From here, he moved to Television New Zealand, where he was a news and current affairs reporter and political editor, working on current affairs series Eye Witness News and Assignment.
[2] Since 1999 he has founded and headed the political news production company Front Page.
Front Page, under Harman, produced the weekly TVNZ programme Agenda and the weekend TV3 show The Nation, as well as providing television production facilities for a range of New Zealand companies and government agencies.
The documentary Five Days in July, about the 1984 New Zealand constitutional crisis, which was scripted and presented by Harman for TVNZ, won the Best Documentary category at the 1995 New Zealand Film and TV Awards.
Harman has life membership and was former chairman of the New Zealand parliamentary press gallery,[3] and in 1998 was awarded an Oxford University Fellowship by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Green Templeton College, and has completed a Master of International Relations course at Victoria University.