TVNZ journalists have scooped top prizes at New Zealand’s annual Voyager Media Awards.
Winners across 66 awards were announced at the 2021 event held at the Auckland Town Hall last night, hosted by presenter Toni Street.
The event celebrated the best in the business across nine categories including digital, broadcast, reporting and video.
TVNZ Sunday’s very own Mark Crysell won the big award for Broadcast Reporter of the Year.
The 29-year old was tasered, pepper-sprayed and tied up by police after he randomly attacked an elderly man in 2018 before he died a few hours later in a cell. (Source: Other)
Crysell was praised by judges for his work on the I Can’t Breathe story, an investigation into the 2018 death of Alo Ngata while in police custody in a spit hood.
In a message shared on Twitter, one of the judges on the night, Kamahl Santamaria said Crysell was a "deserved winner".
Thomas Mead and Jared McCulloch, TVNZ journalists, also won big.
1 NEWS reporter Thomas Mead was with families in Mataura as they made their way home. (Source: Other)
They scooped the Best Breaking News Video award for their joint effort on the Southland floods story.
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