Jennie Goodwin is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 journalist

Journalist

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, television newsreader

Newsreader

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 and continuity announcer. In June 1975 she became a news presenter on the newly launched TV-2, making her New Zealand's first female television newsreader. She is also the first woman within the Commonwealth of Nations

Commonwealth of Nations

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 to present a prime time news programme. Prior to her work at TV-2, Goodwin had worked in radio before moving into television in the 1960s, where she initially worked as a continuity announcer. In 2009 she was one of several former TVNZ presenters to return to the station to celebrate 40 years of the broadcaster.

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