Jennie Goodwin

{{Short description|New Zealand journalist}}

{{Distinguish|Ginnifer Goodwin}}

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Jennifer Goodwin (born {{circa|1945}}) is a New Zealand journalist, television newsreader and continuity announcer. On Monday 30 June 1975 she became a news presenter on the newly launched TV-2, making her New Zealand's first female television newsreader,{{Cite web|title=Early evening news on TV|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/tv-history/news|access-date=2021-07-18|website=nzhistory.govt.nz|language=en}} and the first woman within the Commonwealth of Nations to present a prime time news programme.{{cite news|url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/spy-rachel-glucina/news/article.cfm?c_id=1502179&objectid=10612557|title= Jenny Goodwin poses with TVNZ babes|work= New Zealand Herald|first= Rachel|last= Glucina|date= 4 December 2009|access-date= 21 March 2011}} Prior to her work at TV-2, Goodwin worked in radio before moving into television in the 1960s, where she initially worked as a continuity announcer.{{cite web|url= http://www.nzonscreen.com/person/jennie-goodwin|title= Jennie Goodwin (newsreader)|work= NZ On Screen|access-date= 21 March 2011}} In 2009 she was one of several former TVNZ presenters to return to the station to celebrate 40 years of television network news in New Zealand.