Rawdon Christie is an English New Zealand news reporter.

Christie was born in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. He attended Marlborough College

Marlborough College

Marlborough College is a British co-educational independent school for day and boarding pupils, located in Marlborough, Wiltshire.Founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, the school now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs. Currently there are just over 800...

, and then Edinburgh University, where he gained a Bachelor of Music degree.

After a spell as a teacher of performing arts and sports coach at King's School

King's School (Auckland)

King's School is a primary school for boys from Years 1 to 8 . It is situated in Auckland, New Zealand, and it also has strong links to the Anglican church; the Anglican Bishop of Auckland and the Dean of Auckland are permanent members of the school's Board Of Governors...

 in 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...

, Christie attended the London College of Printing to undertake a postgraduate course in broadcast journalism. While there he won the 'Young Broadcast Journalist of the Year' award in 2000 (Broadcast Journalism Training Council). He started his journalism career with the BBC in Cambridge, firstly with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Cambridgeshire. It originally broadcast from studios on Hills Road close to the train station in Cambridge - which have now moved to a new multi-million pound centre at the Cambridge Business Park on Cowley Road - ...

, then with BBC Look East.

In 2003 Christie took up a position as a reporter with Television New Zealand

Television New Zealand

Television New Zealand, more commonly referred to, and stylized as TVNZ, is a government-owned corporation television network broadcasting in New Zealand and parts of the Pacific. It operates TV1, TV2, TVNZ7, TVNZ Heartland, TVNZ U and new media services....

's ONE News. In 2005 he moved to TVNZ's daily current affairs programme, Close Up

Close Up

Close Up is a half-hour long New Zealand current affairs programme produced by Television New Zealand. The programme airs at 7.00pm weeknights on TV ONE and is presented by Mark Sainsbury with Paul Henry as the back up supporting host.The show remains the country's most watched night news and...

. He has had stints as presenter of Midday, Tonight

Tonight (TVNZ television programme)

Tonight is an evening news programme broadcasting on New Zealand state broadcaster TVNZ. It airs each night at 10:30pm, and competes directly with TV3's Nightline....

, Sunday

Sunday (TVNZ programme)

Sunday is a current affairs programme broadcast on TV ONE in New Zealand on Sunday nights at . Presented by Miriama Kamo with a team of New Zealand reporters, the program began when TV ONE did not renew its rights to 60 Minutes which had aired previously in time slot...

, the New Zealand version of Dragons' Den

Dragons' Den

Dragons' Den is a series of reality television programmes featuring entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas in order to secure investment finance from a panel of venture capitalists. The show originated in Japan as "Manē no Tora"...

and Agenda

Agenda (TVNZ programme)

Agenda was an hour long current affairs show in New Zealand. It screened at 10 am on Sundays on TV ONE.Its final host was Rawdon Christie with political interviews conducted by Guyon Espiner. Christie and Espiner were joined each week by three panelists from the New Zealand media.In late November...

. In July 2007 Rawdon returned to ONE News and eventually became TVNZ's first producer / presenter when he took over ONE News at 4:30 in 2009. He is also fill-in presenter for ONE News Tonight, Breakfast News and for One News at 6.

Christie lives in Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

 with his wife and three children.

His aunt is the movie star Julie Christie

Julie Christie

Julie Frances Christie is a British actress. Born in British India to English parents, at the age of six Christie moved to England, where she attended boarding school....

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