Barbara dreaver biography

          Barbara dreaver fiji...

          Barbara Dreaver

          New Zealand journalist

          Barbara Helen DreaverONZM is a Kiribati-born New Zealand broadcast journalist.[1]

          Biography

          Dreaver was born on Banaba, a coral atoll in Kiribati.

          Barbara dreaver news

        1. Barbara Dreaver has been TVNZ's face of the Pacific.
        2. Barbara dreaver fiji
        3. Born and brought up in Kiribati and New Zealand I have more than 30 years experience specialising in the Pacific region.
        4. Dreaver was born in Kiribati, her mother's homeland and grew up on the island of Tarawa, she also has close family in Fiji, Tonga, the Cook.

          5. Her mother, Lavinia, was from Banaba and her father, Peter, was a schoolteacher from New Zealand, stationed on the atoll as an adult education officer under the Volunteer Service Abroad scheme.[2][3] The family moved to the main island of Tarawa when she was young, and when she was 10 years old, moved to New Zealand.[4]

          Dreaver studied education at the University of Auckland, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

          She then completed a Pacific Island journalism course at Manukau Institute of Technology, but struggled to find work in journalism in New Zealand.[4] In 1990, she moved to Rarotonga and began her career in journalism as a reporter with the Cook Islands News.

          She later co-owned and edited a weekly newspaper, Cook Islands Pre