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Home News and Events News stories Alumni from Ara first Māori presenter to host Radio NZ show

Alumni from Ara first Māori presenter to host Radio NZ show

26 March, 2020

Māni Dunlop, an alumni of Ara's New Zealand Broadcasting School is now the host of the the midday news programme Midday Report on RNZ National.

This makes history as Dunlop is the first Māori presenter to host a regular weekday news programme on RNZ.

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Māni Dunlop joined RNZ as an intern at the end of 2011, starting in the general newsroom and specialising in housing and social issues. She then moved into RNZ’s newly established Māori news unit, Te Manu Korihi and became Māori News Director in 2019.
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