Bryce Johns is the editor of the Waikato Times. He was appointed editor in September 2003 after previously working as the sports editor of the Dominion Post in Wellington.
Bryce has also worked in general reporting and sub editing roles and spent four years as the chief reporter at the Northern Advocate in Whangarei.
He is also an accomplished sportsman and has played soccer at Northern and Central League level for more than 15 years.
He started a career in journalism at the Wanganui Chronicle and Herald newspapers in the late 1980s and has also worked on the Dominion and the Evening Post in Wellington.
His start in journalism came by chance when the editor of the Wanganui papers, Jim McLees, went to his school and told the Wanganui Boys College students he was looking for a sports reporter. Bryce was the only one to indicate an interest and was hired the next day.
That's all changed now, with more than 95% if journalists hired off polytechnic and university courses. It's a move Bryce says has benefitted the industry.
"Now we're getting people in the door who know how to write, type and interview. I had a humbling few months at the start where everything I wrote was thrown back in my face."
Bryce says Wanganui Boys College was a school he loved attending and his passions - sport and English subjects like writing and debating - were well catered for.
Bryce has travelled to many places around the Pacific and Europe, but mainly as a holidayer.
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