“You’d think I would be getting better at this,” he laughs as he struggles to get the camera going on his computer at the start of our video call.
Interviewing a savvy television and radio journalist like Jack Tame would be a somewhat nerve-wracking job for any fellow reporter, but Jack’s trademark smile can dissolve any nerves, unless you’re a politician.
When reading up on Jack’s long list of achievements to date, the first thing that stands out is his work ethic. Knowing from an early age that he wanted to be a broadcast journalist, Jack got his first taste of the media world during an internship on TVNZ 1 morning show Breakfast while at Christchurch’s New Zealand Broadcasting School.
Seeing his potential and clear hunger for a career in this field, he was hired, and after some years working whatever shifts he could get, moved to New York to work as a foreign correspondent for TVNZ at the age of 25.
When he returned to New Zealand, he was greeted with the unsociable hours of a co-host on , and now counts himself lucky that now he can “sleep in” until on Newstalk ZB and on TVNZ 1.
