Du Val Podcast

Maria Slade is the NZ Shareholders Association 2021 Business Journalist of the year and was runner-up in the 2021 Citi Journalism Awards. She joined BusinessDesk in 2024 from NBR where she was a senior journalist. Prior to that she was business editor of the Spinoff. Slade has worked for most major NZ media outlets including NZ Herald, Stuff, Newstalk ZB and RNZ, and is the author of a how-to book for house hunters, Buyer Beware: A New Zealand Home Buyer’s Guide.