Craig Hoyle

Infobox person name = Craig Hoyle image = Craig Hoyle.jpg caption = Hoyle in 2025 birth_date = He has served as chief news director of the Sunday Star-Times.

Early life Hoyle was raised in the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (formerly known as the Exclusive Brethren).

His personal account was cited in media coverage surrounding New Zealand's Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Act 2022.

Excommunicated In 2023, Hoyle published Excommunicated: A Multigenerational Story of Leaving the Exclusive Brethren through HarperCollins New Zealand. The Waikato Times, Pacific Journalism Review, and Woman’s Day. the Queenstown Writers Festival, Hamilton Book Month, WOMAD, and the Decult conference.

Journalism Beyond his memoir, Hoyle has written as a senior journalist covering social issues, politics, and cultural topics. He reported from the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests of 2019.

His work has been published in The New York Times, Stuff, The Post, and the Sunday Star-Times.

He completed a 2014 dissertation titled Financially important yet voiceless: Representation of Asians in media coverage of the 2014 New Zealand General Election, available via Auckland University of Technology.

Hoyle is based in London, United Kingdom.