Neil Waka

Neil Waka is a New Zealand broadcaster and journalist. He has been in broadcasting for 25 years beginning in radio as a news and current affairs journalist before moving into Television. Waka helped establish and was the first presenter in New Zealand to present the weekday 4:30 pm news bulletins on ONE News for TVNZ, for almost two years from 2007.[1][2]

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Neil Waka is one of New Zealand's most experienced broadcast journalists (radio and television) and one of the first of Maori ethnicity to break into mainstream television as a news anchor for more than two decades.

He is also one of only a handful of news anchors who has held a full-time news presenting role at the two largest mainstream networks, TV3 and One News.

When he departed television instead of consulting or retiring as is the norm, he took on a corporate role with global organisation, General Motors Holden New Zealand for five years before moving on to an even larger global brand, Coco-Cola Amatil New Zealand as Head of Corporate Affairs NZ & Fiji. One of the first people in the world to achieve two global corporate's at senior management level following a highly successful television news anchor/journalist career.

After nine years out of the media spotlight, Neil was again back on New Zealand television screens as a guest sports news sports news presenter for the highly fancied Newshub's AM Show prior to Christmas 2019. Could this be a prelude to more media opportunities coming his way in 2020, will we see more of Neil Waka on our television screens in 2020? Watch this space...

References
  1. McNaughton, Maggie (27 October 2007). "4.30pm slot pulls in viewers". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
  2. Francis, Clio (20 March 2009). "Taxis and booze cut as TVNZ wields axe". The Dominion Post. Retrieved 27 February 2010.


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