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Vanessa Ellingham

Guest writer

Vanessa Ellingham (Taranaki, Te Ātiawa, Ngāruahine) is a journalist and editor living in Berlin. She publishes a magazine about migrants of all kinds called NANSEN.

Image: Tina Tiller

Fry bread’s global history, from Native America to Aotearoa

Parāoa parai is kai Māori, but it also connects us to our indigenous whānau overseas.

By Vanessa Ellingham | 6th April, 2024

Image: Getty / Archi Banal

I learnt to drive in both Germany and Aotearoa – the differences were stark

Do they make it too complicated. Or do we make it too easy?

By Vanessa Ellingham | 25th January, 2023

RIP Nakedbus

‘Do you have to be naked to get those $1 seats?’: a former employee remembers Nakedbus

Low-cost bus company Nakedbus shut down this July to the disappointment of students, non-drivers and people who needed to travel for cheap all over New Zealand.

By Vanessa Ellingham | 18th September, 2018

What a smash hit Norwegian webseries has to teach NZ On Air about teen viewers

By Vanessa Ellingham | 23rd August, 2017