air, and Campbell had decided to leave MediaWorks, despite having been offered a position co-hosting a replacement current affairs programme. Only one year of the offered three-year extension was to have been presenting Campbell Live, and the network was insisting the programme become more entertainment-driven and reduce its concentration on core Campbell Live subjects, such as Christchurch after the earthquakes, child poverty, Pike River, etc. The final programme aired on 29 May 2015. Campbell and Carol Hirschfeld made two series of the interview programme Home Truths, and in 2004 they made a 12-part series touring New Zealand called A Queen's Tour, following the route of Queen Elizabeth's visit in 1953–1954. Campbell also hosted the Saturday Morning programme on Radio New Zealand for two years, from 2000 to 2002. Campbell appeared in the sixth series of the successful New Zealand TV series Outrageous Fortune and frequently appeared in the animated series bro'Town. Campbell took over as host of the Radio New Zealand current affairs programme Checkpoint in January 2016. His final appearance for Checkpoint was broadcast on 14 September 2018. He subsequently moved to TVNZ, becoming a roving reporter across the company's news and current affairs output, as well as an occasional fill-in presenter on 1 News. Campbell made a cameo appearance in the 2016 New Zealand film Hunt for the Wilderpeople. In April 2019, he joined Breakfast replacing Jack Tame who moved to Q+A. In 2021 Campbell hosted a 1 News special Anger, Anxiety & Us which investigated increasing division in New Zealand society. In April 2022 he announced he was finishing up with Breakfast to take up the new role of TVNZ chief correspondent. Awards Campbell has twice won the Qantas Media Award for Best Investigative Current Affairs and for Best Presenter, as well as winning the Best Presenter category twice for the New Zealand Film and Television Awards. Campbell won the Best Current Affairs Presenter category in the TV Guide "Best on the Box" Awards in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015. In 2013, Campbell was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Victoria University. Campbell was named Presenter of the Year 2017 in the Association for International Broadcasting's 13th annual global awards. And in the 2017 New York Festivals World's Best Radio Programs Awards, Campbell won a Bronze Award in the category of Best News Anchor/Reporter. In 2019, while filming a story in Samoa, with Producer Adrian Stevanon, for