Richard Harman is a New Zealand political journalist and broadcaster.[1]
Harman studied English, Architecture, and Economics atAuckland University, but was as heavily involved in student journalism and politics as with study. Harman started his professional career as a reporter withThe Dominion, where he worked as a reporter from 1972 to 1977. From here, he moved toTelevision New Zealand, where he was a news and current affairs reporter and political editor, working on current affairs seriesEye Witness News andAssignment.[2] Since 1999 he has founded and headed the political news production company Front Page.
Front Page, under Harman, produced the weekly TVNZ programmeAgenda and the weekendTV3 showThe Nation, as well as providing television production facilities for a range of New Zealand companies and government agencies.
The documentaryFive Days in July, about the1984 New Zealand constitutional crisis, 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,[3] and in 1998 was awarded an Oxford University Fellowship by theReuters Institute for the Study of Journalism atGreen Templeton College, and has completed a Master of International Relations course atVictoria University.[2]
In 2019, Harman was a judge for theVoyager Media Awards.[4]
Harman's political news websitePolitik is regarded as a well-informed source for political analysis and is regularly quoted by established news outlets.[5][6][7]