Patrick Gower had a Roman Catholic upbringing and schooling, having attended St Joseph's Catholic School and Francis Douglas Memorial College.
14 Facts About Patrick Gower
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Patrick Gower graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics from Victoria University of Wellington in 1999, having chosen that university because of its proximity to Parliament.
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Patrick Gower started his journalism career working the graveyard shift at The New Zealand Herald, later becoming one of the newspaper's two police reporters.
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Patrick Gower subsequently moved to the UK and worked at Jane's Police Review.
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Patrick Gower has said that the transition involved a big change in reporting styles:.
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Patrick Gower took over as political editor of 3 News from Duncan Garner in November 2012.
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Patrick Gower maintained this role until Newshub's closure in 2024.
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Patrick Gower hosted the King's Birthday programming and filled in for Kathryn Ryan on RNZ National's "Nine to Noon" programme.
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Patrick Gower co-hosted the summer edition of RNZ National's "Morning Report" for two weeks in January 2025.
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On 18 August 2014, Patrick Gower appeared in a skit by the University of Auckland Law School's comedy revue, presenting a live report for 3 News in the campus's library.
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Patrick Gower recreated the video in the same location as part of the announcement of his hiring by Stuff ten years later, with the profanity bleeped out.
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In 2019, Gower featured in a two part documentary series Patrick Gower: On Weed where he explored issues related to medicinal and recreational cannabis before the 2020 New Zealand cannabis referendum.
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In July 2021, Patrick Gower broke the story on a leaked draft script of the controversial They Are Us movie, which was based on the Christchurch mosque shootings.
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Patrick Gower was emotionally affected by the script and called upon the film's director and writer Andrew Niccol to withdraw from the film production.