Greg Boyed's death has left a hole in the world that can not be easily filled. The TVNZ broadcaster was a rock-solid professional, a genuinely fun person to work with and an exceptionally enthusiastic musician. There were have been many tributes to the man from colleagues and politicians that speak to this truth, (even if some of them were from people who actively screwed him over).
It's an awful reminder that there is a person beneath the make-up, reading you the TV news every day. No matter how much they keep it smooth on camera, they have the same fears and worries as anybody else. Their feelings are buried for the neutral tones of a broadcast, but they're still there, and sometimes they get too much.
Many newsrooms across the country have people who worked with Greg during his long media career, and were left genuinely shocked and saddened by the news. Especially at TVNZ's mothership headquarters in Auckland, where that sad day's presenters did an incredible job talking about their workmate's passing. God knows how they kept it all together, but Greg surely would have been proud.
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