waikato Times’ stable of columnists in 2001 because I knew he would bring to the page humour, anger, concern, sadness and nostalgia. He has delivered all of those and more. His subjects are diverse, ranging from ructions at City Hall, to a boxing match at Las Vegas, to the pleasures of drinking latte at a pavement cafe.
“One of the things I most enjoy about Gordon (apart from a shared love of newspapers) is his passion for Hamilton and the Waikato. Although he has lived and worked overseas, he has chosen to settle in the city where he grew up, and he writes about his home with knowledge and affection. His columns are about Waikato issues and Waikato people and they are the better for that. They are a weekly comment on the events that shape our lives.
“In his first year with the newspaper, Gordon has developed a loyal following as a columnist. He also attracts a fair share of letters to the editor – not all of them supportive. That shows he is read – and more importantly that he makes people think… That, of course, is the mark of a successful columnist.”
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