JanetMcIntyre
- Journalist
Brisbane-raised Janet McIntyre moved to New Zealand in 1989, and filed reports for 3 News before moving on to 60 Minutes and 20/20. Since switching to TVNZ she has been a long-time mainstay of current affairs show Sunday. She has filed stories from Kandahar to Gloriavale, and tackled interviewees ranging from Fijian dictators to Madonna. She was named TV Journalist of the Year at the 2005 Qantas TV Awards.
Screenography
Biography
Janet McIntyre gained early affection for New Zealand as a teenager, thanks to a Lions Club exchange to Fairlie in the Mackenzie Country. Coats and woolly hats proved a novelty for the high schooler from Brisbane. After studying journalism as part of a Bachelor of Arts degree at Queensland University, she pestered Channel 9 News in Brisbane for months, and won a cadetship. McIntyre learned the TV reporting ropes in the smoky newsroom, to a score of typewriters and faxes: "reams of my copy was torn up before I got a handle on newswriting!"
Awards
2019 Huawei Mate30 Pro New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Reporter of the Year: for Sunday
“When you jump into a story that’s not really been trodden on, you sometimes have that sense of the great things journalism can be: you know you’re inside a secret and you’re going to be able to reveal it.”