Connect Content is a collaboration of content creators corralled by journalist, broadcaster and award-winning documentary maker Teresa Cowie. It brings together Teresa’s 20 years of multimedia expertise and the best production professionals in the business to tell your story, your way.
A bit about Head of Content, Teresa…
Teresa is a podcast producer, presenter, documentary maker and journalist. For RNZ she has presented two seasons of live morning news programme Summer Report and more than 30 documentaries for the long-running current affairs series Insight. She hosted and produced the podcast Water on newsroom.co.nz and Executive Produced Inside the Bubble for The Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
Prior to returning home to Aotearoa Teresa worked in London on City Hospital, the hit BBC One medical documentary watched by over a million viewers daily. She is a graduate of the BBC’s prestigious Production Management Trainee Scheme and worked at the public broadcaster in both factual television production and as a broadcast journalist on the BBC News Channel’s peak news time programme The 5 o’clock News Hour with Huw Edwards and cinema review show Film 24. In 2019 she won the New Zealand Radio Awards prize for Best Documentary for Imprisoned by meth.
See Teresa’s C.V. and awards here: LinkedIn
Contact Teresa to talk through your next project
Our Work
Photo: Westland District Council/Hannah Gardner
My Future … It’s Our Future
The Mayor’s Taskforce for Jobs wanted a video that would showcase the potential of Westland’s young people, encouraging local business to take on an apprentice - we delivered
“The video has helped us grow our network of sponsor businesses and build our relationships with local SMEs” Charlotte - Manager MTFJ, Westland”
Scriptwriting and video production
3min Social video
Image: Upstock
Upstock Customer Stories
Connect Connect helps, fast-growing hospitality wholesaling app Upstock, to tell its story with warmth and relatability. Through our interviewing and writing expertise, we craft customer stories that showcase how Upstock's easy-peasy software drives business growth for its customers.
Interviewing and Copywriting
Customer story copywriting
Photo: Screengrab
NZ Institute of Architects - Awards Feature
NZIA Awards Jury Convenor, Sharon Jensen shines a light on what judges are looking for as they tour the finalist’s entries to decided who will take out New Zealand's most prestigious Architecture prizes
Directing and video production
1x 1min video
Photo: RNZ/Cole Eastham- Farelly
Imprisoned by Meth
Inside New Zealand's prisons methamphetamine permeates everything: the reason people are there, increasing violence behind bars, mental health problems - and now the need for meth-specific drug treatment.
Presenter and producer
Winner - Best Documentary at the 2019 NZ Radio Awards
1x 30min audio documentary
1x social media video documentary
1x Long-form written feature
Credit: Katie Cheer/The Ministry for Culture & Heritage
Kei Roto i te Miru: Inside the Bubble
Life in lockdown: Nine oral historians head (digitally) inside 25 unique New Zealand bubbles to capture your Aotearoa as you made history.
Executive producer, writer and voice coach
5x 30 minute podcast episodes made for the Ministry of Culture and Heritage and hosted in RNZ digital and radio platforms
Image: Magpie Content Creation
Water podcast series
Teresa Cowie explores New Zealand's water, and talks to three of the country’s most devoted researchers about what drew them to dedicating their lives to better understanding and protecting this precious taonga.
Presenter and podcast producer
3x 30 min episodes for newsroom.co.nz and Magpie Content Creation
Credit: Mateus Campos Felipe @matfelipe
My body, my choice - but what if that choice is a caesarean?
A woman's right to choose how she gives birth has come a long way, but is allowing the choice of a planned caesarean a step too far?
Journalist and feature writer
1 x long form feature for RNZ In-depth
Photo: RNZ/Cole Eastham-Farelly
Pasifika unpaid work
Which New Zealanders do the most unpaid work and volunteering? Pacific peoples may not be getting the credit they deserve. Teresa Cowie explores what this contribution means to New Zealand.
Producer and writer
1x 10min video documentary
1x Long form written feature
Photo: RNZ/Cole Eastham Farelly
Lessons from lockdown - the changes we’ll keep
Lockdown has been an extended period of reflection. Visual journalist Cole Eastham-Farrelly captured socially distant 'door-traits' and Teresa Cowie asked NZers what changes they’ll lock in from lockdown.
Journalist and writer
1 x photo essay and feature for RNZ In-depth
A word from our clients…
“Teresa’s expertise and guidance were key in getting the Education Gazette podcast channel up and running. Teresa created a bespoke and detailed training programme for me that addressed the gaps in my knowledge and also recognised my existing skillset. The programme involved some preparatory ‘homework’ before we launched into some theory-based sessions – these covered everything from scripting to equipment. Teresa then accompanied me ‘on the job’ to assist me with the first podcast I recorded. As a mentor and tutor, I found Teresa to be helpful, calm, insightful and fun to work with.”
— Jude Barback, Chief Editor, Ministry of Education
“We’ve had such good feedback on the podcast series, and a lot of interest in how we managed to create such a professional project during a pandemic crisis – and I have to say: ‘it was all Teresa’..”
— Dr Emma-Jean Kelly - Audio Visual Historian, The Ministry of Culture and Heritage
“Professional and trusted collaborators are who Valley Audio partners with, and that sums up Teresa. She’s an accomplished content creator with a solid reputation as a journalist, producer and presenter in Aotearoa and internationally, and she gets the job done”
— Anaru Dalziel - Sound designer, Valley Audio