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    Dec 07, 2020 4 minutes

    New Fair Go reporter Alistar Kata was 12 years old when she watched the 9/11 New York terror attacks unfold on TV. The world dramatically changed on that day in 2001, and so did the mind of the impressionable Alistar. Watching the World Trade Centre collapse and the devastation that followed, the young Cook Island-Māori girl was inspired to become a television journalist so she could change the world.

    “I remember that day. Our whole class stopped as our teacher rolled out the TV on a trolley,” says Alistar, 31, who is also known as Star. “Watching the images of the Twin Towers collapsing was ingrained in my mind. The power of those images and seeing that journalists can be

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