Donna-Marie Lever - Master of Ceremonies

Award-winning journalist Donna-Marie Lever has been in Broadcast Journalism for more than 20 years – more recently, 12 years as the Police & Crime Reporter for 1News.  She’s conquered News, Current Affairs, Radio, dodged bullets in East Timor, been on tour with the World Cup All Whites, trained at the BBC and CNN and reported from international conflict and disaster zones like the Boxing Day Tsunami. The former born and bred Aucklander is now in Mid Canterbury and works for TVNZ, CNN and is the weekend breakfast Newsreader for Newstalk ZB, based in the heart of rural Mid-Canterbury.