There are a few New Zealanders who currently work at Al Jazeera, the 24 hour international news channel (live from Doha and London with several bureaux worldwide), and I hope that some Kiwi journalists are giving Al Jazeera a go - Tom McRae, for instance, according to @medianz.
@medianz There are two studios that Al Jazeera is broadcasting from: Doha and London. But the question is, which one?
In this post it says that he will be based in Doha
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Interesting to find out his wife is Rachel Jackson-Lees, breakfast radio newsreader across some of NZME’s stations.
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There has been jokes made in the past that AJ is the Newshub Doha office.
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There goes Discovery’s best shot at making AM watchable again.
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Was nice to see Rebecca co host alongside Oriini for Newshub Nation.
Also glad that Janika filled in on Newshub @ 8pm on Eden Friday, always love seeing her, shes definitely on the up now being a regular fill in even more for newshub, hope to see her fill in on the newshour soon enough
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Rebecca Wright could be the one to get The Nation back to something worth watching … hasn’t been the same since Lisa Owen left
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I tend to agree, as much as I love Simon hes better suited to long form stories and would be better suited if Three would launch Newshub Investigates as a series rather than specials
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A loss for Three / Discovery but a good move for Tom McRae… And probably still leaves the door open for a return as weeknight anchor in a few years time. AJ have lost a lot of anchors recently so not surprising they are hiring.
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(30/4-1/5/2022) Tom presented Newshub Live at 6pm with Oriini Kaipara on Saturday and Samantha Hayes on Sunday.
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Noticed this morning William Waiirua back on AM after having covid but just as a roving reporter. Bernie still doing weather. Much better.
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Does TVNZ’s Breakfast suffer from not having Matty as a roving weather presenter now that he is a third co-host?
No, so often one of the cohost go to a place and do the show from there
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Oriini Kaipara (working both ends of the day) and Mitch McCann anchoring…
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Yay a big welcome back to Alex, its a shame shes not on the weekdays permanently, she is a fantastic weather presenter and a brilliant newsreader at that, pity shes not blonde, she would have been a shoe in, but three and tvnz love having a blonde
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I watched the Parliament TV coverage instead of TVNZ or Newshub, but I question why they have an afternoon special with panelists based in Auckland who evidently have not been in the lock up and have only had a few minutes at best to look at the budget.
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