Neil Waka
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Neil Waka is a New Zealand broadcaster and journalist. He has been in broadcasting for 25 years beginning in radio as a news and current affairs journalist before moving into Television. Waka helped establish and was the first presenter in New Zealand to present the weekday 4:30 pm news bulletins on ONE News for TVNZ, for almost two years from 2007.[1][2]
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Neil Waka is a New Zealand broadcast journalists (radio and television) and one of the first of Maori ethnicity to break into mainstream television as a news anchor for more than two decades.
He is also one of only a handful of news anchors who has held a full-time news presenting role at the two largest mainstream networks, TV3 and TVNZ.
When he departed television, he took on a corporate role with global organisation General Motors Holden New Zealand for five years before moving to Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand as Head of Corporate Affairs NZ & Fiji.
After nine years out of the media spotlight, Neil was again back on New Zealand television screens as a guest sports news sports news presenter for Newshub's AM Show prior to Christmas 2019.
References[]
- ^ McNaughton, Maggie (27 October 2007). "4.30pm slot pulls in viewers". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
- ^ Francis, Clio (20 March 2009). "Taxis and booze cut as TVNZ wields axe". The Dominion Post. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
External links[]
- Neil Waka at TVNZ
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