Ian Templeton

Ian Campbell Templeton CNZM OBE (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 was the only print journalist to get a weekly one-on-one briefing with Prime Minister Helen Clark.

[1] 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.

Templeton was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1994 New Year Honours,[2] and a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2010 New Year Honours, both for services to journalism.