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WALKING THE TALK

When they're not presenting the news or questioning politicians, Jenny Suo, Isobel Ewing and Jack Tame can be found with their hiking boots on.

TVNZ reporter and presenter Suo loves a hike where no one can reach her. When New Zealand entered its second round of level 4 lockdown last August, she was in the South Island filming a profile on Blackball, an old mining town. Because she was so close to the Paparoa Track, she decided to do the walk and meet the production team when she came out.

“I walked out on the last day thinking it was weird that no one was there to meet me,” she says.

“I turned on my phone and had so many messages, like ‘how are you going to get home?’.”

Suo didn't grow up with camping holidays or

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