Carol Hirschfeld Biography
Carol Hirschfeld is a journalist, documentary filmmaker, presenter, producer, and media executive from New Zealand. She is well known as a TV3 News presenter who worked alongside John Campbell from 1998 until 2005.
How old is Carol Hirschfeld? – Age
She is 61 years old as of 2023. She was born in 1962 in Auckland, New Zealand. Her real name is Carol Ann Hirschfeld.
Carol Hirschfeld Family – Education
Hirschfeld is Ngti Porou, and when she was ten, she lost her mother Ngawiki. Her father was a German-born Australian immigrant. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Indonesian from the University of Auckland in 1984. She began her career after attending the ATI journalism school, which is now part of AUT University in Auckland.
Carol Hirschfeld Husband
Hirschfeld is married to Finlay Macdonald, a book publisher and former editor of the New Zealand Listener. The couple has two children and lives in Auckland.
Carol Hirschfeld Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $6 million.
Carol Hirschfeld TV3
She left TVNZ in 1998 to work as a newsreader on TV3’s 6.00 pm bulletin with John Campbell. They also conceived and produced Home Truths, a late-night interview show, and A Queen’s Tour, a travel series that retraced Queen Elizabeth II’s 1953 royal tour of New Zealand. Hirschfeld and Campbell retired in 2005 and were succeeded by Hilary Barry and Mike McRoberts. Hirschfeld joined John Campbell’s new 7 p.m. weekday current-events show Campbell Live as producer, taking over as presenter on Fridays. In August 2009, she departed TV3 to become the head of programming at Mor Television.
Carol Hirschfeld Today FM
She announced her departure from Stuff in January 2022 to become executive producer of Mediaworks’ Tova O’Brien radio show, Today FM.
Carol Hirschfeld Career
Hirschfeld was recruited by Radio New Zealand and shipped off work at Lakeland FM in Taupo in 1984. Following this she filled in as a sub-supervisor, first with the Auckland Star paper, then, at that point, with TVNZ where she ultimately turned into an ongoing undertakings chief/maker for Bleeding edge and Task. She was likewise momentarily a moderator journalist on Fair Go and co-gave Crimewatch Ian Johnstone for quite some time.
In 2014, Hirschfeld left Māori TV after a proposed rebuilding of the telecom administration. She later became Radio New Zealand’s head of content, answerable for news, show, music, expressed highlights and the telecaster’s worldwide help, Radio New Zealand Global.
She carried out RNZ’s initial introduction to sight and sound news-casting with the send off of Designated spot with John Campbell in 2016. On 27 Walk 2018, she surrendered after questions were brought up in parliament about whether a gathering she’d had with Broadcasting Clergyman Clare Curran had been true etc. Radio New Zealand was thusly expected to address its record of the gathering at a Parliamentary Select Board of trustees.
In June 2018 Hirschfeld was delegated Head of Video/Sound and Content Associations at news site Stuff. In January 2022 she declared she would pass on Stuff to take on a job as chief maker on Mediaworks’ Tova O’Brien public broadcast, Today FM.