By LOUISA CLEAVE
No amount of self-congratulatory advertising from TVNZ can cover the fact its top-rating One Network News was not even a contender for best news programme at the broadcasting awards.
The finalists were 3 News, which won the honour on Friday, and its late-night stablemate, Nightline.
TVNZ has been proud to point out in the highly priced advertising pages of newspapers and magazines that it took two out of every three journalist awards at the Qantas Media Awards for radio and television journalism.
But where was One's news, week after week the country's most-watched television programme?
News bosses may have felt a little better when Judy Bailey and Richard Long were judged the country's best presenters. It cost only $6.5 million for them to find that out.
The big winner was 60 Minutes reporter Ian Sinclair, who won best news reporter and the Asia 2000 Journalism Award.
Not all awards went to the big guys: best science/technology story went to Anabel Otway from Prime TV, best crime/justice story to Katy Gosset from Canterbury TV.
Radio New Zealand cleaned up in the radio categories, with Chris Wikaira winning the Bill Toft Memorial Trust Fellowship and Lauren McKenzie taking senior reporter and best news story for coverage of the Kirsty Bentley murder. Hewitt Humphrey was named best newsreader.
TV One news out of the frame
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