Greg Boyed

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Greg Boyed is a television presenter from New Zealand. Best known as the newsreader of TV One's Tonight news. He has also been known to host Breakfast, 6 o'clock News and Q&A. He hosted Seven Sharp in 2013. He is engaged to television reporter Amanda Gillies and has one daughter.

Career

Radio

1991 worked as Chief reporter and newsreader at a radio station in Tauranga. Worked for IRN for four years; one as News and Sport reporter and sports reader in Wellington, and three as sports sub and reader in Auckland. He fills in at Newstalk ZB.

Television

Boyed's first television work was as a general reporter for ATV regional television, where he then moved into the niche of business reporter for The NBR Report.

Moving to TVNZ, Boyed at first worked as a fill-in business reporter and general reporter before working as the Auckland reporter for the investigative programme Target, where he presented from 1999 to 2000.

Presenting:

After Target, in 2005 Boyed became a reporter on the investigative consumer affairs programme Fair Go. He interviewed topical figures on current affairs interview show Q+A intermittently from 2004 to 2012. He also filled in as presenter on current affairs show Close Up. Boyed co-presents Seven Sharp for TVNZ's Channel One.

Newsreading:

Greg Boyed presents the One News Tonight bulletin.

He had also presented the popular One News at 6, and on now defunct TVNZ 7, the News at 8.

Production:

Boyed is also sometimes involved in television production, most notably as Associate Producer of Flipside (2002-2004), an Executive Producer of The Last Word (2003), and Producer of Tonight (2010-2012).

Further reading

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/greg-boyed-442995 http://www.nzonscreen.com/person/greg-boyed

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