Richard Harman is a New Zealand political journalist and broadcaster.

Career

Harman studied English, Architecture, and Economics at

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, but was as heavily involved in student journalism and politics as with study. Harman started his professional career as a reporter with The Dominion, where he worked as a reporter from 1972 to 1977. From here, he moved to

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, where he was a news and current affairs reporter and political editor, working on current affairs series ''Eye Witness News'' and ''Assignment''.Front Page - The Team
, FrontPage.co.nz. Retrieved 3 May 2013. Since 1999 he has founded and headed the political news production company Front Page. Front Page, under Harman, produced the weekly TVNZ programme ''

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'' and the weekend

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show ''The Nation'', as well as providing television production facilities for a range of New Zealand companies and government agencies. The documentary ''Five Days in July'', about the

1984 New Zealand constitutional crisis The New Zealand constitutional crisis of 1984 arose following the 1984 general election, and was caused by a major currency crisis. The crisis led the incoming government to review New Zealand's constitutional structures, which resulted in the ...

, which was scripted and presented by Harman for TVNZ, won the Best Documentary category at the 1995 New Zealand Film and TV Awards. Harman has life membership and was former chairman of the New Zealand parliamentary press gallery, and in 1998 was awarded an Oxford University Fellowship by the

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, and has completed a Master of International Relations course at Victoria University. In 2019, Harman was a judge for the

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. Harman's political news website ''Politik'' is regarded as a well-informed source for political analysis and is regularly quoted by established news outlets.

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Career

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