Richard Harman (journalist)

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Richard Harman is a New Zealand political journalist and broadcaster.[1]

Career

Harman studied English, Architecture, and Economics at

Television New Zealand, where he was a news and current affairs reporter and political editor, working on current affairs series Eye Witness News and Assignment.[2]
Since 1999 he has founded and headed the political news production company Front Page.

Front Page, under Harman, produced the weekly TVNZ programme

TV3
show The Nation, as well as providing television production facilities for a range of New Zealand companies and government agencies.

The documentary Five Days in July, about the 1984 New Zealand constitutional crisis, which was scripted and presented by Harman for TVNZ, won the Best Documentary category at the 1995 New Zealand Film and TV Awards.

Harman has life membership and was former chairman of the New Zealand parliamentary press gallery,[3] and in 1998 was awarded an Oxford University Fellowship by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Green Templeton College, and has completed a Master of International Relations course at Victoria University.[2]

In 2019, Harman was a judge for the Voyager Media Awards.[4]

Harman's political news website Politik is regarded as a well-informed source for political analysis and is regularly quoted by established news outlets.[5][6][7]

See also

References

  1. 3 News
    website
  2. ^ a b "Front Page - The Team", FrontPage.co.nz. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  3. ^ "About Agenda", Agendatv.co.nz. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Judges 2019". Voyager Media Awards. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  5. ^ Farrar, David (20 May 2016). "Why Richard Harman is the best political journalist in NZ". Kiwiblog. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  6. ^ Braae, Alex (25 June 2020). "The Bulletin: Will the three-party government survive the term?". The Spinoff. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  7. ^ Peacock, Colin (5 July 2020). "Breaking for the borders". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 21 July 2020.

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