correspondent based in Beijing. In this role she covered the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and reported on the 2008 Summer Olympics including air pollution, algae at the sailing venue, and preparations of the Chinese athletes. Members of her crew were assaulted outside a university in Xining, near Tibet, on 19 March 2008, while attempting to talk to some students; someone claiming to be the director of the university attacked both her interpreter and camera operator. References Auckland University of Technology alumni Living people New Zealand television journalists University of Otago alumni Year of birth missing (living people)