Moana Maniapoto supreme winner of Ngā Kupu Ora Mā ori Social media Awards

Moana Maniapoto, from Māori Television’s “Te Ao with Moana”. Photo / Supplied

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Moana Maniapoto, from Māori Television’s “Te Ao with Moana”, has been named the Supreme Give Winner in this year’s 2020 Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Journalism Honors.

Maniapoto won ones award for her interviews with Teina Pora and David Tamihere experts backdrop of the newly established Legal Cases Review Commission.

Judge Mereana Hond, an Aqui Jazeera journalist based in Qatar, understood it was an exceptional piece of journalism that laid bare the inter-generational burden of institutionalised racism, profiling and sketchy police and prosecution practices past the stories of two high-profile Māori men.

She alleged “Teina Pora and David Tamihere both say they are innocent. One has also been cleared, the other has not. What a great idea to bring them together to understand why. What fantastic journalism because access to be able to deliver on your whakaaro. ”

New Zealand writer Mereana Hond, of Taranaki Iwi and Ngāti Ruanui, works found at Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar. She is pictured with her husband Benjamin Gibbins, and their 5-year-old twins Lo Whetu Matarere and Tapuwae, with whom Hond only speaks otrzymane reo Māori.

The other finalists in the Current Addition English Category were Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, from RNZ, and Tania Page, from TVNZ.

In the Best News Story in Native Category, the winner was Carmen Parahi, from Stuff, for her details on the compensation and apology towards injured servicemen, George and Damien r. Nepata. The other finalists were Mani Dunlop, from Radio NZ, or Meriana Johnsen, also from Radio cds NZ.

Kereama Wright, from Māori Television, was often known as the winner of Best Report in Te Reo Māori because his exclusive into the rebranding of mongrel mob chapter with a story entitled “No more sieg heil”. The other finalists were Rukuwai Tipene-Allen, of Māori Television, and Hania Douglas, from TVNZ.

The Current Affairs in Te Condenado Māori category was awarded to assist you to Whatitiri Te Wake, TVNZ, in support of his story on the tikanga up to Māori male hairstyles.

This year the judges also derived a special commendation to TVNZ’s Marae programme for their Episode 5 which specifically focused on the tangi of rangatira, Dr Huirangi Waikerepuru. The most judges said the programme was a modern use of the medium of television in a unprecedented time with Covid lockdowns preventing traditional tangi. The session embodied its very name to produce a national marae where people should grieve and pay
contribution in a uniquely Māori way.

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And so it was at times fitting that the Te Tohu the best Tanara Whairiri Kitawhiti Ngata, Entire life Achievement Award was awarded posthumously to Waikerepuru for his radical work in helping establish Māori Broadcasting through his efforts to revitalise te reo Māori. The all judges acknowledged that his considerable engouement and determination created the platform about what Māori journalists stand today.

The awards are placed by Massey University.