New Zealand sports journalist and broadcaster Phil Gifford has reportedly died aged 79.<\/p>\n
Gifford had been a journalist for more than 50 years and was a regular contributor to the New Zealand Herald since 2019.<\/p>\n
He covered two Rugby World Cups, two Olympics and the appointments of three All Blacks coaches.<\/p>\n
Sport commentator Tony Johnson told Breakfast he was “very sad” to hear of Gifford’s death, and shared some stories of his long career. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n
Gifford wrote more than 20 sport books and was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2024 New Year’s Honours.<\/p>\n
His career began in radio where he worked at multiple stations including Radio Sport, ZM and Radio Hauraki. <\/p>\n
He is survived by wife Jan and his children Emmalene, Jane, Scott and Adam.<\/p>\n
The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including terror on board an Israel bound plane, and farewell to a famous voice of sport. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand sports journalist and broadcaster Phil Gifford has reportedly died aged 79. Gifford had been a journalist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,1073,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-616746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-media","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616746","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=616746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}