Multimedia journalist Kris Shannon covers cricket, rugby, football and Olympic sports.
I’m Kris Shannon and I’m a Multimedia Sport Journalist. Aged five my football team lost our first game 17-0, so I decided to try journalism. I studied at Massey University in Palmerston North and Wellington before moving to Auckland for my first job at the fledgling APNZ newswire (RIP) in 2011. I wrote about many codes across the Herald titles for six years before enjoying an OE in London, where I worked as a sub-editor on the sport desk at the Daily Express. I then returned to New Zealand and the Herald full-time in 2021, settling into a role centred around cricket, rugby, football and Olympic sports. Sport has been a lifelong passion – despite that early thrashing – and spending the day at a stadium instead of the office is always enjoyable. Highlights include covering the Breakers’ three-peat in Perth, the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and Birmingham and, most memorably, Grant Elliott’s six at Eden Park.
Clinical Chiefs topple Brumbies to seal top spot
The Chiefs were almost flawless in defence and ruthlessly punished the Brumbies in attack.
Unbeaten Chiefs stunned by lowly rivals
The Chiefs’ unbeaten run has been broken by the unlikeliest of opponent.
Unbeaten Chiefs muscle up to take down Hurricanes
A defensively dominant Chiefs have charged back to the top of the Super Rugby standings.
Highlanders thump Chiefs
On a night that hearkened back to the franchise's formative years, the Highlanders created a little slice of history and remained right in the hunt for another.
Rugby: Chiefs aim to get all facets firing
One week they had a spectacular scrum and an impotent attack. Seven days later the situation was reversed.