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==Early life==
==Early life==
Hirschfeld is [[Ngāti Porou]], and lost her mother Ngawiki when she was ten. <ref name=":3" /> <ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/person/carol-hirschfeld/biography|title=Carol Hirschfeld|last=|first=|date=|website=NZ On Screen|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-06-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=148770|title=Carol Hirschfeld goes back to the books|last=Cleave |first=Louisa|date=24 August 2000|publisher=New Zealand Herald|accessdate=13 July 2009}}</ref><ref name="Radio New Zealand chairman Richard Griffin says Carol Hirschfeld stuck to meeting claim for four months">{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12020962|title=Radio New Zealand chairman Richard Griffin says Carol Hirschfeld stuck to meeting claim for four months|last=Cheng|first=Derek|date=27 March 2018|website=NZ Herald|publisher=NZME Publishing|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=26 March 2018}}</ref> Her father was an Australian immigrant of German ancestry. <ref name=":3" /> She graduated from the University of Auckland in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Indonesian.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/news-events-and-notices/news/news-2017/03/carol-hirschfeld-honoured-by-the-university-of-auckland.html|title=Carol Hirschfeld honoured by the University of Auckland|last=|first=|date=3 March 2017|website=University of Auckland|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-06-21}}</ref> She started her career after going to the ATI journalism school, at what is now [[AUT University]], in [[Auckland]]
Hirschfeld is [[Ngāti Porou]], and lost her mother Ngawiki when she was ten. <ref name=":3" /> <ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/person/carol-hirschfeld/biography|title=Carol Hirschfeld|last=|first=|date=|website=NZ On Screen|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-06-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=148770|title=Carol Hirschfeld goes back to the books|last=Cleave |first=Louisa|date=24 August 2000|publisher=New Zealand Herald|accessdate=13 July 2009}}</ref><ref name="Radio New Zealand chairman Richard Griffin says Carol Hirschfeld stuck to meeting claim for four months">{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12020962|title=Radio New Zealand chairman Richard Griffin says Carol Hirschfeld stuck to meeting claim for four months|last=Cheng|first=Derek|date=27 March 2018|website=NZ Herald|publisher=NZME Publishing|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=26 March 2018}}</ref> Her father was an Australian immigrant of German ancestry. <ref name=":3" /> She graduated from the [[University of Auckland]] in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Indonesian.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/news-events-and-notices/news/news-2017/03/carol-hirschfeld-honoured-by-the-university-of-auckland.html|title=Carol Hirschfeld honoured by the University of Auckland|last=|first=|date=3 March 2017|website=University of Auckland|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-06-21}}</ref> She started her career after going to the ATI journalism school, at what is now [[AUT University]], in [[Auckland]]


==Career==
==Career==
After graduating with a diploma in journalism, Hirschfeld was hired by Radio New Zealand and sent to work at Lakeland FM in Taupo in 1984. <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/celeb-news/carol-hirschfelds-long-distance-love-3046|title=Carol Hirschfeld's long distance love|website=Now To Love|language=en|access-date=2019-06-23}}</ref> Following this she worked as a [[sub-editor]], first with the [[Auckland Star]] newspaper, then with [[TVNZ]] <ref name=":2" />where she eventually became a current affairs director/producer for ''Frontline'' and ''Assignment''. <ref name=":2" /> She was also briefly a presenter-reporter on ''[[Fair Go]]'' and co-presented ''Crimewatch'' <ref name=":2" />with Ian Johnstone for several years. In 1998 she left TVNZ to become a newsreader on TV3's 6.00pm bulletin with John Campbell. Together the pair also created and produced ''Home Truths'', a late night interview show, and ''A Queen's Tour'', a travel series retracing Queen Elizabeth II's royal tour of New Zealand in 1953. <ref name=":2" /> In 2005 Hirschfeld and Campbell stepped down and were succeeded by [[Hilary Barry]] and [[Mike McRoberts]]. Hirschfeld moved with [[John Campbell (broadcaster)|John Campbell]] to his then-new 7.00pm weekday current-events show ''[[Campbell Live]]'' as the producer, taking the role as presenter on Fridays. Hirschfeld left [[TV3 (New Zealand)|TV3]] in August 2009 to become head of programming at [[Māori Television]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/2427688/Carol-Hirschfeld-leaves-TV3|title=Carol Hirschfeld leaves TV3|last=|first=|date=9 June 2009|website=|publisher=Stuff.co.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=11 September 2018}}</ref>
After graduating with a diploma in journalism, Hirschfeld was hired by [[Radio New Zealand]] and sent to work at Lakeland FM in Taupo in 1984. <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/celeb-news/carol-hirschfelds-long-distance-love-3046|title=Carol Hirschfeld's long distance love|website=Now To Love|language=en|access-date=2019-06-23}}</ref> Following this she worked as a [[sub-editor]], first with the [[Auckland Star]] newspaper, then with [[TVNZ]] <ref name=":2" /> where she eventually became a current affairs director/producer for ''Frontline'' and ''Assignment''. <ref name=":2" /> She was also briefly a presenter-reporter on ''[[Fair Go]]'' and co-presented ''Crimewatch'' <ref name=":2" /> with Ian Johnstone for several years. In 1998 she left TVNZ to become a newsreader on TV3's 6.00pm bulletin with John Campbell. Together the pair also created and produced ''Home Truths'', a late night interview show, and ''A Queen's Tour'', a travel series retracing Queen Elizabeth II's royal tour of New Zealand in 1953. <ref name=":2" /> In 2005 Hirschfeld and Campbell stepped down and were succeeded by [[Hilary Barry]] and [[Mike McRoberts]]. Hirschfeld moved with [[John Campbell (broadcaster)|John Campbell]] to his then-new 7.00pm weekday current-events show ''[[Campbell Live]]'' as the producer, taking the role as presenter on Fridays. Hirschfeld left [[TV3 (New Zealand)|TV3]] in August 2009 to become head of programming at [[Māori Television]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/2427688/Carol-Hirschfeld-leaves-TV3|title=Carol Hirschfeld leaves TV3|last=|first=|date=9 June 2009|website=|publisher=Stuff.co.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=11 September 2018}}</ref>


In 2014, Carol Hirschfeld resigned from Māori Television after a proposed restructuring of the broadcasting service. She later became [[Radio New Zealand]]'s head of content, responsible for news, drama, music, spoken features and the broadcaster's international service, [[Radio New Zealand International]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/76006024/thumbs-up-for-checkpoint-with-john-campbell|title=Thumbs up for Checkpoint with John Campbell|last=Kenny|first=Katie|date=19 January 2016|website=Stuff|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-10-11}}</ref> She implemented RNZ's first foray into multi-media journalism with the launch of ''Checkpoint with John Campbell'' in 2016.<ref name="ODT 27 Mar 2018">{{cite news|title=Carol Hirschfeld resigns over Clare Curran meeting|url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/carol-hirschfeld-resigns-over-clare-curran-meeting|accessdate=11 April 2018|agency=[[New Zealand Media and Entertainment|NZME]]|publisher=''[[Otago Daily Times]]''|date=27 March 2018}}</ref> On 27 March 2018, Hirschfeld resigned from her position at RNZ after admitting she had misled RNZ Chief Executive Paul Thompson about the nature of a meeting she had with Broadcasting Minister [[Clare Curran]] in December 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/29-06-2018/with-john-campbell-the-latest-biggest-name-to-quit-whats-going-on-at-rnz/|title=With John Campbell the latest, biggest name to quit, what's going on at RNZ?|last=Manhire|first=Toby|date=29 June 2018|work=The Spinoff|access-date=2018-10-11|language=en-US}}</ref> Hirschfeld had initially told Thompson that her meeting with Curran had been coincidental but subsequently acknowledged that the meeting had been planned and initiated by Curran.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/04/08/103510/hirschfeld-keeps-her-head-down|title=Hirschfeld keeps her head down|last=Jennings|first=Mark|date=9 April 2018|work=Newsroom|access-date=2018-10-11|language=en-AU}}</ref> Radio New Zealand subsequently corrected its record of the meeting at a Parliamentary Select Committee on 5 April 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018639121/rnz-fronts-up-to-correct-record-at-select-committee|title=RNZ fronts up to correct record at select committee|date=2018-04-05|work=Radio New Zealand|access-date=2018-10-11|language=en-nz}}</ref>
In 2014, Carol Hirschfeld resigned from Māori Television after a proposed restructuring of the broadcasting service. She later became [[Radio New Zealand]]'s head of content, responsible for news, drama, music, spoken features and the broadcaster's international service, [[Radio New Zealand International]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/76006024/thumbs-up-for-checkpoint-with-john-campbell|title=Thumbs up for Checkpoint with John Campbell|last=Kenny|first=Katie|date=19 January 2016|website=Stuff|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-10-11}}</ref> She implemented RNZ's first foray into multi-media journalism with the launch of ''Checkpoint with John Campbell'' in 2016.<ref name="ODT 27 Mar 2018">{{cite news|title=Carol Hirschfeld resigns over Clare Curran meeting|url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/carol-hirschfeld-resigns-over-clare-curran-meeting|accessdate=11 April 2018|agency=[[New Zealand Media and Entertainment|NZME]]|publisher=''[[Otago Daily Times]]''|date=27 March 2018}}</ref> On 27 March 2018, Hirschfeld resigned from her position at RNZ after admitting she had misled RNZ Chief Executive Paul Thompson about the nature of a meeting she had with Broadcasting Minister [[Clare Curran]] in December 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/29-06-2018/with-john-campbell-the-latest-biggest-name-to-quit-whats-going-on-at-rnz/|title=With John Campbell the latest, biggest name to quit, what's going on at RNZ?|last=Manhire|first=Toby|date=29 June 2018|work=The Spinoff|access-date=2018-10-11|language=en-US}}</ref> Hirschfeld had initially told Thompson that her meeting with Curran had been coincidental but subsequently acknowledged that the meeting had been planned and initiated by Curran.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/04/08/103510/hirschfeld-keeps-her-head-down|title=Hirschfeld keeps her head down|last=Jennings|first=Mark|date=9 April 2018|work=Newsroom|access-date=2018-10-11|language=en-AU}}</ref> Radio New Zealand subsequently corrected its record of the meeting at a Parliamentary Select Committee on 5 April 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018639121/rnz-fronts-up-to-correct-record-at-select-committee|title=RNZ fronts up to correct record at select committee|date=2018-04-05|work=Radio New Zealand|access-date=2018-10-11|language=en-nz}}</ref>
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== Private life ==
== Private life ==
Hirschfeld is married to Finlay Macdonald, <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newzealandweddings.co.nz/blog/2013/06/carol-hirschfield|title=Romantic Recollections: Carol Hirschfield - New Zealand Weddings Magazine|website=New Zealand Weddings|language=en|access-date=2019-06-23}}</ref> a former editor of the New Zealand [[New Zealand Listener|Listener]] and book publisher. The couple live in Auckland, and have two children.<ref name=":1" />
Hirschfeld is married to Finlay Macdonald,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newzealandweddings.co.nz/blog/2013/06/carol-hirschfield|title=Romantic Recollections: Carol Hirschfield - New Zealand Weddings Magazine|website=New Zealand Weddings|language=en|access-date=2019-06-23}}</ref> a former editor of the New Zealand [[New Zealand Listener|Listener]] and book publisher. The couple live in Auckland, and have two children.<ref name=":1" />


== Awards ==
== Awards ==

Revision as of 06:31, 23 June 2019

Carol Hirschfeld
Born1962
Auckland, New Zealand
OccupationJournalist, broadcaster, TV presenter, media executive
SpouseFinlay Macdonald
Career
NetworkMaori Television Service
CountryNew Zealand

Carol Hirschfeld (born 1962) is a New Zealand journalist, documentary maker, broadcaster, producer and media executive. She is best known for her role as a TV3 News presenter alongside John Campbell from 1998 until 2005. As a broadcast media executive she has been a powerful proponent for improving the coverage of Māori issues, and of increasing the diversity of voices within the media. “I think the biggest challenge is to have that Māori voice in mainstream media organisations. And one of my concerns has been how to integrate an informed Māori viewpoint into the fabric of our news.” [1]

Early life

Hirschfeld is Ngāti Porou, and lost her mother Ngawiki when she was ten. [1] [2][3][4] Her father was an Australian immigrant of German ancestry. [1] She graduated from the University of Auckland in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Indonesian.[5] She started her career after going to the ATI journalism school, at what is now AUT University, in Auckland

Career

After graduating with a diploma in journalism, Hirschfeld was hired by Radio New Zealand and sent to work at Lakeland FM in Taupo in 1984. [6] Following this she worked as a sub-editor, first with the Auckland Star newspaper, then with TVNZ [2] where she eventually became a current affairs director/producer for Frontline and Assignment. [2] She was also briefly a presenter-reporter on Fair Go and co-presented Crimewatch [2] with Ian Johnstone for several years. In 1998 she left TVNZ to become a newsreader on TV3's 6.00pm bulletin with John Campbell. Together the pair also created and produced Home Truths, a late night interview show, and A Queen's Tour, a travel series retracing Queen Elizabeth II's royal tour of New Zealand in 1953. [2] In 2005 Hirschfeld and Campbell stepped down and were succeeded by Hilary Barry and Mike McRoberts. Hirschfeld moved with John Campbell to his then-new 7.00pm weekday current-events show Campbell Live as the producer, taking the role as presenter on Fridays. Hirschfeld left TV3 in August 2009 to become head of programming at Māori Television.[7]

In 2014, Carol Hirschfeld resigned from Māori Television after a proposed restructuring of the broadcasting service. She later became Radio New Zealand's head of content, responsible for news, drama, music, spoken features and the broadcaster's international service, Radio New Zealand International.[8] She implemented RNZ's first foray into multi-media journalism with the launch of Checkpoint with John Campbell in 2016.[9] On 27 March 2018, Hirschfeld resigned from her position at RNZ after admitting she had misled RNZ Chief Executive Paul Thompson about the nature of a meeting she had with Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran in December 2017.[10] Hirschfeld had initially told Thompson that her meeting with Curran had been coincidental but subsequently acknowledged that the meeting had been planned and initiated by Curran.[11] Radio New Zealand subsequently corrected its record of the meeting at a Parliamentary Select Committee on 5 April 2018.[12]

In June 2018 Hirschfeld was appointed Head of Video/Audio & Content Partnerships at news website Stuff.co.nz.[13]

Private life

Hirschfeld is married to Finlay Macdonald,[14] a former editor of the New Zealand Listener and book publisher. The couple live in Auckland, and have two children.[6]

Awards

  • Best News or Current Affairs Programme (shared with Mark Champion): Assignment, TV Guide New Zealand Film and Television Awards, 1996

Charitable work

Hirschfeld has been active in a number of charities and trusts: Teach First NZ, the Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust, New Zealand LAM Charitable Trust and Breast Cancer Cure.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Husband, Dale (13 February 2016). "Carol Hirschfeld: I love the mission in front of us". E-Tangata. Retrieved 23 June 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ a b c d e "Carol Hirschfeld". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 23 June 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ Cleave, Louisa (24 August 2000). "Carol Hirschfeld goes back to the books". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
  4. ^ Cheng, Derek (27 March 2018). "Radio New Zealand chairman Richard Griffin says Carol Hirschfeld stuck to meeting claim for four months". NZ Herald. NZME Publishing. Retrieved 26 March 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ a b c "Carol Hirschfeld honoured by the University of Auckland". University of Auckland. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  6. ^ a b "Carol Hirschfeld's long distance love". Now To Love. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Carol Hirschfeld leaves TV3". Stuff.co.nz. 9 June 2009. Retrieved 11 September 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  8. ^ Kenny, Katie (19 January 2016). "Thumbs up for Checkpoint with John Campbell". Stuff. Retrieved 11 October 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  9. ^ "Carol Hirschfeld resigns over Clare Curran meeting". Otago Daily Times. NZME. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  10. ^ Manhire, Toby (29 June 2018). "With John Campbell the latest, biggest name to quit, what's going on at RNZ?". The Spinoff. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  11. ^ Jennings, Mark (9 April 2018). "Hirschfeld keeps her head down". Newsroom. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  12. ^ "RNZ fronts up to correct record at select committee". Radio New Zealand. 5 April 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  13. ^ "Broadcaster Carol Hirschfeld shakes off RNZ departure, joins Stuff". Stuff. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  14. ^ "Romantic Recollections: Carol Hirschfield - New Zealand Weddings Magazine". New Zealand Weddings. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  15. ^ "Carol Hirschfeld Awards". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 22 June 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
Media offices
Preceded by Newsreader of 3 News
(with John Campbell)
1998 – 2005 		Succeeded by
First Producer of Campbell Live
2005 – 2009 		Succeeded by
Pip Keane
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