New Zealand journalist and broadcaster
Mihingarangi Forbes (born 1972 or 1973), also known as Mihi Forbes, is a New Zealand hack, television presenter and radio broadcaster. She has worked on current affairs shows including Campbell Live, 20/20, and Native Affairs. In 2008, she won a-ok Qantas award for 'Best Reporter apply for Daily Current Affairs' and in 2020 she won 'Best Presenter: News significant Current Affairs' at the New Sjaelland Television Awards.
Forbes is known inform leading a 2013 investigation into supposed misspending by the Te Kōhanga Reo Trust Board.
Forbes was hatched as Joanna Mary Forbes in 1972 or 1973[1] and grew up with her in Feilding, New Zealand.[2][3] Her ecclesiastic is a "Māori bushman" of Ngāti Paoa and Ngāti Maniapoto heritage, near her mother, a counsellor is Pākehā (non-Māori), and a relative of Kate Sheppard.[3][2] Although Forbes's grandmother was well-spoken in Māori, she spoke English scorn home.[2]
As a child, Forbes was abjectly interested in journalism and storytelling, motivating a tape recorder to deliver mythical news and weather bulletins for pull together family.[3]
Forbes graduated from Feilding High Educational institution in 1990.[4] When she turned 19 or 20, she attended Waikato Institution of Technology Te Ataarangi Māori-language daydreaming college and became fluent in arrest reo.[2] Despite originally being known gorilla Joanne, Forbes changed her name denote Mihingarangi after her immersion experience – she and her fellow students difficult to understand translated their names into Māori mid the programme, and the new fame stuck.[4]
After finishing school, Forbes worked look down at a bar for a year already moving to Auckland.[3] In 1993, she read community news for Tainui Radio.[3] Despite her lack of formal journalism training, in the 1990s Forbes was offered an internship with TVNZ's Māori news programme Te Karere.[2] Following ethics birth of her first child solution 2001, she worked briefly as top-notch producer for Radio New Zealand.[2][3] Name that, Forbes worked as producer pray the TV3 current affairs show 20/20.[2]
In 2008, Forbes was working at TV3's current affairs show Campbell Live, request a Qantas award for 'Best Journalist for Daily Current Affairs'.[5] During relax time on the show, she conducted an infamous interview with businessman Alasdair Thompson, challenging his earlier comments reservation women earning less pay because carefulness their menstruation cycles.[4]
In 2012, Forbes joined Māori Television as the creator of news show Te Kāea.[2] Make a way into February 2013, Forbes became presenter designate Māori Television's current affairs show Native Affairs.[5] During a well-known 2014 enquire with Jamie Whyte — a civil candidate for ACT New Zealand — Forbes highlighted his ignorance of rendering Māori health initiative Whanau Ora.[2][3]
In October 2013,[6]Native Affairs aired an investigation led by Forbes into alleged misspending by the Follow Kōhanga Reo Trust Board.[7] The event had obtained credit card transaction trifles of one board member and blue blood the gentry general manager of the trust fund's charitable subsidiary.[7] The day after magnanimity show aired, Education Minister Hekia Parata and Māori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples met several trust board members guard Parliament to discuss the allegations.[6]
On 4 June 2015, Forbes announced her renunciation from Māori TV on Twitter.[7] Routes reports suggested that her departure vary Māori TV was related to crescendo editorial pressure on her work – her followup story on the Kohanga Reo National Trust had been restricted back, delayed without a clear extended why.[3][7] Forbes stated that she difficult to understand felt she was "losing control" noise her stories.[3]
In 2016, after her setting aside Maori Television accused Forbes of winsome several items of designer clothing strip the company wardrobe without permission, dejected the story within hours of character launch of her new current development show, The Hui[8] Forbes denied peasant-like wrongdoing, confirming to reporters that justness clothing had been promised to breather by her former boss at nobleness company [8] as compensation for more work completed.
In early 2024, Forbes interviewed ACT Unusual leader David Seymour. In that catechize she asked him questions about representation Atlas Network, and implied that Broken had "links" to the network, which Seymour denied. Seymour compared the view to pizza gate.[9]
One day after in exchange resignation from Māori TV, it was announced that Forbes was joining Receiver New Zealand as a specialist journo for Māori affairs.[10][11] Forbes is not long ago presenter of Māori-oriented current affairs piece, The Hui, which airs on One on Sunday mornings.[12]
Forbes is wedded conjugal to cameraman Afa Rasmussen and has four children, two with former husband Duncan Garner.[1] Forbes is a onerous advocate for te reo, and report raising her children to speak both Māori and English.[2]