{"id":146847,"date":"2025-11-21T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/146847\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:41:09","slug":"tvnz-dominates-news-and-current-affairs-at-nz-screen-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/146847\/","title":{"rendered":"TVNZ dominates news and current affairs at NZ Screen Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

TVNZ\u2019s excellence in news and current affairs has been recognised at the New Zealand Screen Awards, held in Auckland last night.<\/p>\n

The broadcaster\u2019s journalists dominated the news categories, including plaudits for its coverage of the M\u0101ori King\u2019s tangi.<\/p>\n

John Campbell was named Best Presenter: News and Current Affairs and Indira Stewart was crowned Reporter of the Year.<\/p>\n

Te Karere<\/a> host Scotty Morrison won the coveted Screen Personality of the Year award \u2013 the only honour that is judged by public voting.<\/p>\n

The awards, held at Auckland\u2019s Viaduct Events Centre, recognise excellence in the TV and film industry.<\/p>\n

1News won the Best News Coverage award for its reporting on the M\u0101ori King Kiingi Tuheitia’s tangi<\/a> last year, featuring a range of live broadcasts from T\u016brangawaewae Marae in the town of Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia.<\/p>\n

1News was also a finalist in this category for the coverage of the Tasman floods earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The investigation into Shincheonji led journalist Indira Stewart to reflect on her own experiences as a Christian. (Source: TVNZ\/ Tuingapapai Free Wesleyan Tongan Methodist Church)<\/p>\n

John Campbell was named Best Presenter: News and Current Affairs for a portfolio that included covering the M\u0101ori King\u2019s funeral. His entry also featured hosting a live Q+A special on Budget Day, presenting a Q+A local government election special and his fill-in role co-hosting Breakfast.<\/p>\n

Jack Tame, Q+A host and the newly-announced 1News weekend bulletin presenter<\/a>, was also a finalist in this category.<\/p>\n

Campbell\u2019s InDepth team colleague Stewart won the coveted Reporter of the Year category.<\/p>\n

Her portfolio featured Children of Prisoners<\/a> – an investigation into the lives of children serving their own invisible sentence when a parent is sent to prison.<\/p>\n

Other stories included a series of interviews which gave a rare insight into the lives of women in gangs<\/a>, probing accusations that the Shincheonji Church of Jesus<\/a> is a cult, and for an investigation into under-age sex workers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1News Pacific Correspondent Barbara Dreaver was a finalist for Reporter of the Year.<\/p>\n

Stewart was also a double winner at the Voyager Media Awards<\/a> held earlier this year.<\/p>\n

“It’s extremely gratifying to see 1News’ journalism be recognised across so many categories at the NZTV Awards,” said TVNZ’s Executive Editor of News, Phil O’Sullivan. <\/p>\n

“It’s a great responsibility to report and present coverage on news events in this country and we are thrilled our people are acknowledged for doing it so well.”<\/p>\n

\"Scotty<\/p>\n

Scotty Morrison won the Screen Personality of the Year award. (Source: TVNZ)<\/p>\n

In television, the second season of TVNZ\u2019s crime drama The Gone<\/a> led the series categories with four prestigious awards. <\/p>\n

Among these were New Zealand On Air Best Drama Series and Screen Auckland Best Director: Drama Series. <\/p>\n

The first season of The Gone, produced by Kingfisher Films\/Keeper Pictures and Southern Light Films, claimed five awards at the 2023 New Zealand Television Awards.<\/p>\n

In the film categories, the late director Lee Tamahori\u2019s historical drama The Convert was the standout winner, receiving recognition for Directors and Editors Guild of Aotearoa New Zealand Best Director: Drama Feature, Images and Sound Best Cinematography: Feature, Best Production Design: Feature, Best Costume Design: Feature, and Best Makeup Design: Feature.<\/p>\n

Tamahori, 75, died earlier this month<\/a> after a battle with Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TVNZ\u2019s excellence in news and current affairs has been recognised at the New Zealand Screen Awards, held in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,417,437,6445],"class_list":{"0":"post-146847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-television","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-tvnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146847","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=146847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}