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Derek Cheng is a journalist at ‘Counterintuitive’. He covers a range of topics including medicine and healthcare, education, and culture and society, with a focus on consumer health, public health, and diversity and inclusion. Derek's work has been featured in MSN, Adventure Magazine, The Spinoff, NewstalkZB, Media Industry Observer, and the New Zealand Herald.
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Derek Cheng's coverage primarily revolves around New Zealand politics, government policies, legal and regulatory issues. He seems to focus on covering announcements made by the government along with legal policy regulations. Therefore, he would likely be interested in receiving pitches related to current political developments in New Zealand, particularly those concerning education, drug use, police conduct or any significant changes in government policies.
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By: Derek Cheng
More than 10,000 students left high school last year with no NCEA qualifications, despite overall achievement improving for a second consecutive year.
By: Derek Cheng
Generative artificial intelligence is amplifying an increasingly volatile threat environment for our national security, according to a new NZ Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) report.
By: Derek Cheng
There were an estimated 3000 more victims of violent crime for the year to February compared to the previous quarter, the first increase in almost two years.
By: Derek Cheng
New Zealand history in the new social sciences curriculum is being sanitised in a way that could lead to young people holding extreme views, a teacher educator and education researcher says.
By: Christopher Luxon, Leader Chris Hipkins, Newstalk Zb, Katie Bradford, Thomas Coughlan, Audrey Young, Adam Pearse, Shayne Currie, Derek Cheng
Home News NZME unveils its biggest-ever election coverage for 2026
By: Derek Cheng
The official count of all school leavers with no NCEA qualifications has been stabilising at about 15% - but the real figure is actually closer to 19% and growing.
By: Derek Cheng
Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee is rejecting suggestions her firearms law reforms were an attempt to move New Zealand towards a United States-style “right to bear arms”.
By: Derek Cheng
Promised a loaf of bread and given a rock. That's how Mackenzie District Mayor Scott Aronsen described Christopher Luxon's rapid U-turn on a bed tax.
By: Derek Cheng
The scourge of methamphetamine continues to wreak havoc across New Zealand, with the equivalent of almost two million doses detected in wastewater sites over one week in April.
By: Derek Cheng
The post-Covid collapse in education has halted amid signs of a narrowing equity gap, as disadvantaged students improved at higher rates than their richer peers.
