15 Facts About Carol Hirschfeld

Carol Ann Hirschfeld was born on 1962 and is a New Zealand journalist, documentary maker, broadcaster, producer and media executive.

Carol Hirschfeld is best known for her role as a TV3 News presenter alongside John Campbell from 1998 until 2005.

Carol Hirschfeld's father was an Australian immigrant of German ancestry.

Carol Hirschfeld graduated from the University of Auckland in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Indonesian.

Carol Hirschfeld started her career after going to the ATI journalism school, at what is AUT University, in Auckland.

Carol Hirschfeld was briefly a presenter-reporter on Fair Go and co-presented Crimewatch with Ian Johnstone for several years.

Carol Hirschfeld moved with John Campbell to his then-new 7.00pm weekday current-events show Campbell Live as the producer, taking the role as presenter on Fridays.

Carol Hirschfeld left TV3 in August 2009 to become head of programming at Maori Television.

In 2014, Carol Hirschfeld resigned from Maori Television after a proposed restructuring of the broadcasting service.

Carol Hirschfeld later became Radio New Zealand's head of content, responsible for news, drama, music, spoken features and the broadcaster's international service, Radio New Zealand International.

Carol Hirschfeld implemented RNZ's first foray into multimedia journalism with the launch of Checkpoint with John Campbell in 2016.

Today FM was taken off air in March 2023 and in September 2023 it was announced that Carol Hirschfeld would take up the position of executive producer of TVNZ's Breakfast programme.

In October 2023 Carol Hirschfeld was the Executive Producer for TVNZ's 2023 Election Debates and Election Night coverage.

Carol Hirschfeld is married to Finlay Macdonald, a former editor of the New Zealand Listener and book publisher.

Carol Hirschfeld has been active in a number of charities and trusts: Teach First NZ, the Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust, New Zealand LAM Charitable Trust and Breast Cancer Cure.