Wendy Petrie

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Wendy Petrie is the presenter (since January 2006) of Television New Zealand's One News (with co-presenter Simon Dallow) at 6pm.

She replaced Judy Bailey who had done the job for 18 years, after Head of News and Current Affairs Bill Ralston decided it was time for a new face. Prior that she had been at TVNZ for two years as the "swing" presenter for all the One News bulletins.

Previously, Petrie was the weekend presenter for 3 News before going to Canada to become a newsreader for CTV Newsnet as well as a substitute newsreader on the CTV morning programme Canada AM. She stayed there for three years before returning to New Zealand to start with TVNZ.

Petrie has been seen since early 2004 in almost every One News programme, including the main broadcast. Described as a "disaster magnet," she was filling in over Christmas on One News when the Boxing Day tsunamis happened. She was filling in for Kate Hawkesby (who presents One News Tonight) on the night of the London Bombings and presented live coverage of the event that night.

Petrie is married to director Ross Peebles and has two children, Addison and Liv.

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