Anna Connell

Guest writer

Anna Connell is a columnist and commentator on a range of issues and regularly writes about diversity, gender equality and the future of work.

Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey, decked out in PPE as Grey’s Anatomy addresses Covid-19. (Photo: Supplied)

How Grey’s Anatomy has addressed Covid-19 – and how it hasn’t

Grey's Anatomy isn't the first TV drama to address Covid-19, but it's the most significant.

By Anna Connell | 30th November, 2020

the social dilemma

Review: The problem with The Social Dilemma

It positions social media as a kind of eye of Sauron – the single source of misery and all that is wrong with the world.

By Anna Connell | 26th September, 2020

Trial by push notification

Trial by push notification

The trial of the man accused of Grace Millane’s murder is unlike any other in New Zealand history, recounted in micro-beats, each one tweeted and push-notified.

By Anna Connell | 13th November, 2019

Memo to WINZ: Don’t use Twitter to clap back at your clients

Memo to WINZ: Don’t use Twitter to clap back at your clients

Being a big brand, corporate, or government department means restraining yourself on social media, no matter how grievously you feel you've been wronged, writes Anna Connell.

By Anna Connell | 15th June, 2019

Dear Police et al: Your cutesy social media account is bad and foolish

Dear Police et al: Your cutesy social media account is bad and foolish

The flood of fun memes, hot takes and utterly inane dog speak springing from the social media accounts of public organisations and corporates needs to stop

By Anna Connell | 5th March, 2019

The hopeless search for something other than a middle-aged white bloke in the debate around the CTO role. Photo: Getty

Where are the women/Māori/anyone other than white dudes in the CTO debate?

In the ongoing palaver around the non-appointment of a chief technology officer, we're awash in opinions from pakeha blokes

By Anna Connell | 1st October, 2018

Careful what you poke. Photo: Rubberball/Getty

LinkedIn just became a political grenade, and no one knows what they’re on about

If Pauline Kingi has really resigned for poking someone 23 times on professional Facebook, then that’s a real bloody shame

By Anna Connell | 2nd August, 2018

Julie Anne Genter. Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

Why the red mist over Genter’s ‘old white men’ remarks? She’s dealing in facts

A bunch of people seem to have taken the Green MP's comments about diversity on boards very personally, when the research suggests there's nothing controversial about them at all, writes Anna Connell.

By Anna Connell | 27th March, 2018