Mary Anne Gill is a senior writer at Good Local Media and is one of Waikato’s most experienced communications and public relations practitioners. She started her newspaper career working in advertising at the Portsmouth News in the UK, then later at the Auckland Star and 8 O’Clock newspaper. She later moved into journalism, working for Whanganui Chronicle, The Taranaki Daily News, then owned and operated her own community newspaper called the Ruapehu Press in Taumarunui, before moving north to the Waikato Times. During her time at the Waikato Times she won several national writing awards including three times at the Qantas Media Awards (now Voyager). In 2007, she took up a communications leadership role at Waikato District Health Board, then at Rotorua Lakes Council, and then spent five years at Life Unlimited Charitable Trust. She returned to community newspaper journalism joining Good Local Media in 2021, works on contract for Enrich Group, a charitable trust in Te Awamutu, and does other writing work.