HilaryBarry
- Journalist
- Newsreader
Hilary Barry has long experience of reporting and reading the news. In 1993 she began a two decade stint at TV3. In 2005 she became anchor of the channel's primetime news, alongside Mike McRobert. Barry went on to report from the Canterbury quakes, the 2011 royal wedding and the famine in Africa. She left TV3 in 2016, and began co-hosting TVNZ's Breakfast; in 2018 she moved to primetime show Seven Sharp.
Screenography
Biography
Hilary Barry made her mark at Wellington's Queen Margaret College, becoming head prefect in her final year.
Barry tried architecture at Victoria University, before realising she was more suited to journalism school. As she told students at her old high school, her only goal "was to work in radio". After completing the course she got a job in the Wairarapa, at a small private radio station owned and run by Paul Henry. "He taught me how to read the news."
Awards
2020 New Zealand Television Awards
Television Presenter of the Year
Nominated for Best Presenter - Entertainment (with Jeremy Wells): for Seven Sharp
Nominated for Best Presenter - News & Current Affairs: for Seven Sharp
“I've never found anything better to do with my life. Once you've felt the adrenaline rush of breaking news, it's very difficult to break away. ”