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Former TVNZ political editors pick top moments to mark 50th anniversary of TV news

November 5, 2019

Corin Dann, Guyon Espiner, Mark Sainsbury, Linda Clark and Richard Harman pick their standout TV news moment. (Source: Other)

To mark the 50th anniversary of television news in New Zealand, former TVNZ political editors and correspondents have revealed their standout moments while working in Parliament.

TVNZ1's Q+A spoke to Richard Harman, Linda Clark, Mark Sainsbury, Guyon Espiner and Corin Dann - who collectively covered from Robert Muldoon as Prime Minister to the last election.

50 years of TV network news - Seven Sharp counts down its top picks

Q+A is on TVNZ1 on Mondays at 9.30pm, and the episode is then available on TVNZ OnDemand and as a podcast in all the usual places.

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