TV3 reporter Carly Kirkwood is the new Nightline presenter.
Nightline's former newsreader, Carolyn Robinson, left three weeks ago to have her second child and will eventually return to read the weekend news.
Kirkwood, 27, who has worked as a reporter at TV3 for the past two years, said she was delighted.
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