MihingarangiForbes
- Journalist
- Presenter
- Producer
Award-winning journalist Mihingarangi Forbes has spent 20+ years working in television, reporting in both te reo and English. Feilding-raised Forbes began her career as an intern on Te Karere, before moving to One News, Campbell Live, 20/20 and Native Affairs. She resigned from Māori Television in 2015, claiming she'd lost control over her stories, and began presenting Three's new current affairs show The Hui in 2016.
Screenography
Biography
Mihingarangi Forbes was playing journalist at the age of eight. Growing up in Feilding, she would make up news and weather bulletins, then record herself reading them on a tape cassette machine. "I've always been the person who wants to be the bearer of news in my family. If something was going on when I was a kid, I would be the busybody and tell everyone what's up," Forbes told The Sunday Star-Times in 2015.
Awards
2024 New Zealand Television Awards / Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Best Māori Programme (shared with Annabelle Lee-Mather): for NZ Wars: Stories of Tauranga Moana
“Without te reo, God knows if I'd ever have been in journalism. It has opened so many doors for me and given me an understanding of the people whose stories I was doing.”