House Speaker Trevor Mallard has given a rare tribute to a journalist – Newshub’s outgoing political editor Tova O’Brien.
“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.
“I do want to acknowledge Tova O’Brien leaving.
[…] “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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