Adrian Stevanon

Award-winning reporter Adrian Stevanon is of Swiss and Samoan descent. Te Awamutu-raised, he first won screen time in the late 90s as a performer on McDonald’s Young Entertainers. Since studying at The NZ Broadcasting School, Stevanon has reported for One News, Tagata Pasifika and Native Affairs. En route, he interviewed the Fijian Prime Minister and produced a story on West Papua, as part of the first Kiwi TV crew to visit in decades. After two years on Māori current affairs show The Hui, Stevanon joined TVNZ's Sunday in 2018 as supervising producer. Leaving TVNZ in 2021, he became the Head of Factual at Great Southern.

fHis story was a small masterpiece that combined awareness, investigation, humour and flair. Judge Jim Tucker on one of Adrian Stevanon's award-winning stories, The NZ Excellence in Reporting Diversity Awards, November 2009