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RobHarley

  • Reporter
  • Producer
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Journalist, director and producer Rob Harley has won many awards in a career spanning four decades. He was a high profile investigative reporter on TVNZ’s flagship news and current affairs shows Frontline, Assignment and Sunday from 1990 to 2003. In 2014 he co-produced  highly popular documentary series Keeping up with the Kaimanawas

Screenography

The Day My Legs Stopped Working
2014 Director, Producer Television
The Survivors Guide to Hell
2014 Subject, Director Series
Chasing the Ghost
2009 Director, Producer Television
2002 - 2024 Reporter Series

Biography

Born and raised in Auckland, Rob Harley is one of New Zealand’s most experienced broadcast journalists. His career has included work in radio, daily news at TVNZ and more than a decade on primetime current affairs series Assignment and Frontline.

Awards

2001 New York Festivals
Gold Medal for Coverage of Breaking News: for Assignment, Firefighter turned Arsonist story

2001 Qantas Media Awards
Winner in Investigative Section - Current Affairs Television: for Assignment 

“...television is where most people get their daily fix of information from. Television has a way to actually bring it to life, and you actually get to look into the eyes of another moving breathing human being, and hear their pain and hear their story.”

Rob Harley, on website Like Minds, Like Mine