Susan Wood

Who is Susan Wood?

Susan Wood is a New Zealand television presenter who hosted TV ONE's nightly news and current affairs show Close Up.

The daughter of Alex Wood a previous journalist/editor of the Sunday Star.

Wood began her career in journalism in 1979 as a print reporter for the Bay of Plenty Times before moving on to The New Zealand Herald in Auckland to work as the court and then police reporter.

She began her career with TVNZ in 1985 as a reporter for the then-network news and the regional news show Top Tux. She was the first Australia correspondent for ONE Network News.

Wood also hosted the lifestyle series' Open Home and New Zealand Living, was Paul Holmes' regular fill-in on Holmes, presented Frontline and Assignment and was the original presenter of Midday and Breakfast. She co-presented Breakfast with Mike Hosking for two-and-a-half years until she left the early-morning show to host Today Live, which ran for two years.

On 2 November 2004 Paul Holmes resigned from TVNZ and announced he was moving to a rival TV company, Prime Television. The Holmes show ended immediately and was replaced by a new current affairs show, Close Up, which was the same as Holmes in format, with Susan Wood as the new host.