LindaClark
- Journalist
The screen career of award-winning broadcaster Linda Clark spans seven years as TVNZ’s political editor in the 90s, nine elections, and hosting several current affairs shows (Crossfire, Face the Nation, The Vote). She has also fronted RNZ’s Nine to Noon, and edited Grace magazine. In 2006 Clark retrained as a lawyer. Clark continues to be a political commentator, while working for law firm Kensington Swan.
Screenography
Biography
Linda Clark's family migrated from England to New Zealand when she was a young girl. Christchurch raised, she completed the first year of a law degree at Canterbury University, before switching to english and politics. A postgraduate diploma in journalism led to work at the Manawatu Standard, the (now defunct) New Zealand Times and then the National Business Review in the heady pre-crash 80s — where she was a political reporter in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. "There was a lot of intellectual rigour about the place," she told The NZ Herald's Carroll du Chateau in 2002. "I was 23 and just like a sponge really."
Awards
2004 Qantas Media Awards (New Zealand)
Best News or Current Affairs Presenter: for Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon
Asia 2000 Prize for Journalism
“Fronting The Court Report is the perfect marriage of my old life in journalism and my new life in law. Like any journalist – and any lawyer – I love little more than getting right to the bottom of a subject, and then arguing the case with a worthy opponent.”