Oriini Kaipara


Oriini Kaipara is a New Zealand broadcaster, journalist and translator and interpreter of te reo Māori. In 2019 she was the first person to present mainstream television news with a moko kauae tā moko.

Biography

Kaipara was born in Whakatāne, in 1983. She attended Kura Kaupapa Māori, and trained at South Seas Film and Television School in 2002. In 2017, the Māori Television programme Native Affairs revealed she has essentially pure Māori DNA, despite having some Pākehā ancestry.

Career

Kaipara is a presenter on the TVNZ 1 programme 1 News at Midday and the news and current affairs show Te Karere, and has previously worked for Māori Television and Mai FM. In 2018, she won the Voyager Best Māori Affairs Reporter for her work on Native Affairs.