Simon Mercep

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Simon Mercep
Born1961
Nationality New Zealand
Occupation(s)Television and radio journalist
Father Ivan Mercep

Simon Mercep (born 1960) [1] is a New Zealand television and radio journalist. After a long career at Radio New Zealand and other news outlets, [1] he was reporting for 1News in 2024. [2]

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Biography

Mercep is the son of noted architect Ivan Mercep, and is of mixed Croatian and Polish descent. [3]

Starting his career in 1983 [4] as a trainee journalist with Radio New Zealand, his early career included reporting in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. [1] He also worked as a print journalist in Cyprus. [3] [5]

Mercep has gone on to work in both television and radio in New Zealand, acting as reporter on TVNZ's One News , Holmes , Sunday (since 2008), and Fair Go (2001–07), as well as Radio New Zealand's Morning Report (2010–14), and more recently Afternoons (2014–15). [3] In his last year on Morning Report while reporting with Geoff Robinson, the program won a 2014 New Zealand Radio Award for best weekly or daily feature. [6]

He left RNZ in July 2015, and he said he intended to take some time off before announcing future plans. [7] After leaving Radio New Zealand in mid 2015, but continued in his roles with Television New Zealand. [8] [9]

Since 2015 Mercep has produced and co-hosted Crave!, a film and music review podcast and website, with Steve McCabe. [10]

Since 2021 Mercep has worked as a casual on-air reporter and story producer for TVNZ. [11] He was reporting for 1News in April 2024. [2] [12]

Personal life

As of 2011, he lived in Auckland with his partner Sharon Harvey and daughter. [1]

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