Tova O’Brien Family: Who are Tova O’Brien Parents?

Tova O’Brien is a New Zealand political journalist. She hosts the Tova Breakfast show on New Zealand news. Let’s explore Tova O’Brien parents.

She is 41 years old.

New Zealand. Tova is of the ethnicity of New Zealand

Tova O’Brien Biography

She was born in 1982/1983 in Papua New Guinea.

After high school, she began studying for a degree at the University of Otago in film and psychology. She did not complete the degree, instead of going overseas to work in Melbourne and London in hospitality.

In 2006 she decided to train as a journalist and completed a qualification at Massey University. Her first journalism role after graduating was at Radio Active in Wellington.

She was earlier a reporter in the parliamentary press gallery in Wellington before joining MediaWorks New Zealand in 2007. In 2016 she was assigned the role of European correspondent for Newshub (MediaWorks’ news division).

In 2018 she returned to Wellington and became Newshub’s political editor, succeeding Patrick Gower. Her style of journalism, according to Gower, is “edgy”, and she attracts a lot of criticism due to her high profile.

In October 2020, her interview with Jami-Lee Ross, co-leader of the Advance New Zealand party garnered 7 million views. She was internationally praised by journalists for preventing Ross from mentioning conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic during the interview.

In 2019, O’Brien won the award for Political Journalist of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards

As a journalist, news reporter Tova O’Brien has good income. Her total net worth is around $1 million and $5 million.

She married her husband Nathan “Nato” Hickey in 2016 in London; they had known each other since 2006 in Wellington. Hickey is a drummer for the Wellington heavy metal band Beastwars.