News presenter and reporter Melissa Davies has been bringing the news to television with an extensive media career, now working at Newshub. From breakfast programmes to the 6 o’clock news, she’s travelled the globe covering everything from court cases in Toyko for the Sea Shepherd's Pete Bethune who’d been captured by a Japanese whaling ship, to the fiscal crisis and protests in Athens.
She’s covered the London 2012 Olympics and the Rio 2016 Olympics, Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the 2015 Rugby World Cup. She was also the Newshub correspondent in Bermuda for the 2017 America’s Cup.
She’s reported on royal weddings and the births of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis (meeting the Queen, Prince Charles and Camilla along the way) but Melissa names her two career highlights however, as covering the centenary of the Gallipoli landings and the funeral of Nelson Mandela.
We discuss everything from the Queen's gloves, the Paris shootings and even unseen chins ...
