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Anna Burns-Francis
Anna Burns-Francis () is a New Zealand television presenter and journalist who has worked for '' Fair Go'', ''1News'' and ''Breakfast''. She currently lives in Dubai. Career Burns-Francis began working for TVNZ in 2016. In April 2020 Burns-Francis left '' Fair Go'' to become ''1News'''s United States correspondent, replacing Jack Tame. She was based in New York. During this time she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 United States presidential election and the January 6 United States Capitol attack. After returning to New Zealand, Burns-Francis and Chris Chang became co-hosts of the morning news programme Breakfast in January 2023, joining Jenny-May Clarkson and Matty McLean. In December 2024, during a TVNZ cost-saving restructure, Burns-Francis was told that she would have to re-apply for her job to remain at the company. She decided not to re-apply, and soon moved to Dubai for her husband's job. Personal life In 2022 Burns-Francis became engaged with Simon Gordon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fair Go
''Fair Go'' is a New Zealand consumer affairs television programme hosted by Pippa Wetzell. First aired in 1977, it was New Zealand's second longest-running local programme (after '' Country Calendar''). It was also one of its highest-rated programmes, frequently placed high in the New Zealand TV Guide list of most viewed programmes. It aired its final episode on 13 May 2024. Content and programming ''Fair Go'' features a mixture of investigative journalism and consumer affairs stories, based on the motto: "If you've been ripped off, short-changed or given the runaround and nobody wants to know...we do!" ''Fair Go'' also held the annual ''Fair Go'' Ad Awards, in which the best and worst advertisements on New Zealand television are announced, and a competition to find the best 30-second video by New Zealand students is held. History Fair Go began in 1977, the creation of presenter Brian Edwards and producer Peter Morritt. At the time it was seen as breaking new ground. It wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1News
1News is the news service of the New Zealand television network TVNZ. Its flagship programme is the daily evening newscast ''1News at Six''; other programmes include morning news-talk show ''Breakfast'', '' Te Karere'', '' Seven Sharp'', and Sunday morning political affairs program '' Q+A''. TVNZ also operates a news website and app, 1News.co.nz. TVNZ's Chief News and Content Officer, Nadia Tolich, was appointed in April 2025. Broadcast from its Auckland studios, 1News' nightly 6pm bulletin is usually New Zealand's most-watched television programme and seen as influential. TVNZ operates bureaus in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch and has foreign correspondents based in Australia, Europe and the United States. History Television news in New Zealand started in 1960 with the introduction of television. These bulletins were broadcast from New Zealand's four main cities (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin) operating independently of each other due to technical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakfast (New Zealand TV Programme)
''Breakfast'' (also referred to as ''TVNZ Breakfast'') is a New Zealand morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on TVNZ 1, produced by ''1News''. Debuting on 11 August 1997, it was the first of its genre in New Zealand. It contains a mixture of breaking news, news, sport, weather and feature items. Originally a two-hour programme, it was expanded to three hours in 2012. It is currently presented by Jenny-May Clarkson and Chris Chang. History ''Breakfast'' began airing on 11 August 1997 on TV One and was preceded by ''Telstra Business'', an early morning programme devoted to business and finance. The original presenters were Susan Wood and Mike Hosking, with Liz Gunn as newsreader and Michael Wilson as presenter of ''Telstra Business''. Before ''Breakfast'' came along, breakfast television was introduced to Channel 2 in November 1989 with an early morning news service called ''Breakfast News'' with Tom Bradley as anchor and Penelope Barr as weather presenter. ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Zealand Herald
''The New Zealand Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand. It has the largest newspaper circulation in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the daily ''Herald'' had declined to 100,073 copies on average by September 2019. The ''Herald''s publications include a daily paper; the ''Weekend Herald'', a weekly Saturday paper; and the ''Herald on Sunday'', which has 365,000 readers nationwide. The ''Herald on Sunday'' is the most widely read Sunday paper in New Zealand. The paper's website, nzherald.co.nz, is viewed 2.2 million times a week and was named Voyager Media Awards' News Website of the Year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. In 2023, the ''Weekend Herald'' was awarded Weekly Newspaper of the Year and the publication's mobile application was the News App of the Year. Its main circulation area is the Auckland R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVNZ
Television New Zealand (, "Te Reo Tātaki" meaning "The Leading Voice"), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a New Zealand state-owned media company and Crown entity. The company operates a television network, streaming service, and news service that is available throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region. All of its currently-operating channels are free-to-air and funded through advertising. TVNZ was established in February 1980 following the merger of the two government-owned television networks, Television One (now TVNZ 1) and South Pacific Television (now TVNZ 2), under a single administration. It was the sole television broadcaster in New Zealand until November 1989 when private channel TV3 (now Three) was launched. TVNZ operates playout services from its Auckland studio via Kordia's fibre and microwave network for TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2 and TVNZ Duke, with new media video services via the American-owned Brightcove which is streamed on the Akamai RTMP/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Tame
Jack Renfrey Tame (born March 1987) is a New Zealand television and radio journalist and presenter. He is the host of TVNZ’s political show Q+A, and a presenter at ''Newstalk ZB''. Early life Tame was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, the son of Golden Bay High School principal Linda Tame and John Tame who worked in accountancy when Jack and his three siblings were growing up. He is the eldest of the four siblings. Tame attended St Martin's Primary School in Christchurch and then Cashmere High School before graduating from the New Zealand Broadcasting School at CPIT (now Ara Institute of Canterbury). Career Tame previously worked as the United States correspondent for TVNZ, based in New York City, and is the former co-host of Breakfast. He is the Saturday morning host on radio station Newstalk ZB, current host of Q+A since April 2019, and a columnist for the '' Herald on Sunday''. He currently works in two roles for Newstalk ZB: Saturday morning presenter (9 am to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuff (website)
Stuff is a New Zealand news media website owned by newspaper conglomerate Stuff Ltd (formerly called Fairfax). As of early 2024, it is the most popular news website in New Zealand, with a monthly unique audience of more than 2 million. Stuff was founded in 2000, and publishes breaking news, weather, sport, politics, video, entertainment, business and life and style content from Stuff Ltd's newspapers, which include New Zealand's second- and third-highest circulation daily newspapers, ''The Post'' and '' The Press'', and the highest circulation weekly, '' Sunday Star-Times'', as well as international news wire services. Stuff has won numerous awards at the Newspaper Publishers' Association awards including 'Best News Website or App' in 2014 and 2019, and 'Website of the Year' in 2013 and 2018, 'Best News Website in 2019', and 'Digital News Provider of the Year' in 2024 and 2025. History Independent Newspapers Ltd, 2000–2003 The former New Zealand media company Independ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Soon after, it spread to other areas of Asia, and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, then worldwide in early 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020, and assessed the outbreak as having become a pandemic on 11 March. COVID-19 symptoms range from asymptomatic to deadly, but most commonly include fever, sore throat, nocturnal cough, and fatigue. Transmission of COVID-19, Transmission of the virus is often airborne transmission, through airborne particles. Mutations have variants of SARS-CoV-2, produced many strains (variants) with varying degrees of infectivity and virulence. COVID-19 vaccines were developed rapidly and deplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 United States Presidential Election
United States presidential election, Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 2020. The Democratic Party (United States), Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and California junior senator Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican Party (United States), Republican president Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence. The election saw the highest Voter turnout in United States presidential elections, voter turnout by percentage 1900 United States presidential election, since 1900. Biden received more than 81 million votes, the List of United States presidential candidates by number of votes received, most votes ever cast for a presidential candidate in U.S. history. In a competitive primary that featured the most candidates for any political party in the Sixth Party System, modern era of American politics, Biden secured the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Democratic presidential nomination. Biden's running ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 6 United States Capitol Attack
On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of Donald Trump, President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup,Multiple sources: * * * * * * * * * * * * * two months after his defeat in the 2020 United States presidential election, 2020 presidential election. They sought to keep him in power by preventing a Joint session of the United States Congress, joint session of Congress from 2021 United States Electoral College vote count, counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of the President-elect of the United States, president-elect Joe Biden. The attack was unsuccessful in preventing the certification of the election results. According to the bipartisan United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, House select committee that investigated the incident, the attack was the culmination of Public hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack#7Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Chang
Chris Chang (born ) is a New Zealand television presenter, who hosts the morning news programme ''Breakfast''. Early life and education Chang was born in Wellington. Chang's father was a Chinese Malaysian. From Wellington, Chang moved to Asia at age six, where he spent one and a half years in Singapore and the rest of time in Thailand, mostly in Bangkok. At age 12 he moved back to Wellington. At Victoria University of Wellington, Chang studied English and law. Afterwards, he undertook a post-graduate journalism diploma at Auckland University of Technology, which led to an internship at TVNZ. Career In October 2019 Chang replaced Jenny-May Clarkson as ''1News'''s weekend sport presenter after Clarkson became the newsreader of the morning news programme ''Breakfast''. In January 2023 Chang became a co-host of ''Breakfast'', joining Matty McLean, Jenny-May Clarkson and Anna Burns-Francis Anna Burns-Francis () is a New Zealand television presenter and journalist who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny-May Clarkson
Jenny-May Clarkson (née Coffin; 9 April 1974) is a New Zealand television presenter and former New Zealand netball player. Clarkson was a member of the Silver Ferns, the New Zealand national netball team, from 1997 to 2002, and was the vice-captain in 2001. She also played for the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic in the National Bank Cup (1998–2004) and the Auckland Diamonds (2007); she also played one season in the ANZ Championship in 2008 for the Southern Steel, and was signed to play with the Northern Mystics in 2010. Since 2005, Clarkson has been a sports commentator and news presenter for TVNZ and Māori Television. She currently co-hosts ''Breakfast'' with Chris Chang. Early life Jenny-May Clarkson was born in Te Kūiti, New Zealand. She was the youngest of six children raised by Waka and Paddy Coffin in Piopio, close to Mokaukohunui marae. Her father's parents were Charlie Coffin, a Pākehā, and Harata, a Māori. International netball Jenny-May Clarkson played f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
