Suzanne McFadden

Suzanne McFadden is an award-winning journalist who has written in the New Zealand media for over three decades, specialising in capturing the essence of people and sport. She was the 2021 New Zealand Sports Journalist of the Year, and a finalist in the Women of Influence Awards. She was a regular contributing writer to Newsroom.co.nz at its inception in early 2017, before becoming the foundation editor of LockerRoom, a section within Newsroom dedicated solely to women’s sport in 2018. And now, Suzanne McFadden is writing original content for Live Sail Die! Check out her fourth article in the "Salt of the Earth" series - a collection of stories focusing on sailors around New Zealand who are contributing to the sport in their own unique way, most of the time while out of the spotlight.