Tova O’Brien Biography
Tova O’Brien is a political journalist and broadcaster from New Zealand. She is Stuff Digital’s main political correspondent, having previously worked for Newshub and the now-defunct Today FM.
How old is Tova O’Brien? – Age
She is 40 years old as of 2023. She was born in 1983 in Papua New Guinea.
Tova O’Brien Family – Education
Her mother, a British journalist, and father, a helicopter pilot from New Zealand, met while working in the country. The family relocated to New Zealand when O’Brien was six months old. Her parents divorced when she was three, and she was reared in Wellington by her mother.
After high school, she enrolled in a film and psychology degree program at the University of Otago. She did not finish her degree, instead travelling overseas to work in hospitality in Melbourne and London. In 2006, she decided to pursue a career as a journalist and attended Massey University. Her first job as a journalist after graduation was at Radio Active in Wellington.
Tova O’Brien Husband
O’Brien married Nathan “Nato” Hickey in London in 2016 after meeting in Wellington in 2006. Hickey is the drummer for Beastwars, a Wellington heavy metal band.
Tova O’Brien Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Tova O’Brien Newshub
She was appointed European reporter for Newshub, MediaWorks’ news section, in 2016. She returned to Wellington in 2018 to take over as Newshub’s political editor, succeeding Patrick Gower. According to Gower, her journalism style is “edgy,” and her prominent visibility invites a lot of criticism. In January 2022, she departed Discovery and her position at Newshub.
Tova O’Brien Today FM
O’Brien’s former employer, Mediaworks, rehired her in November 2021 to host the breakfast radio show on new discussion station Today FM. Today FM ceased broadcasting on March 30, 2023, shortly after O’Brien interrupted the mid-morning Duncan Garner Today show to announce the station’s demise, with O’Brien remarking, “They have fucked us.”
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Tova O’Brien Breakfast
O’Brien’s former company, Mediaworks, rehired her to anchor the breakfast radio show in November 2021. O’Brien and Garner, who had addressed the station’s future during the ‘Tova’ breakfast show, continued to criticize Mediaworks until the show was abruptly removed from the air and replaced by automated music. Later that day, the station’s demise was verified.
Tova O’Brie Career
O’Brien was a columnist in the parliamentary press display in Wellington prior to joining MediaWorks New Zealand in 2007. In 2016 she was alloted the job of European journalist for Newshub, the news division of MediaWorks. In 2018, she got back to Wellington and turned into Newshub’s political proofreader, succeeding Patrick Gower. Her style of reporting, as per Gower, is “tense”, and she draws in a great deal of analysis because of her prominence.
In October 2020, O’Brien’s meeting with Jami-Lee Ross, co-head of the Development New Zealand party, gathered 7 million perspectives. She was globally commended by writers for keeping Ross from referencing paranoid ideas about the Coronavirus pandemic during the meeting. O’Brien had pursued a restriction of exchange condition her Revelation contract, which kept her from joining Mediaworks for quite a long time. Be that as it may, the Work Relations Authority dismissed her case and requested O’Brien to pay $2,000 for breaking her business understanding.