Amanda Cropp is the Christchurch business bureau chief for Fairfax Media. Her work appears on the Stuff website, and in Fairfax newspapers such as The Press and the Sunday Star Times.  An award winning investigative journalist based in Christchurch, New Zealand,  her stories have appeared in a wide range of national and international publications ranging from North & South magazine to The New York Times. She is the author of Digging Deeper: a New Zealand Guide to Investigative Reporting and, following the devastating earthquakes that hit her home city in 2011, she wrote Shaken, Not Stirred: Family survival in a quake zone,  an account of daily life after the disaster.