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Hilary Barry

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

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. Hilary Barry, in an interview with Kim Thomas, The Dominion Post, 6 October 2009

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Talkback

2021, As: Hilary Barry - Web

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Give Us a Clue - excerpt

2021, Team Captain - Television

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On the Rag

2019, Subject - Web

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NZ On Air 30th Birthday - Billy T James

2019, Subject - Web

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NZ On Air 30th Birthday - Wellington Paranormal

2019, Subject - Web

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Three Turns 30 - Promo

2019, Subject - Television

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The Spinoff TV - Cow-pocalypse

2018, Subject - Television

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Bloopers - News

2018, Presenter - Television

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Great War Stories 3 - Alexander Aitken

2016, Presenter, Narrator - Television

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Great War Stories 3 - Gallipoli tortoise

2016, Presenter, Narrator - Television

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Great War Stories 3 - HMS New Zealand

2016, Presenter - Television

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Great War Stories 3 - Leslie Beauchamp

2016, Presenter, Narrator - Television

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Great War Stories 3 - Peter Howden

2016, Presenter, Narrator - Television

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Great War Stories 3 - Ranji Wilson

2016, Presenter, Narrator - Television

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Great War Stories 3 - The Marquette

2016, Presenter, Narrator - Television

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Newshub - Hilary Barry's last TV3 bulletin (excerpt, 27 May 2016)

2016, Newsreader - Television

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Paul Henry

2015 - 2016, Presenter - Television

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Great War Stories 2 - Ettie Rout

2015, Narrator, Presenter - Television

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Great War Stories 2 - Hāmi Grace

2015, Presenter - Television

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Great War Stories 2 - Lottie Le Gallais

2015, Presenter, Narrator - Television

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Great War Stories 2 - Ormond Burton

2015, Presenter, Narrator - Television

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Great War Stories 2 - The Executed Five

2015, Presenter, Narrator - Television

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Great War Stories 2 - The Harper Brothers

2015, Presenter - Television

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Great War Stories 2 - William Malone

2015, Presenter, Narrator - Television

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Paul Henry - John Key's '9-in-10' challenge

2015, Presenter - Television

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Great War Stories

2014 - 2018, Presenter, Narrator - Television

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Great War Stories 1 - Bess and the War Horses

2014, Presenter - Television

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Great War Stories 1 - Harold Gillies and Henry Pickerill

2014, Presenter - Television

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Great War Stories 1 - Keith Caldwell

2014, Presenter - Television

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Great War Stories 1 - Lady Liverpool

2014, Presenter - Television

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Great War Stories 1 - Leonard Hart

2014, Narrator, Presenter - Television

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Great War Stories 1 - Mark Briggs

2014, Presenter - Television

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Great War Stories 1 - Rikihana Carkeek

2014, Presenter - Television

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Seven Sharp

2017 - Ongoing, Presenter - Television

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The Banker, the Escorts and the $18 Million

2011, Subject - Television

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The Secret Lives of Dancers

2010 - 2014, Narrator - Television

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The Secret Lives of Dancers - Episode Two

2010, Narrator - Television

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Baby Charlotte

2005, Narrator - Television

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What's Your Verdict

2005 - 2006, Narrator - Television

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What's Your Verdict - Mark Lundy

2005, Narrator - Television

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Breakfast

2016 - ongoing, Presenter - Television

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You Make the Whole World Smile

1992, Performer - Music video

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Nightline

1998, Newsreader - Television

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3 News / Newshub

1993 - 2016, Reporter, Newsreader - Television