Reading the News

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Title

Reading the News

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NZ On Screen

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NZ On Screen

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This archival compendium of Kiwi newsreaders in the hot seat compresses 21 years of footage into four minutes. Sixties BBC-style newsreader Bill Toft tells viewers about a court trial involving pirate station Radio Hauraki; Philip Sherry covers the 1970 shooting of four students at Ohio's Kent State University; and pioneering female newsreader Jennie Goodwin talks weather matters, using graphics and a roller-door style arrangement that now looks sweetly low-tech. The footage also includes the...

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Video

Date created

1966 - 1987

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http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/reading-the-news-1966

Related subjects

aluminium smelter / bob hawke / aids / nambassa / sweetwaters / radio hauraki / kent state / nixon / weather / newsreading / newsreaders / journalism / news

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