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PaulaPenfold

  • Journalist
  • Producer
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As a reporter for TV3 on 60 Minutes, 3rd Degree, and 3D, investigative journalist Paula Penfold covered some of the country’s biggest stories. After the cancellation of 3D in late 2015, Penfold joined Fairfax Media, alongside her 3D colleagues Eugene Bingham and Toby Longbottom, and began working on a run of award-winning projects.

Screenography

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2022 Reporter, Research Web
Fire and Fury
2022 Reporter, Research Web
Deleted
2021 Writer, Reporter Web
Emma
2020 Producer, Reporter Web
False Profit
2020 Reporter Web

Biography

Investigative journalist Paula Penfold has worked on a number of high profile stories — most notably the Teina Pora case, in which a man wrongly convicted was released from prison after 21 years. In 2015 she called the case “the hardest but most rewarding story I’ve done in 25 years of journalism”.

Awards

2023 Voyager Media Awards (New Zealand)
Best Documentary: Fire and Fury

2022 Voyager Media Awards 
Best Innovation in Digital Storytelling: Deleted

2021 Voyager Media Awards 
Best Documentary: Emma

“I believe journalism's role is to give a voice to those who wouldn't otherwise have one; to hold the powerful to account. I believe in that old journalistic idiom of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.”

— Paula Penfold