TiniMolyneux
- Journalist
- Presenter
- Producer
In her 10 year tenure as Māori Affairs correspondent for One News, Tini Molyneux fronted some of the biggest news stories in New Zealand, let alone Māoridom — including the Foreshore and seabed hīkoi, the birth of the Māori Party and the 2007 Urerewa police raids. She began her 30 year television career as a newsreader for Te Karere, and went on to present and report stories for Waka Huia and Marae.
Screenography
Biography
Te reo Māori was the door into a new career for television broadcaster Tini Molyneux. It was the early 1980s and she was perfectly happy working for Air New Zealand when her sister — who worked in television — dropped by with work colleagues Hone Edwards, Derek Wooster and Robert Pouwhare. When they conversed in Māori, her guests recognised something in Molyneux she never knew she had.
Awards
2018 Huawei Mate20 New Zealand Television Awards
Television Legend Award
“It’s time for us to treat the Māori language as something living — for too long we’ve treated it as this delicate taonga that needs to be preserved. That’s not what it’s about.”