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MaramenaRoderick

Te Arawa, Te Rarawa
  • Executive
  • Producer
  • Director
  • Reporter
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Raised in Taumaranui, Maramena Roderick did a long stint as an NZ Herald journalist before moving into television. Fronting the camera as a reporter — including time in Europe as TVNZ's first Māori correspondent — led to work directing and producing a run of acclaimed documentaries. She won Qantas Awards for Best Māori Language Programme with both Māori leader series E Tu Kahikatea, and for Ka Haku Au - A Poet's Lament, a documentary about composer Kohine Whakarua Ponika. In 2014 Roderick was made Head of News and Current Affairs for Māori Television; later she became the channel's overall Head of Content.

Screenography

Origins
2020 - 2023 Associate Producer Television
2017 Head of News and Current Affairs Television
2012 - 2015 Producer Series
Ka Mate: The Haka, the Legend
2011 Producer Television

Awards

2018 Huawei Mate20 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best News Coverage (with Lynette Amoroa): for Te Kaea 
Nominated for Best Live Event Coverage (with Carmen Parahi): for Election Aotearoa Maori Seats Debate

“When women on staff come and say they want to be in my job, I love it. I don't think anyone should be in a job forever — you always need fresh eyes. And I do hope, and I do believe, there'll be another wahine Māori who will come through and will take it to the next level, maybe because of a little bit that I did to open that door and get her there, and I'll celebrate that.”

Maramena Roderick, in Sunday magazine, 3 September 2017