Barbara Dreaver
Barbara Dreaver is the Television New Zealand Pacific Correspondent . She was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2024 for services to investigative journalism and Pacific communities has received numerous accolades including two awards at New Zealand's Voyager Media Awards for her coverage of the 2019 Samoa measles outbreak andi n November 2022 she was named Reporter of the Year at the New Zealand Television Awards.. She is of Kiribati-Cook Islands-Kiwi heritage.