What is Alan Sayers?
[[File:Alan Sayers.jpg|right|200px]] '''Alan John Sayers''' (6 December 1915 – 19 August 2017<ref>{{Cite web|date=2024-12-26|title=Alan Sayers: Journalism was in his blood|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/alan-sayers-journalism-was-in-his-blood/H4KIWFZN4NLIS7NXXHFDQUTK2E/#google_vignette|access-date=2024-12-26|website=NZ Herald|language=en-NZ}}</ref>) was a New Zealand journalist, photographer and athlete. He was born [[Onehunga]], New Zealand.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19151208.2.2.1| title=Births| date=8 December 1915| work=New Zealand Herald| access-date=3 June 2015| page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Electoral district of Manukau: general roll of persons entitled to vote for Members of Parliament of New Zealand|year=1914|page=143}}</ref> Sayers represented ''[[The New Zealand Herald]]'' prior to World War II. When the war was over he was invited to join the ''[[Auckland Star]]'' where he was the first reporter in New Zealand to receive a personal by-line. In 1953 he was an official journalist on the tour of Queen Elizabeth 11 to the Pacific Islands and New Zealand. Sayers died in [[Auckland]] on 19 August 2017 at the age of 101.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?n=alan-john-sayers&pid=186458553|title=Alan Sayers death notice|date=24 August 2017|work=New Zealand Herald|access-date=25 August 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sayers, Alan}} [[Category:1915 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:New Zealand athletes]] [[Category:New Zealand journalists]] [[Category:Photographers]] [[Category:New Zealand centenarians]] {{sports-bio-stub}}