Rawdon Christie is a former English-New Zealand journalist turned media relations expert and real-estate sales person.

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Christie was born in

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. He attended

Marlborough College Marlborough College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English Independent school (United Kingdom), independent boarding school) for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. Founded in 1843 for the sons of Church ...

, and then the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

, where he received a Bachelor of Music degree. After a spell as a teacher of performing arts and sports coach at King's School in

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 List of islands of New Zealand, smaller islands. It is the ...

, Christie attended the

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to undertake a postgraduate course in broadcast journalism. While there he won the 'Young Broadcast Journalist of the Year' award in 2000 (Broadcast Journalism Training Council). He started his journalism career with the BBC in Cambridge, firstly with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, then with BBC Look East. In 2003 Christie took up a position as a reporter with

Television New Zealand Television New Zealand ( mi, Te Reo Tātaki o Aotearoa), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a television network that is broadcast throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region. All of its currently-operating channels are free-to-air an ...

's '' ONE News''. In 2005 he moved to TVNZ's daily current affairs programme, '' Close Up''. He has had stints as presenter of ''Midday'', ''Tonight'', ''

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'', the New Zealand version of '' Dragons' Den'' and '' Agenda''. In July 2007 Rawdon returned to ONE News and later became TVNZ's first producer / presenter when he took over ONE News at 4:30 in 2009. Christie often presented One News at 6 over the Christmas period, and from 2011-2012 presented the news bulletins on '' Breakfast'' two days a week. In September 2011 Christie became co-host (with Toni Street) of

's new Saturday Breakfast show. In May 2012, Christie was promoted as weekday co-host of ''Breakfast'', replacing Corin Dann; he held this job until 2016, when he was dismissed from TVNZ due to major changes being made to the breakfast programme. Christie has since left the television industry to run his own media communications company. In 2020, he obtained his real estate licence to become a real estate salesperson for his local Barfoot & Thompson. Christie lives in

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about I ...

with his wife and three children. His cousin is the movie star Julie Christie.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Christie, Rawdon British television journalists New Zealand television newsreaders and news presenters People educated at Marlborough College 1967 births Living people Alumni of the University of Edinburgh

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