Jim Tucker started his journalism career in 1965 as a 18-year-old cadet at the Taranaki Herald, where he spent the next 11 years before moving to the Auckland Star. There, Tucker led a team that created the first major newspaper set up in New Zealand since the 1920s, the Sunday Star (now Sunday Star Times).
In 1987, Tucker emerged from the trenches to start teaching the next generation, eventually taking up positions as the head of journalism schools at Auckland University of Technology, Western Institute of Technology and Whitireia Polytechnic.
In 2021, he was made an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit for services to journalism. Now in semi-retirement in Taranaki, Tucker has been reflecting on his life as a member of the fourth estate, and has been putting together his memoirs.
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