Jack Tame on ‘that interview’ with Winston Peters, his old next door neighbour Wayne Brown and journalism’s future

We’re taking a look back at some of our favourite and most popular Entertainment stories of 2024 , giving you a chance to catch up on some of the great reading you might have missed this year. In this story from July, Jack Tame, who is at the top of his profession, tells Greg Bruce he knows how close the bottom can be. On a Friday night in May, at this country’s most prestigious journalism awards, in a room populated by the best of the country’s remaining journalists, Jack Tame was declared political journalist of the year.

It was the first time he’d won anything at the country’s most prestigious journalism awards. Until that moment, he’d doubted that other journalists even saw him as a journalist. He kissed his wife, buttoned his perfect tux, swaggered to the stage like a mid 90s Liam Gallagher and, once there, bestrode it.



Behind him, the giant screen began playing his now-famous pre-election interview with Winston Peters ..