Jack Tame Trump's Rise to Power

Standing at Hillary Clinton’s election night ‘victory’ party in 2016, Jack Tame realised the real winner was elsewhere. Donald Trump’s rise to power exposed his blind spots as a reporter and fundamentally changed his journalism. Watch the video version of the episode here. On election night 2016, Jack Tame joined the throngs of media at Hillary Clinton’s victory party. But as the results filtered through, it quickly became clear they were in the wrong place. The real party was across town. Underdog Donald Trump had won. Like many journalists, Jack had overlooked the discontent precipitating Trump's rise to power, and the experience rattled him – drawing attention to his blind spots as a reporter and fundamentally changing the way he covered major stories. In this conversation with Rev Frank Ritchie, Jack Tame speaks about being 1NEWS’ US correspondent in the Trump era, the radio skills that have helped him excel on TV, and how he landed a chance interview with Sir David Attenborough in Antarctica. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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Jack Tame Trump's Rise to Power is an episode from re_covering by RNZ.

This episode is 00:56:28 long.

This episode was published on Aug 26, 2025.

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