Kamahl Santamaria
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Kamahl Santamaria is a New Zealand television journalist, and currently a news anchor at Al Jazeera English, based in Doha, Qatar. He was born and raised in Auckland.
Kamahl began his career in 1998 at TV3 in New Zealand, as a news and sport reporter. He moved on to become a sport line-up producer on the nightly news bulletin 3 News.
His time at TV3 culminated in six months of work on the 2001 Atlantic Rowing Race, on which TV3 had exclusive broadcast rights for the New Zealand entry. This included coverage from the race finish in Barbados.
En route to Barbados, Kamahl was grounded on the runway at New York's JFK Airport when American Airlines Flight 587 crashed in the suburb of Queens. He reported from the scene - the only New Zealand or Australian reporter to do so.
From late 2001 Kamahl was based in Melbourne, Australia, working for Sky News Australia. He established and ran the Melbourne bureau for Sky News' business programming, based at the Seven Network's digital broadcast centre in Docklands.
Kamahl reported, presented and produced for the nightly show Sky Business Report with David Koch for three years, before moving on to New York, London, and finally Qatar.
