New Zealand Journalist Becomes The First Maori Woman With Face Tattoo To Anchor Primetime News. It’s What We Call Breaking Stereotypes!
I’ve been watching the news for as long as I can remember. And just like every other industry, the news industry also has some unsaid rules regarding the beauty standards it follows. For instance, a news anchor, especially a primetime news anchor, needs to look a certain way for them to be given this position. But very recently a news journalist from New Zealand created history by becoming the first woman with a Maori face tattoo to anchor a primetime news bulletin. This woman broke so many stereotypes with that one news reading!
Oriini Kaipara, a New Zealand journalist, read the Newshub Live’s 6 pm news bulletin on December 25th, 2021 with a Maori face tattoo. In fact, this is not the first time she’s made headlines. Previously she made headlines for appearing on television with a traditional lower chin tattoo that is often seen among the Maori women known as moko kauae.
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The New Zealand journalist took to her Instagram to share her achievement. Oriini Kaipara shared snippets of her first bulletin and wrote, “Special announcement: On Christmas Day I’ll be reading the 6pm news for Newshub. It will be the first of many nights I will have the honour of presenting our prime news to audiences around the country and globe. I’m rostered on that whole week and will be around with our NH whānau all summer ? I’m excited. Also – congratulations to @mrmikemcroberts on receiving the honour of the 2021 Bill Toft Award, and all the best with the new AM Show from next year onwards, @melchangreen”
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As per reports, Oriini Kaipara had done a DNA test which showed that she was 100% Maori. The journalist from New Zealand in an interview also said, “I’m very much aware that I’m the first [with moko kauae] to anchor a six o’clock primetime news bulletin. That is always at the back of my mind, that every step I make is like breaking through a glass ceiling.”
What I genuinely love about this woman is that she has accepted her cultural identity but has not allowed that to stop her from achieving her dreams. She has broken stereotypes and inspired women from across castes, communities, races, ethnicities, etc. to achieve what they truly dream of.
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