David Hastings is a journalist, writer and English teacher based in Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked in London, Melbourne and Auckland in newspapers and in broadcasting. He was TV news editor at the ABC in Melbourne from 1983 to 1987. In Auckland, he worked for the New Zealand Herald where he was deputy editor from 2001 to 2011 and editor of the Weekend Herald from 2011 until his retirement in 2013. He studied journalism at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in the 1970s and has an MA (hons) in history from the University of Auckland. After retiring from newspaper work he retrained as an English language teacher completing his Cambridge CELTA course in 2016 and subsequently taught at the NZLC language school in Auckland.
