Warm, natural, unfussy — and already familiar to New Zealand audiences.
Every Sunday morning since 2010, New Zealanders listen to Megan Singleton talking travel with Francesca Rudkin on Newstalk ZB, New Zealand’s largest talkback radio station.
That familiarity is the point. When her voice narrates your destination video, it doesn’t arrive as a stranger — it arrives as someone the audience has been listening to for years.
Hear her
Why hire a travel journalist to read it
Most voice artists read a travel script. Megan has usually been to the place it describes.
She has filed stories from all over Europe and the United States, several Pacific Islands, across Asia, Australia and all around New Zealand.
She has been hosted by destinations hundreds of times, and visits on her own. She has spent twenty-six years writing this kind of copy for a living.
She runs her own podcast, interviewing people on the ground to glean insights for her listeners.
Here’s what you can expect:
- Place names land right. She says them the way someone who has been there says them, not the way AI says them.
- She’ll flag a line that won’t survive. If a claim in the script would get picked apart by a journalist or a reviewer, she’ll tell you before it’s recorded rather than after it’s published.
- She can fix the writing. If a sentence doesn’t scan when it’s read aloud — and plenty don’t — she can tighten it instead of just performing it.
The work she takes
- Destination and tourism videos
- Hotel, resort and operator promos
- Trade, conference and event video
- Corporate and brand explainers
- Radio and online advertising
- Podcast and series narration
- On-camera presenting and pieces to camera
- Event MC and awards nights
How it works
1. Send the script
Along with your deadline, the tone you’re after, and any pronunciations you want handled a particular way. A rough cut of the vision helps if you have one.
2. Choose how it’s recorded
Recorded remotely and emailed through as a file, or in a studio if you’d rather direct it in person. Remote is faster and cheaper; studio gives you the session.
3. Get the audio back
Delivered ready to drop onto your timeline. Quick turnarounds are usually possible — ask when you send the script.
Rates and turnaround
I quote per project. A 30-second VO starts at $250.
Contact me for a quote on your project, as rates depend on length and usage.
Presenting to camera
Megan also presents on camera. She has filmed on location for television — including in New Orleans, telling the stories of a city rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina — and has fronted video campaigns for destinations across the Pacific.
If your shoot needs someone who can hold a piece to camera, interview an operator, and write the script on the way there, that’s the same job she has been doing for years.
Send through your script
Include your deadline and roughly how long the finished piece runs, and Megan will come back with a quote.