Journalist Mihingarangi Forbes is joining Maori Television to produce its daily news programme, Te Kaea.
She recently left TV3’s flagship current affairs programme, Campbell Live, where in 2008 she won a Qantas Award for ‘best reporter for daily current affairs’.
During her 17 years’ in the television industry, Ms Forbes has worked as a journalist and producer for TV3 and TVNZ, where she began her career with Te Karere.
Last year she conducted a controversial interview with former EMA boss, Alasdair Thompson, which led to him resigning his position amid backlash over his comments on women's productivity in the workplace.
She will be joined by former Maori Television press gallery reporter Tina Wickliffe, who will head the Wellington news bureau as part of changes to Maori Television’s news and current affairs department.
Ms Forbes replaces former Te Kaea KAEA producer Taiha Molyneux, who has taken on a new role to develop Maori Television’s online news presence.
The move to Maori Television reunites Ms Forbes with former TV3 producer Carol Hirschfeld, who joined Maori Television in 2009 as head of programming and was last year promoted to general manager of production.
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I wonder if the tax payer is now paying her Salary!
When you see Mr Ed the talking horse from the 1960's TV series dubbed in Maori you know there is something wrong with Maori television
The taxpayer is paying all their salaries
That's one less militant, extreme left, unbalanced, advocacy-type churnalist with their own agenda on Campbell Live. Only about 6 more to go. She made Campbell himself appear balanced.
Maori TV is the closest thing this country has to a public broadcasting service.
I note that on every Anzac day, they devote almost a whole day's programming to the Anzac events around the country and to discussions of the meaning of the day. Even the odd war movie with Kiwis in it. The best TVNZ can manage is 5 minutes in the news, plus replaying Saving Private Ryan
Journalist Mihingarangi Forbes has the imprimatur of a Qantas Media Award. Big deal! Those 'In The Know', know it was a sickly ingratiating sop to Maoridom.
That aside, don't forget: that Paul Holmes got a Qantas Media Award, as well. And his writings are so very childlike in its earnestness, it's a mission to stifle the giggling while reading it.
the only thing wrong with maori tv coverage of ANZAC DAY is that you are given the impression that the maori battalion won the war by themselves.
Give me a break!!! Maori TV is a very successful Channel and has demonstrated it is economically viable with an expanding mix of Maori and non Maori viewers. Maori TV continues to attract good quality staff as a result of its record.
Yes, Maori TV is doing a good job and has sort of picked up the public broadcasting role. It is very well lead by a professional CEO and has as good a line up of broadcasting staff as there is in NZ.
Mihi Forbes may well desire to return to something way more professional than the increasingly tabloid like Campbell Live. Hopefully she will relish the chance to return to professional unbiased journalism.
By the way TV 3 is government subsidised too right now. They owe the govt tens of millions in unpaid licensing fees! So Ms Forbes might be seeing the writing on the wall?
That's true !
Didn't TV3 get the mega bailout because it was owned by Stephen Joyce? Private companies getting a bigger chunk of taxpayer money is by far the worst. Maori TV is the best thing to have happened to NZ TV in a long time.
Didn't TV3 get the mega bailout because it was owned by Stephen Joyce? Private companies getting a bigger chunk of taxpayer money is by far the worst. Maori TV is the best thing to have happened to NZ TV in a long time.
TVNZ's reporters are also taxpayer funded, but they produce news that is biased in that Māori are largely absent unless child abuse is involved. I was part of a group that did an analysis of 6 months of "mainstream" television news. Māori featured in 1.9% of stories, and 58% of those stories were related to child abuse.
Te Kaea (and Te Karere) give us a much more balanced picture.
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