When Rotorua's Kristin Hall was a young girl, she would cut square holes out of cardboard boxes pretending to be the likes of Judy Bailey on TV.
Now, at 23, she's ditched the cardboard and has opted for the real thing, working as a roving reporter for TVNZ.
After finishing at Western Heights High School, she moved to the Big Smoke to study journalism at the Auckland University of Technology and landed an internship at TVNZ's Auckland newsroom, and later, a job there.
Last year, she moved to Wellington to take a job as TVNZ's Breakfast reporter, a role that's given her the chance to report on anything from breaking news to the royal tour.
Hall said when she was growing up she discovered news was more than the face that presented it, and she decided she wanted to be a reporter rather than a news anchor at an early age.