Simon Dallow will step down from his post as presenter of\u00a01News at Six\u00a0at the end of the month, after nearly 20 years in the seat.<\/p>\n
Melissa Stokes will move from her weekend presenting role to anchor the bulletin Monday to Friday, it was announced on Monday.<\/p>\n
Dallow, who previously worked as a barrister, joined TVNZ as a presenter in 1993. He appeared on\u00a0Newsnight\u00a0and other 1News bulletins. He worked on\u00a0Agenda\u00a0and\u00a0Q+A\u00a0before taking the helm at\u00a01News at Six\u00a0weeknights alongside former co-host Wendy Petrie.<\/p>\n
TVNZ Chief Executive, Jodi O\u2019Donnell said Dallow’s departure marked the end of an era for\u00a01News at Six.\u00a0His last bulletin will be 28 November.<\/p>\n
“We are deeply grateful for his years of service,” O’Donnell said in a statement.<\/p>\n
New lead presenter, Stokes, has been with TVNZ for more than two decades, including a stint as Europe Correspondent. She’s been presenting\u00a01News at Six\u00a0on the weekends since 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s done an exceptional job fronting weekends and this experience alongside the strong leadership role she plays in our newsroom makes her a natural successor,” O\u2019Donnell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon Dallow will step down from his post as presenter of\u00a01News at Six\u00a0at the end of the month,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-114730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}