Education
Barry attended Queen Margaret College in Wellington from 1980 to 1987, and was head girl in her final year. She later completed a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington and a Certificate of Journalism.
Barry attended Queen Margaret College in Wellington from 1980 to 1987, and was head girl in her final year. She later completed a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington and a Certificate of Journalism.
Barry began her career as a reporter for radio 89.3 TODAY FM (now More FM Wairarapa). She became a TV3 news reporter in Christchurch in 1993 then moved to Auckland to work as a reporter on 3 News. She read the morning news on radio station More FM and participated in the morning shows for 10 years.
Barry presented 3 News on weekends for six years, before presenting the weeknight 3 News.
Former regular anchors John Campbell and Carol Hirschfeld moved on to respectively present and produce the 7 pm current affairs show, Campbell Live, in March 2005. At the 2006 Qantas Television Awards she was voted Favourite New Zealand Female Personality.
On 9 February 2009, Barry became news anchor on the RadioLIVE breakfast show hosted by Marcus Lush. She hosted The Coca Cola Christmas in the Park in December 2011.
On 4 February 2016, Barry laughed uncontrollably when delivering news report after reading a news story about the former Malaysian diplomat who admitted going to a young woman"s home with no pants on and defecating on her step before leaving during The Paul Henry Show and this is not the first time she laugh when reporting news.
This incident become featured internationally. The video uploaded by Paul Henry received about 270,000 views on Youtube in 2 days.