Mark Broatch

Mark Broatch is an Auckland-based journalist who rejoined the NZ Listener as deputy editor after being chief subeditor in 2007/08. He was assistant editor at the Sunday Star-Times and launch editor of the Culture section. He is the author of In a Word: The Essential Tool for Finding the Perfect Word, and Get the Net. In 2011 he was awarded a Buddle Findlay Sargeson fellowship to work on a novel. He is still working on that and several other non-fiction manuscripts. Despite gaining an MA in English from The University of Auckland, he most enjoys writing about science. (Twitter: @MarkBroatch)

Eight questions about cancer

By Mark Broatch in Health

Issue Listener Plus 9th Dec 2013

A brief Q & A with best-selling science writer George Johnson.

Cancer: chronicle of a killer

By Mark Broatch in Current Affairs

Issue 3840 5th Dec 2013

When his wife was struck by a late-stage cancer, science writer George Johnson immersed himself in the latest research aimed at unlocking medicine’s deepest mystery.

Review: Words of the World and other books on language

By Mark Broatch in Books

Issue Listener Plus 29th Nov 2013

You have to go to German for the lovingly rude “Von hinten Lyzeum, von vorne Museum” (“From behind a girls’ school, from the front a museum”).

After the typhoon

By Mark Broatch in Current Affairs

Issue 3838 25th Nov 2013

A Kiwi who runs a business in the Philippines is trying to help typhoon victims the best way he knows: by keeping them employed.

Charge of the lite brigade

By Mark Broatch in Current Affairs

Issue 3837 14th Nov 2013

Electric and hybrid cars are steadily gaining ground, but is the technology ready for prime time and where can you get a top-up?

Dara Ó Briain: it's a funny business

By Mark Broatch in Entertainment

Issue 3835 4th Nov 2013

Dara Ó Briain talks to Mark Broatch about comedy, science and which of his gigs is the drinking show.

Eleanor Catton: literary luminary

By Mark Broatch in Books

Issue 3831 17th Oct 2013

Man Booker Prize-winner Eleanor Catton talks about pushing the limits, dealing with unfavourable reviews and why New Zealand fiction is about to take off.