{"id":183864,"date":"2025-12-14T21:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183864\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:42:10","slug":"tvnz-names-tova-obrien-as-new-breakfast-co-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183864\/","title":{"rendered":"TVNZ names Tova O\u2019Brien as new Breakfast co-host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>14 Dec, 2025 08:34 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Tova O&#8217;Brien will join Breakfast in 2026. Photo \/ MediaWorks screengrab<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">TVNZ has revealed political journalist Tova O\u2019Brien as the new co-host of Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">O\u2019Brien replaces Jenny-May Clarkson who left the morning news show last month, and joins Chris Chang as host beginning in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         TVNZ executive editor &#8211; news and current affairs Phil O\u2019Sullivan said O\u2019Brien brought a wealth of<br \/>\n         broadcast experience across television and radio.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cShe\u2019s delivered numerous high-profile interviews with global figures and provided live, breaking news coverage from across Aotearoa and further afield. She\u2019s sharp, energetic and trusted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBest of all, she understands morning audiences inside out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 14 Dec, 2025 08:34 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[806,7054,116402,42,5844,21409,117,43,96136,18154,12860,40,38,41,39,116401,6445],"class_list":["post-183864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-as","tag-breakfast","tag-cohost","tag-headlines","tag-journalist","tag-names","tag-new","tag-news","tag-obrien","tag-political","tag-revealed","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tova","tag-tvnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183864","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=183864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}