IanSinclair
- Journalist
Ian Sinclair has reported from every corner of the globe. After experiencing dictatorship while studying flamenco guitar in Spain, Sinclair returned home to New Zealand, and eventually began working for TVNZ in 1986. Since then he has covered four major wars and been a mainstay as an investigative journalist, winning New Zealand’s Qantas Media Award for Best Investigation in 2009.
Screenography
Biography
Ian Sinclair has spent three decades as a reporter for TVNZ, after almost a decade in newspapers and radio. As a television reporter he has visited some of the most intrepid places on the globe, including war reporting in Bougainville, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan — where he found being a Kiwi afforded particular benefits: discount bribes when crossing the border.
Awards
2009 Qantas Television Awards
Investigation of the Year
Nominated for Journalist of the Year
2007 Qantas Television Awards
Best Current Affairs Reporting: for Taito Phillip Field corruption story
“Franco’s crackdown on political dissent — which included Nuremburg-style rallies, arrests and executions — awakened my interest in general news journalism.”