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New Zealand journalist, author and broadcaster
Joseph Romanos (born 1957) is a New Zealand journalist, author and broadcaster focusing mainly on sport.
Life and career
Romanos attended
St Patrick's College in
Wellington .
[1] His father
Richie Romanos played
cricket for
Wellington in the 1951–52
Plunket Shield season.
[2]
Romanos has worked on a number of New Zealand newspapers. In 2008 he became editor of
The Wellingtonian and in 2012 he also became
The Dominion Post's Metro chief reporter. He was the
New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame 's executive director from 1995 to 1998.
Romanos and his wife Gael Woods have four children. Together with Phil Murray, the couple founded the publishing house Trio Books in 2003.
[3]
In October 2016, Romanos joined the
Wellington City Council as Chief Advisor to
Justin Lester in the Mayor's Office.
[4] In January 2017, while driving from
Mākara , he and Lester were involved in a crash. All the passengers walked away unhurt, however the Council vehicle they were travelling in was damaged beyond repair.
[5]
Books
As sole author
Chris Lewis : All the Way to Wimbledon 1984
Makers of Champions: Great NZ Coaches 1987
Famous Fullbacks 1989
Famous Flankers 1990
Great New Zealand Cricket Families: A Celebration 1992
A Century of Great New Zealand Cricketers 1993
Arthur's Boys: The Golden Era of New Zealand Athletics 1994
Tortured Genius 1995 (on
Martin Crowe )
Black 1997 (a novel)
John Reid : A Cricketing Life 2000
Merv Wallace : A Cricket Master 2000
Judas Game: The Betrayal of New Zealand Rugby 2002
Great Sporting Rivals 2004
Cricket Confidential: The Game's Greatest Players, Matches and Disputes 2005
New Zealand's Top 100 History-Makers 2005, 2008
New Zealand's Top 100 Sports History-Makers 2006
Winning Ways: Champion New Zealand Coaches Reveal Their Secrets 2007
Our Olympic Century 2008
Cricket Portraits: A Century of New Zealand's Best 2008
Long or Short?: The Story of New Zealand Squash 2010
100 Māori Sports Heroes 2012
Unforgettable: Defining Moments in New Zealand Sport 2014
As co-author
100 Great Rugby Characters (with Grant Harding; illustrations by
Murray Webb ) 1991
Champions: New Zealand Sports Greats of the 20th Century (with Ron Palenski) 2000
The Basin: An Illustrated History of the Basin Reserve (with
Don Neely ) 2003
Lancaster Park: An Illustrated History (with Don Neely) 2006
No Ordinary Man: The Remarkable Life of
Arthur Porritt (with Graeme Woodfield) 2008
Capital People: The Best of the Wellingtonian Interviews (with Rebecca Thomson) 2011
As editor
The Big Black Netball Book (with Gael Woods) 1992
Sporting Life: The Best of Broadcaster, Peter Sellers 1992
We Knocked the Bastard Off: Great New Zealand Sports Quotes 1994
I'm Absolutely Buggered: More Great New Zealand Sports Quotes 1994
Radio Sport New Zealand Sporting Records & Lists 2001
As collaborator with principal author
Lois Muir on Netball (by
Lois Muir ) 1985
Fastbreak (by John Dybvig) 1986
John Dybvig on Basketball (by John Dybvig) 1987
The Innings of a Lifetime (by
Walter Hadlee ) 1993
Sandra Edge: Full Circle: An Autobiography (by
Sandra Edge ) 1995
Striking Out (by Kevin Herlihy) 1997
Legends of the All Blacks: One: The Book of the Series (by
Keith Quinn ) 1999
Outrageous Rugby Moments: Stories of Controversy, Humour, Scandal and Disgrace (by Keith Quinn) 2001
Outrageous Cricket Moments: The Underhanded, the Undermined, the Underperforming and, of Course, the Underarm (by
Ian Smith ) 2003
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