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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-470/
- Published: 2021-12-15T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-16T09:02:09.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Featured, Media, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:31

> House Speaker Trevor Mallard has given a rare tribute to a journalist – Newshub’s outgoing political editor **Tova O’Brien.**   
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> “I want to acknowledge the media. I think they act with incredible integrity… probably with a couple of exceptions,” Mallard said in his final speech in Parliament for 2021\.   
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> “I do want to acknowledge Tova O’Brien leaving.   
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> \[…\] “But the thing that I really want to acknowledge is that in her time here, Tova had the choice of probably the biggest parliamentary story possible, or a member’s mental health, and she chose not to go for the hits and the sound bites,” Mallard said.   
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