Jehan Casinader

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Jehan Casinader
Nationality New Zealand
Alma materBA (Victoria University of Wellington)
OccupationJournalist
Employer TVNZ

Jehan Casinader is a New Zealand journalist and television presenter. [1]

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Early life

Jehan was born in New Zealand to Sri Lankan immigrant parents and raised in Lower Hutt. [2] [3] [4] His father had been a print journalist in Sri Lanka, and worked at The Dominion Post after moving to New Zealand, so news and current affairs was a constant component of Jehan's home life and upbringing. [1] [5] [6]

I think I was four years old, my parents tell me, when I first told them that I wanted to be a reporter. [6]

Jehan's first television appearance was on the game show Small Talk hosted by Jason Gunn in 1997. [5] At the age of 13 Jehan successfully pitched a story on The Lord of the Rings to the Holmes programme on TV One. [7] [6] Jehan then began writing for youth magazine Tearaway, which gave him the opportunity at the age of 15 to interview then Prime Minister Helen Clark. [6] Jehan went on to successfully pitch multiple features to The New Zealand Herald as a 16 year old. [1] [6]

Jehan studied Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Public Policy and International Relations) at Victoria University of Wellington. [1] [8]

Journalism career

After finishing university Jehan was employed on TVNZ's Close Up and remained on staff when the programme rebooted as Seven Sharp. [1] In 2016 Jehan moved to TVNZ’s current affairs programme, Sunday , becoming their youngest-ever regular reporter. [3]

Jehan produced and presented the talk show The Inside Word in 2018 which aired on TVNZ’s Duke channel, tackling tough topics such as negative body image, alcoholism and cyberbullying. [9]

Jehan won 'Best Team Video' at the 2018 Voyager Media Awards for his team's coverage of the 2017 Edgecumbe flood. [10] Jehan was also named 'Reporter of the Year' at the 2018 New Zealand Television Awards. [11] [5]

In 2019 Jehan presented an episode of What Next? on TVNZ 1 exploring future advances in medicine. [12] [5]

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