Richard Harman is a New Zealand political journalist and broadcaster.
Career
Harman studied English, Architecture, and Economics at
Auckland University
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, but was as heavily involved in student journalism and politics as with study. Harman started his professional career as a reporter with
The Dominion, where he worked as a reporter from 1972 to 1977. From here, he moved to
Television New Zealand
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more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a New Zealand state-owned media company and Crown entity. The company operates a television network, TVNZ+, streaming service, and 1N ...
, where he was a news and current affairs reporter and political editor, working on current affairs series ''Eye Witness News'' and ''Assignment''.
[Front Page - The Team]
, FrontPage.co.nz. Retrieved 3 May 2013. Since 1999 he has founded and headed the political news production company Front Page.
Front Page, under Harman, produced the weekly TVNZ programme ''
Agenda
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Information management
* Agenda (meeting), points to be discussed and acted upon, displayed as a list
* Political agenda, the set of goals of an ideological group
* Lotus Agenda, a DOS-based personal informatio ...
'' and the weekend
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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
The New Zealand constitutional crisis of 1984 arose following the 1984 general election, and was caused by a major currency crisis. The crisis led the incoming government to review New Zealand's constitutional structures, which resulted in th ...
, 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, and in 1998 was awarded an Oxford University Fellowship by the
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) is a UK-based research centre and think tank founded in 2006, which operates Thomson Reuters Journalism Fellowship Programme, also known as the Reuters Fellowship.
History
The institute ...
at
Green Templeton College, and has completed a Master of International Relations course at
Victoria University Victoria University may refer to:
* Victoria University (Australia), a public research university in Melbourne, Australia
* Victoria University, Toronto, a constituent college of the federal University of Toronto in Canada
* Victoria University of ...
.
In 2019, Harman was a judge for the
Voyager Media Awards.
Harman's political news website ''Politik'' is regarded as a well-informed source for political analysis and is regularly quoted by established news outlets.
See also
*
List of New Zealand television personalities
This is a list of New Zealand television personalities, including presenters and journalists. It includes those who left the profession, retired, or died.
A
* Suzy Aiken – television personality and Prime News presenter
* Peter Arnett – t ...
References
External links
Front Page
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New Zealand journalists
New Zealand television presenters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)