In 2012, the two moved from Wellington back to the town where Jones was born, Kaitāia, in Aotearoa’s northern reaches. Jones became CEO of Te Hiku Media, a public radio station that broadcasts in te reo, part of a broader network of media and other organizations engaged in te reo’s revitalization. In his new role, Jones identified an opportunity. Over its twenty-odd years of broadcasting, Te Hiku had amassed a wealth of archival audio of people speaking te reo, including a recording of his own grandmother Raiha Moeroa, born in the late nineteenth century, whose accent had yet to be distorted
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