Skip to main content

RichardLong

  • Newsreader
Richard-Long-Key-Profile.jpg

Richard Long — not to be confused with the ex newspaper editor, or the cinematographer  read the news on TVNZ's primetime bulletin for almost 20 years. After co-anchoring TV One's 6pm news with Philip Sherry, Long began a 16 year run co-presenting alongside Judy Bailey (apart from a brief period where he moved to weekends). Having started as a reporter, Long presented live broadcasts during the 1990 Aramoana shootings.

Screenography

2002 Narrator Television
2002 Presenter Television
2002 Subject Television
1999 Subject Television

Awards

2002 TV Guide New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Presenter: for One News

“It's the people I will miss.”

Richard Long in 2003, after finishing his final news bulletin on TVNZ.

Related images

Richard-Long-Gallery-1.jpg
Newsreaders Richard Long and Judy Bailey, 1992.
Kindly Supplied by the Dominion Post.
Richard-Long-Gallery-2.jpg
Richard Long, Network News reader, prepares his script for the evening news. 1990.
Photographer John Selkirk, kindly supplied by the Dominion Post.