Cameron Bennett is one of New Zealand’s most experienced international journalists.

He has a wide-ranging journalistic career from 25 years of television reporting. His strong interest in World affairs has grown from numerous international assignments throughout his professional career.

He was Television New Zealand's Europe Correspondent 1991-95.His extensive international reporting has included the Bosnian civil war, working undercover in Zimbabwe, inside the rebel zone of Ivory Coast and the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka.

Cameron's broadcast news career highlights include the 9/11 bombings in New York and Washington DC, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and war reporting from the Balkans to the Rwandan genocide, from Somalia to Palestine, Iraq to Afghanistan. He has reported on the historic post-apartheid elections in South Africa, the attempted coup against Boris Yeltsin in Moscow, extensively in Western Europe, the Pacific and in South-East Asia – including with ethnic rebels in Burma-Myanmar and the conflict in East Timor.

He is highly experienced in commercial, long-format feature story-telling. In acknowledging the radically-changing landscape of electronic news gathering, he believes this form of magazine reportage offers a prestigious and effective addition to information programming.

Contact: Jess Milne