Oriini Kaipara

Oriini Kaipara (born 1983) is a New Zealand broadcaster, journalist and translator and interpreter of te reo Māori. In 2019 she was the first person to present mainstream television news with a moko kauae tā moko (tattoo).[1][2]

Oriini Kaipara
Born1983 (age 37–38)
Whakatāne, New Zealand
OccupationJournalist
Children4

Biography

Kaipara was born in Whakatāne in 1983. Her iwi are Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Rangitihi. She attended Kura Kaupapa Māori, and trained at South Seas Film and Television School in 2002.[3] In 2017, the Māori Television programme Native Affairs revealed she has essentially pure Māori DNA, despite having some Pākehā ancestry.[4][5]

Career

Kaipara is a presenter on the Three programme Newshub Live at 4.30pm, and has previously worked for TVNZ 1, Māori Television and Mai FM.[1] In 2018, she won the Voyager Best Māori Affairs Reporter for her work on Native Affairs.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Oriini Kaipara first with moko kauae to read major news bulletin". Stuff. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  2. "TVNZ's Oriini Kaipara first with moko tattoo to present mainstream news". The New Zealand Herald. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  3. "'It's for all of us': How news presenter Oriini Kaipara is making history with her moko kauae". Woman's Day. 31 December 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  4. "Oriini Kaipara responds to public reaction". Māori Television. 12 April 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  5. "Native Affairs newsreader Oriini Kaipara identified as 'full-blooded Maori' via DNA test". The New Zealand Herald. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  6. "Oriini Kaipara says best reporting win was a team effortn". Māori Television. 12 May 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
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