Some children ask for a specific cake. Others want goodie bags. But when Mitch McCann turned five, he had one unusual request for his birthday party – a current affairs quiz.
“That’s a bit weird, right?” laughs Newshub’s first-ever US correspondent. “I probably even told mum the questions I wanted her to ask so I would win it!”
It was this early love for news that shaped Ashburton-born Mitch, who “all through school” knew exactly what he wanted to do.
Now based in New York with wife Olivia Schwass, the 28-year-old has covered a
