Our media services offer the writing, editorial, design, print and digital skills to take your story to the world in the best form for your audience.

And our publishing and packaging services ensure that you receive a quality product that meets your own brief while being commercially attractive.

We offer a premium service for clients that combines:

  • excellence in all facets of publishing
  • decades of experience in editing, design, printing
  • nationwide and international reach in book promotion and distribution
  • a high-level understanding of corporate and social objectives
  • a collaborative, communicative approach that keeps you in control

A well-made book is an enduring, cost-effective tool for marketing yourself or your organisation.

Preserving corporate or association history in a book ensures that achievements can be celebrated and values communicated. For any groups wanting to publish, working with a professional partner gives your book its best chance at success.

‘The Wi Pere Trust worked in partnership with Oratia Media to transform an academic manuscript into the publication Wiremu Pere: The Life and Times of a Maori Leader, 1837–1915. Peter Dowling and his team at Oratia Media exceeded our expectations in the quality of this book. Their professionalism and knowledge of publishing were greatly enhanced by their sensitivity and respect for the complexities associated with Māori history, whakapapa and context.’

Alan Haronga, Chairman, Wi Pere Trust

‘The Tindall Foundation has been working with Oratia Media since 2012.  Alessandra, Carolyn, Peter and team have supported us with specialist assistance for Annual Reports, calendars and website content. They have helped us guide the Foundation’s print and digital communications, including the quality publishing of our history book The Tindall Foundation Story (2018). Oratia’s expertise, efficiency and cultural understanding are truly outstanding and we highly recommend their services.’

Elizabeth Tindall Tetro, Communications Advisor, The Tindall Foundation

‘Peter Dowling, and the team at Oratia, made what could have been a dry policy book into a creative tour de force, mostly by bringing outstanding design and editing to the book. The book was published on-budget and on-time, and to a good reception in the media, which was also arranged by Oratia. I strongly recommend Peter Dowling and Oratia for private publishing projects like mine.’

Owen Gill, author, Turning Point Auckland: Radical Policy to Prepare Auckland for Two Million People, published February 2019

‘Oratia Media provided a very professional, tailored, timely and affordable service in reprinting one of the Board’s key publications on place names. They ensured close communication, and thanks in part to Peter’s reputation as an editor of significant standing in New Zealand, the Board was very pleased with the final product.’

Wendy Shaw, Secretary, New Zealand Geographic Board

‘As a first-time author, I really needed close support from a good publisher, and I found it in spades in the team at Oratia. I couldn’t be happier with the way they advised, supported, challenged and encouraged me — they really know what they’re talking about — and I’m absolutely delighted with the end result.’

David Gray, Principal, Kia Tū Rangatira Ai Consulting

Along with many individual authors, here are some other organisations with whom we’ve worked:

BLAKE
Civic Assurance
Friends of Arataki
Kodansha International (Tokyo)
Kozo System (Tokyo)
Moodie International (London)
Moore International
Pearson Education (Melbourne)
Reed Business Information (London)
Rock Your Life (Cape Town)
Te Whānau O Waipareira Trust
The Order of St John
The Resilience Institute
Waitakere Ranges Protection Society

Services include

  • writing
  • editing
  • translation
  • proofreading
  • design and layout
  • project management
  • print management
  • ebook management
  • marketing and publicity
  • strategic communications