Mark Meredith
Mark has had a passion for journalism and the news since his early years as a researcher at the BBC. He completed a diploma course
in Magazine Journalism at Highbury College in the UK in 1993 and started his career as a feature writer for the Portsmouth News.
Mark emigrated with his wife Roslyn to Trinidad in 1996. There he made his greatest mark as an environmental journalist, writing and photographing investigative reports and features for the Trinidad Express, over a period of 10 years. He won national and regional awards for highlighting environmental and development concerns
in the Caribbean, especially as they related to its tourism product.
Mark discovered a deep interest in and talent for photography in his early years as a journalist, and his writing is often illustrated by his own images. As a freelance writer and photographer for 15 years, Mark has been a regular contributor to Caribbean Beat, the inflight magazine of regional airline Caribbean Airlines (formerly BWIA), written travel guides to Trinidad and Tobago, as well as edited and contributed stories and pictures to MACO Caribbean Living, a large, glossy lifestyle magazine. He developed the concept for and served as Editor-in-Chief of SAMAAN magazine, the Caribbean's first and only magazine that highlighted and campaigned for the region's unique environment and wildlife.
Mark and Roslyn moved to New Zealand in 2006 with their
three daughters and now work together as joint owners of
Scribbles NZ Limited.
Roslyn Meredith
Born in the West Indies, Roslyn has lived and worked in Trinidad and Tobago, the UK and New Zealand. She has a BA Hons in English from London University and 25 years’ experience in advertising, publishing and print.
Roslyn started out as a copyeditor at a small publishing house in Trinidad and Tobago and has since worked for advertising agencies and as a newspaper sub-editor, as well as an assistant commissioning editor on the Computer Science book programme
at John Wiley & Sons in the UK. As Editorial Manager at Lonsdale Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising in Trinidad and Tobago for seven years, Roslyn was responsible for setting up and overseeing the department responsible for producing corporate publications for
the Agency’s clients. Her role included ensuring all creative work produced by the Agency was of a high editorial standard, and
error-free. Most recently, Roslyn held the position of Quality Control Manager at Blue Star Print New Zealand for two years, where she set up and managed a new proofreading department at their design and production house, Integrated Solutions, on the North Shore.
Roslyn’s evolving role in the industry has given her a broad understanding of the production process across a wide range of print media. She brings this experience and her love of publishing and print to her new business partnership, with her husband Mark, as joint owner of Scribbles NZ Ltd.
