Noel Harrison was a long time friend of Sir Graham Latimer. He has worked as a journalist for the Southern Cross and Dominion newspapers in Wellington before becoming a secondary school teacher. Noel has lectured in England and helped develop curriculums with UNESCO in the South Pacific in the 1970's.
Noel established the journalism school at the Wellington Polytechnic in 1966 (now Massey University), where he later became Director.