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Mar 24, 1929 95 years old
New Zealand journalist
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About Ian Templeton
- Ian Campbell Templeton (born 24 March 1929) is a veteran New Zealand political reporter who celebrated 50 years of reporting the New Zealand Parliament from the press gallery in 2007.
- He has written several books on politics.
- He was the only print journalist to get a weekly one-on-one briefing with Prime Minister Helen Clark.He was educated at King's High School, Dunedin, and completed an economics degree at the University of Otago.
- After university he was a general reporter for two years at the Otago Daily Times. His twin brother Hugh was a former diplomat, public servant and politician, and their brother Malcolm is a diplomat, public servant and author. Templeton was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1994 New Year Honours, and a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2010 New Year Honours, both for services to journalism.In May 2011 he was conferred an honorary doctorate by Massey University; see oration by Colin James.
