{"id":5161,"date":"2023-06-01T21:15:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T09:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2023-06-01T21:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T09:15:46","slug":"rnz-series-journalists-winners-at-nz-radio-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5161","title":{"rendered":"RNZ series, journalists winners at NZ Radio Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ has won seven awards at the NZ Radio Awards which were announced tonight, while one of its longest serving presenters has been honoured for her contribution to broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ had 27 finalists across the presenting, producing, journalism and podcast categories.<\/p>\n<p><i>Our Changing World\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<i>The Detail\u00a0<\/i>were announced joint winners for Best Factual Podcast &#8211; Episodic.\u00a0<i>The Aotearoa History Show\u00a0<\/i>was judged Best Factual Podcast &#8211; Seasonal. In its 25th anniversary year\u00a0<i>Country Life\u00a0<\/i>prevailed in the Best Daily or Weekly Feature &#8211; Factual &#8211; category.<\/p>\n<p><i>Midday Report\u00a0<\/i>presenter Charlotte Cook&#8217;s podcast\u00a0<i>Hair and Loathing\u00a0<\/i>won Best Documentary or Factual Talk Feature.<\/p>\n<p>The RNZ Concert recording of\u00a0<i>Ka P\u014d, Ka Ao\u00a0<\/i>which featured Rob Ruha with the Auckland Philharmonia won Best Music Feature. This recording of the special Matariki concert also recently won a gold medal at the New York Festival&#8217;s Radio Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Ellingham was the joint winner of Best New Broadcaster &#8211; Journalist alongside Newstalk ZB&#8217;s Jason Walls.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ National\u00a0<i>All Night\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/318067\/newsreader-doesn't-flinch-during-earthquake\">presenter Vicki McKay<\/a>\u00a0was announced as the recipient of a special Services to Broadcasting award.<\/p>\n<p>McKay has been on air with RNZ for three decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During this time she has been the one to handle a number of major breaking news events for the people of Aotearoa, always with compassion and respect,&#8221; said RNZ&#8217;s head of radio David Allan.<\/p>\n<p>Source RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ has won seven awards at the NZ Radio Awards which were announced tonight, while one of its longest serving presenters has been honoured for her contribution to broadcasting. RNZ had 27 finalists across the presenting, producing, journalism and podcast categories. Our Changing World\u00a0and\u00a0The Detail\u00a0were announced joint winners for Best Factual Podcast &#8211; Episodic.\u00a0The Aotearoa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}