Marcia Russell
Deceased Person
– 2012
Who was Marcia Russell?
Marcia Grace Russell, OBE, was a New Zealand journalist and documentary-maker.
Russell started out as a cadet reporter for the New Zealand Herald in 1959, then going on to found Thursday, a magazine in 1968.
In 1975, she joined South Pacific Television, presenting the television show Speakeasy and reporting for News at Ten.
She went on to work on award-winning shows such as Landmarks and The New Zealand Wars, for which she received an award in scriptwriting.
In the 1996 New Year Honours, Russell was made an OBE for services to journalism, and she became the first recipient of the Academy of Film and Television Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.
She died on 1 December 2012 after a short illness.
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