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Cathy Campbell

Journalist, Presenter

Cathy Campbell became the first woman in New Zealand to anchor a sports programme, after joining TV One’s Sportsnight in 1989. The longtime news and sports reporter moved into newsreading, and later ran PR and events company Cathy Campbell Communications. She died on 23 February 2012, after a two-year battle with a brain tumour.

I’ve had some great breaks. But I’ve earned them. Cathy Campbell, in a July 1993 More article