Hilary Barry

Hilary Barry has long experience of reporting and reading the news. In 1993 she began a two decade stint at TV3. In 2005 she became anchor of the channel's primetime news, alongside Mike McRobert. Barry went on to report from the Canterbury quakes, the 2011 royal wedding and the famine in Africa. She left TV3 in 2016, and began co-hosting TVNZ's Breakfast; in 2018 she moved to primetime show Seven Sharp. 

I've never found anything better to do with my life. Once you've felt the adrenaline rush of breaking news, it's very difficult to break away. Hilary Barry, in an interview with Kim Thomas, The Dominion Post, 6 October 2009