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Mihingarangi Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes was playing journalist at the age of eight. Growing up in Feilding, she would make up news and weather bulletins, then record herself reading them on a tape cassette machine. "I've always been the person who wants to be the bearer of news in my family. If something was going on when I was a kid, I would be the busybody and tell everyone what's up," Forbes told The Sunday Star-Times in 2015.
As a teenager, television reporting piqued her interest. "I do remember asking Mum when I was watching TV, 'What's that job called?' because it was never anything I saw at the careers day, which was nursing and teaching. I wasn't really interested in that."
The daughter of a Māori father and Pākehā mother, Forbes was loosely familiar with tikanga, but yearned to be fluent in Māori. At the age of 19, she moved to Hamilton to study a one year te reo immersion course at Waikato Polytechnic. "It was one of the most frightening but enlightening periods of my life."
At her course prize giving, TVNZ producer Moari Stafford invited Forbes to apply for an internship on Māori news programme Te Karere. She was accepted in 1994, leading her to turn down a place on Rotorua's Waiariki Polytechnic journalism course. Forbes spen
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Broadcaster Mihingarangi Forbes with an alternative son Taika. (Photo supplied)
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Award-Winning Journalist, Māori Storyteller & Cultural Ambassador